Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmoud Yakubu has said that the the timetable for the 2023 general elections will be release after the Anambra governorship election scheduled for November 6. Yakubu disclosed this on Wednesday in Abuja at a public hearing on the electoral act amendment bill. The INEC Chairman also…
Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, has accused the President, Muhammadu Buhari of working for the Fulani ethnic group to take over Nigeria. The governor spoke on Tuesday while condemning the killing in parts of Benue state allegedly by herdsmen. According to Ortom, no fewer than 70 people have been killed in the last two weeks…
Another video of the remaining 29 abducted students of the Federal College of Forestry Mechanization, Afaka, Kaduna has surface on the social media. On March 11, 2021, bandits invaded the school at about 11:30pm and abducted 39 students. Weeks after the abduction, 10 of the students were released following the payment of N17 million, according…
The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has suspended Channels Television for violating the broadcast code. The station was also fined N5 million for the offence. The NBC, in a letter signed by its Acting Director-General of the NBC, Prof. Armstrong Idachaba and addressed to the Managing Director of Channels Television, said on April 25, 2021 at…
Two more of the abducted students of Greenfield University, Kaduna, have been killed by their captors. This brings the number of the students killed to five. Three of the students were earlier killed by the bandits on Friday by their captors. Samuel Aruwan, the Kaduna state commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, disclosed this…
At least 31 Nigerian soldiers were killed when IS-aligned jihadists ambushed a military convoy escorting weapons and overran a base in Borno state, the AFP quoted military sources on Monday. Also in Geidam, Yobe state, 11 people were reportedly killed when the terrorists invaded the area. The AFP reports that fighters from the Islamic State…
