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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...