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SERAP also urged INEC to “promptly and effectively prosecute those arrested, and bring to justice anyone who sponsored, aided and abetted them.” The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has given Professor Mahmood Yakubu, Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) seven days to “gather information about reports of vote-buying, undue influence, intimidation, ballot box snatching, and other electoral offences by the three leading political parties in the just concluded Ekiti State governorship election.”   SERAP also urged INEC to “promptly and effectively prosecute those arrested, and bring to justice anyone who sponsored, aided and abetted them.”   In a letter dated June 18, 2022, and signed by SERAP deputy director Kolawole Oluwadare, the organisation said: “Corruption of the ballot box intrudes on the freedom of Nigerian voters to make up their own minds. Vote-buying and other forms of electoral corruption freeze out the ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has revealed how he lives daily with torture and grief over the insecurity challenges bedevilling Nigeria.  During his speech to mark this year's Democracy Day on Sunday, the President said, “I’m living daily with grief and thoughts for all the victims and prisoners of terrorism and kidnapping."  Buhari added that “I and the security agencies are doing all we can to free those unfortunate countrymen and countrywomen safely. For those who have lost their lives, we will continue to seek justice for their families against the perpetrators."  Lending hopes to those currently in captivity, the President reassured that "we will not stop until they are free and their kidnappers are brought to justice. If we all unite, we will be victorious against these agents of terror and destruction.”  President Buhari urged every Nigerian to work together to ensure the success of the coming transition “in honour and memory of one of our national heroes for dem...

Bola Ahmed Tinubu has won the #APCPresidentialPrimaries. Mr. Tinubu will face PDP’s Atiku Abubakar and the Labour Party's Peter Obi as well as other candidates in February to become Nigeria's next president.

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  The chairman of the All Progressives  Congress (APC) has announced Senate President Ahmed Lawan as the consensus presidential candidate of the party. Adamu made the announcement at the meeting of National Working Committee (NWC) on Monday in Abuja. Senate President Ahmad Lawan His adoption of Lawan as consensus candidate is against the position of 11 APC northern Governors, who endorsed that power must shift to the South after President Muhammadu Buhari’s tenure. Adamu told the National Working Committee that he arrived at the choice of the Senate President after consultation with President Muhammadu Buhari. Earlier, Buhari was reported to have held a closed-door meeting with governors of the All Progressives Congress, APC, from the north at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. This comes amid preparations for the party’s convention to elect its presidential candidate for the 2023 general elections. Although President Buhari has maintained his position on the consensus arrangement...

A five-man committee from the headquarters of the  peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is in Edo State to conduct an emergency primary election for Edo North Senatorial District, after the candidate of the party for the position, Victoria Edelokun, withdrew her candidacy. Chairman of the committee, Sir Daniel Obiora, who addressed journalists at the Edo State PDP secretariat, in Benin City, said the committee is in the state to conduct a free, fair and credible emergency primary election following the withdrawal of Victoria Edelokun who emerged as the candidate of the party in the May 23, 2022 election. “We are here to conduct an emergency Senatorial primary election in Edo North Senatorial District for the purpose of nominating the candidate of our party for the upcoming Senatorial election come 2023. “This exercise has become important because of the withdrawal of our candidate on 23rd May. Her withdrawal has rendered that exercise inconclusive hence the need for this exe...

Gunmen   opened   fire   on worshippers at a Catholic church in southwestern Nigeria and also detonated explosives. Dozens are feared dead including children.Lawmaker Ogunmolasuyi Oluwole said the attackers targeted the St Francis Catholic Church in Ondo state just as people gathered on Sunday in Owo – a town in the state where many of the wounded are being treated.The motives and the precise death toll were not immediately clear. No group claimed responsibility for Sunday’s attack.A witness who gave his name as Abayomi told AFP news agency at least 20 worshippers were killed. “I was passing through the area when I heard a loud explosion and gunshots inside the church,” he said.Abayomi said he saw at least five gunmen on the church premises before he ran for safety.             ‘ VILE and SATANIC ’   ONDO GOVERNOR ARAKUNRIN OLUWAROTIMI AKEREDOLU said he was heading back to the state from the capital Abuja after the...

CNG   DESCRIBED THE ACTION OF THE NORTHERN   GOVERNORS AS   TREACHER Y   AND    ABUSE    OF PRIVILEGE . The Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG) has expressed displeasure with the Northern Governors in the All Progressives Congress (APC) for "their late-minute concession of the right of northerners to seek party’s presidential ticket, describing it as treacherous.On Saturday, the APC Northern Governors Forum, in a statement, urged President Muhammadu Buhari to pick a Southern aspirant as his successor. The governors who signed the statement include Bello Masari, Katsina; Nasir El-Rufai, Kaduna; Atiku Bagudu, Kebbi; Simon Lalong, Plateau; Abdullahi Ganduje, Kano; Bello Matawalle, Zamfara; Inuwa Yahaya, Gombe; Babagana Zulum, Borno; Sani Bello, Niger; and Abdullahi Sule, Nasarawa.The statement by the governors had partly read, “We, therefore, wish to strongly recommend to President Muhammadu Buhari that the search for a successor as the AP...

NORTHERN   APC  GOVERNOR 'S  ARE PATRIOTS WORTHY OF HONOUR – Tinubu Campaign THE Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu Campaign Organisation has described the 11 Northern All Progressives Congress Governors as worthy patriots for their decision to support power shift to the South.The campaign organisation in a press statement on Sunday, signed by its Director of Media and Communication, Bayo Onanuga noted that all lovers of peace, progress, equity, justice and stability of Nigeria should celebrate and honour the Northern APC Governors.Read also: APC to sanction Tinubu over utterances against Buhari in AbeokutaThe 11 Governors of APC from the North in a press statement endorsed by them on Saturday announced that they took a decision to support the next President of Nigeria from the South after the tenure of President Muhammadu Buhari in the best interest of the country. The Northern APC Governors also commended their Jigawa State counterpart, Governor Mohammad Abubakar B...

ELECTRICITY   GENERATION   WILL   STABILISE   SOON – Minister. Oben Gas Processing Plant THE decrease in electricity generation is the result of a partial shutdown of the Oben gas plant.The plant, which is in dire need of processing equipment repairs, produces gas, used to generate more than 35% of the country’s electricity.“The incident unfortunately occurred at a time when other power plants on other gas sources are undergoing planned maintenance and capacity testing”, Abubakar Aliyu, Minister of Power, posted on Twitter, on Saturday.In recent months, parts of the country have experienced low to no electricity, sometimes for three straight days.Mr Aliyu said the Seplat Energy Plc has mobilised equipment, materials, and personnel to the site to restore normal gas supply to the affected power plants.According to him, the repair work will be completed this weekend and normalcy will be restored, adding that efforts are being made for a sustained improveme...

*Ignorance is the      reason you hate* The judge asked the killer of former Egyptian President Anwar Sadat,  'Why did you kill Sadat? He said to him, "Because he is secular!" The judge replied: "What does secular means?" The killer said: "I don't know!" In the case of the attempted assassination of the late Egyptian writer, Naguib Mahfouz,  the judge asked the man who stabbed Naguib Mahfouz: "Why did you stab him?" The terrorist said: "Because of his novel - The children of our neighborhood". The judge asked him: "Have you read this novel?" The criminal said: "No!" Another judge asked the terrorist who killed the Egyptian writer 'Faraj Fara': "Why did you murder Faraj Fouda?" The terrorist replied: "Because he is an unfaithful!" The judge asked him: "How did you know he was an unfaithful?" The terrorist replied: "According to the books he wrote". The judge said...