The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced the creation of 56,873 additional polling units. The INEC Chairman Prof. Mahmood Yakubu disclosed this on Wednesday at a meeting with Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs) in Abuja. This brings the number of polling units in the country to 176,846. The commission also abolished polling units in private…
The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abdulrasheed Bawa, has revealed how a female minister laundered $37.5m through property deal. Speaking while featuring on Channels Television current affairs programme, “Sunrise Daily”, on Tuesday, to mark his 100 days in office, Bawa said that about 90 to 100 per cent of resources are…
The opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kaduna state has accused the ruling the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state for not living up to the expectations of the people in the past six years. In a statement on Tuesday, Abraham Catoh, spokesman of the PDP in the state, said the APC administration under…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governors’ Forum, has frowned at the nation’s rising and seemingly uncontrollable debt profile. The governors also expressed concern about the operations of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), maintaining that the apex bank “is operating as an independent government within a government, which is a pervasion of the autonomy of…
Ahmad Bamali, emir of Zazzau, (Zaria), Kaduna state, has lamented over the frequent cases of banditry and kidnappings in his domain. The emir spoke on Monday while receiving heads of security agencies in the state, who paid him a courtesy call. The heads of the security agencies were led by Samuel Aruwan, Kaduna state commissioner…
The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in the 19 Northern States and the Federal Capital Authority (FCT), has said that the current situation in the country has plunged majority of Nigerians into hunger, poverty, frustration and despondency. It also raised the alarm over an impending food crisis as a result of the activities of bandits….
