The Southern and Middle Belt Leadership Forum (SMBLF) has insisted that mandatory electronic transmission of results remains critical to credible and transparent elections in Nigeria. In a statement on Monday, the group called for the retention of Clause 60 of the Electoral Amendment Bill, which mandates real-time electronic transmission of election results. It warned that…
Three people have been killed while 11 others, including a Catholic priest, have been abducted in an attack on Karku community in Kauru LGA of Kaduna state. The incident occurred in the early hours of Saturday, barely two days after Governor Uba Sani received 172 christian worshippers abducted in Kurmin Wali, Kajuru LGA , on…
By Shu’aibu Usman Leman Nigeria’s democratic journey is often measured through national politics, presidential elections, legislative contests, and elite power struggles. Yet democracy does not take root at the centre. It begins at the grassroots. It is within local councils, wards, and communities that citizens experience governance most directly. Unfortunately, grassroots governance has long been…
By Joseph Shawulu Kwewum A vaccine is not a cure, and it is not a treatment. If you already have an illness, taking a vaccine will not make it disappear the way pain medicine can stop a headache. Vaccines are meant to prevent disease, not to treat it after you are sick. They help protect…
Governor of Kaduna state, Senator Uba Sani, on Thursday received all the 172 Christian worshippers abducted by bandits during coordinated attacks on three churches in Kurmin Wali community, Kajuru Local Government Area of Kaduna State, on January 18. The governor received the victims at the Government House, Kaduna, following the release of the last batch…
No fewer than 75 people were killed, and several houses set ablaze in an attack by terrorists in Nuku and Woro communities in the Kaiama Local Government Area of Kwara state. Spokesperson of the Kwara state, police command Adetoun Ejire-Adeyemi, said the attack on the communities began at about 6 pm on Tuesday. Ejire-Adeyemi said…
