The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has warned its electoral officers to refrain from activities that will tamper with the commission’s integrity. Mahmood Yakubu, INEC’s chairman, said this on Thursday while swearing in 19 resident electoral commissioners (RECs) in Abuja. According to TheCable, the commissioners comprise nine from the academia, six civil servants including retired…
Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike, has urged politicians against utterances on religion during the campaigns for next year’s general elections. This was contained in a statement issued by Kelvin Ebiri, Special Assistant to the governor on Media to the governor. Ebiri said Wike spoke on Thursday when he hosted, the Police commissioner for the state,…
The General Assembly of the Tangale Community Development Association (TCDA), the umbrella socio-cultural body for the seven clans of the Tangale nation, Gombe State, has inaugurated a caretaker committee to serve for a period of six months. The TCDA, in a statement by Richard Yusuf, its Public Relations Officer (PRO), said the committee was inaugurated…
Two people have been reportedly killed in an attack by gunmen in an attack on NTV community, Bokkos Local Government Area of Plateau State . According to The PUNCH the two victims were killed on Sunday night when the village was invaded by the gunmen believed to be fulani herdsmen. Residents of the community who…
The federal government has declared Jigawa as the first state to become open defecation free in Nigeria. According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), the Minister of Water Resources, Suleiman Adamu, disclosed on Thursday at a “world news conference”. The conference was part of activities to prepare for the 2022 “world toilet summit”, scheduled…
President Muhammadu Buhari has said that the decision of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to launch new designs and replace high value Naira notes had his support. In a statement on Sunday in Abuja, by Garba Shehu, Presidential spokesman, Buhari said he was convinced that the nation will gain a lot by doing so….
