The Independent National Electoral Commission has unveiled an electronic collation and results transmission system with a view to eliminating manual collation which the commission says enables malpractices. INEC’s Director of Information and Communication Technology, Chidi Nwafor, disclosed the development on Thursday during a media parley chaired by the commission’s chief, Mahmood Yakubu, in Abuja. In…
The Commissioner of Police in Sokoto State, Mohammed Abdulkadir, has confirmed the killing of two mobile police officers by suspected armed robbers in the early hours of Monday. Mr. Abdulkadir, who addressed journalists in Sokoto on the incident, said the police officers were attacked and killed while on duty at the NNPC Mega station, Gusua…
The Bayelsa State Governor and Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Reconciliation Committee, Seriake Dickson, on Saturday called on key actors in the party to sheathe their swords and embrace peace to move PDP forward. According to him, it would be unhealthy for both Ahmed Markafi and Modu Sheriff to be trading words at…
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has advised the Police to concentrate on their constitutional responsibility of providing security. Speaking at the Government House, Port Harcourt on Friday when he granted audience to Mr Zaki Ahmed, the New Rivers State Commissioner of Police, Governor Wike regretted that the Nigerian Police has metamorphosed into a political party. He…
The Bayelsa State Government has been commended for making appropriate investments in the tourism sector in its efforts to diversify the local economy. Director General of the National Institute for Tourism and Hospitality, Mrs Chika Balogun gave the commendation when she paid a courtesy visit on the state Deputy Governor, Rear Admiral Gboribiogha John Jonah…
President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun, and the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, to act with dispatch in releasing the second tranche of the London-Paris Club refunds to the states in order to ease their financial hardships. The president, who addressed the meeting of the National…
Borno Police Command on Thursday confirmed that a police sergeant was killed in Wednesday’s terrorists attack at Magumeri in Magumeri Local Government Area of the state. The command’s spokesman, Victor Isuku, confirmed the incident in a statement on Thursday. “On Wednesday evening, information was received that Magumeri town was under attack by Boko Haram elements….
At least six persons were confirmed killed as four teenage girls detonated explosives worn around their bodies at the outskirts of Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, in the early hours of Wednesday, an official said. Four deafening explosions echoed over Maiduguri in quick successions at about 1.15 a.m., causing sleeping residents to jump out of…
It has been avalanche of defections from the All Progressive Congress, APC, to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, since the former Chief of Staff, Rivers State Government House, Chief Emeh Glory Emeh bid APC goodbye and embraced the Governor Ezenwo Nyesom Wike administration and PDP in Rivers State. The latest defectors are from ward 4…
AT the last count 149, 669 Nigerian graduates of the 200,000 engaged by the Federal Government under the N-Power Volunteer Corps are now collecting their monthly stipends of N30,000 monthly having been physically verified and deployed across the 36 states and FCT. According to Mr. Laolu Akande, Senior Special Assistant on Media & Publicity to…
