archiveMarch 2019

Says around 600 people died in election-related violence Nigeria’s elections need serious reform after being marred by violence, systemic failings and low turnout, the European Union observer mission said on Monday. The EU commented after elections last Saturday for governors in 29 of 36 states, and two weeks after a...

  Over 100,000 aggrieved corps members who served as ad-hoc staff in the recently conducted general elections have dragged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to court, over unpaid N7 billion allowances. The case is currently before a Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court, Gwagwalada. According to the aggrieved corps...

The Centre for Law Enforcement and Education, (CLEEN) Foundation is out with detailed report on the ongoing Nigerian election stating that many Nigerians were killed in electoral violence during Saturday’s governorship and state house of assembly elections. It also noted that the process was also fraught with widespread irregularities including...

The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said Nigeria’s active mobile subscribers dropped to 162,032,481 million in the fourth quarter, 2018 from 172,824,239 million and 162,522,772 million recorded in the third and second quarter, 2018, respectively. The NBS disclosed this in its “Telecommunication Data (Q3 and Q4 2018)” released on its...

The outgoing Catholic Archbishop of Abuja, His Eminence John Cardinal Onaiyekan, on Monday frowned at the violence and militarisation of the polls across the nation. He said election is supposed to be an opportunity for Nigerians to choose their leaders, and not a battlefield. Onaiyekan said this at the opening...

The Human Rights Writers Association (HURIWA) has waded into the controversy trailing the activities of the Nigerian Army during the Saturday governorship polls, especially in Rivers State and called on politicians and stakeholders not to rubbish the military institution in the country. HURIWA also urged the Chief of Army Staff,...

Lagos State Governor-elect, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu said he was confident that the people of the State would choose courage over fear in the just concluded gubernatorial election. INEC said Sanwo-Olu polled a total of 739,445 votes to defeat his main challenger, Mr. Jimi Agbaje of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP),...

Ethiopian Airlines on Monday confirmed it has successfully recovered the data and voice recorders on the crashed aircraft that killed all 157 aboard on Sunday. “After tedious search by the rescue and investigation team for the black box of a 737-Max 8 plane, Ethiopian Airlines announces that the Digital Flight...

  Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) Chairman, in Kano State,  Rabiu Bichi, has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), to declare the party’s gubernatorial candidate, Alhaji Abba Kabir winner to avoid eruption of violence. The PDP chairman made the warning on Monday while briefing newsmen on the suspension of the...

A poultry expert, Mr Oduware Efe, has warned against the negative effect of imported frozen chicken consumption and encouraged Nigerians to patronise locally processed chicken. Oduware, made this call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigerian on Monday in Lagos. He said that there were multiple inherent dangers...