The National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in collaboration with pro-democracy group, Network Against Corruption and Trafficking, has exposed a community in Abuja, where hard drugs are sold like normal food items. NDLEA and NACAT have also carried out a sensitization exercise against the use of hard drugs in the community known as Abattoir in Abuja. The sensitization came on the heels of an investigation carried out by NACAT, where the group discovered that Abattoir,...
Forty one, 41, suspected internet fraudsters have been arrested in Warri, Delta State. Operatives of the Benin Zonal Command of the EFCC, arrested the suspects on Friday, during a sting operation. Their arrest followed actionable intelligence on their nefarious activities in the area. The suspects were identified as Jackson Shebenor, Good Gospower, Akiefa Desmond, Johnson Ogheneuwegba, Okonta Williams, Ochuko Godfrey, Marvelous Oghogho Ekpuke, Ofoluwa Sheriff, Eyengho Richard, Daniel Avwerosuo Iniovorhire, Favour Ighoatudu, Stanley David, Gospower...
Laolu Akande, a former spokesperson for ex-Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, has said the failure of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to e-transmit results of the last general elections has ‘shattered’ the trust of Nigerians in the body. While speaking on Channels TV’s Politics Today on Friday, Akande stated that despite assurances from the commission to transmit results electronically, it failed to upload election results on the INEC Result Viewing Portal (IREV). His words: “It...
Election petition tribunals across Nigeria have so far dismissed at least nine senators, House of Representatives members, and National Assembly members. The court has dismissed members of the opposition PDP, NNPP, and Labour Party as well as the ruling APC. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) was instructed to revoke the lawmakers’ Certificate of Return after the tribunals dismissed them. In other instances, the courts ruled the elections were invalid and ordered a repeat within...
Dennis Idahosa was declared the winner of the February 25 Ovia Federal Constituency election by the National and State Assembly Election Petitions Tribunal in Benin City, which dismissed two petitions for lack of merit and incompetence. The petitioners, Barr Omosede Igbinedion of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Epele Asemota of the Labour Party (LP), each independently petitioned the court to contest Idahosa’s victory. Asemota and Igbenedion had accused INEC of conducting the election in...
Paul Nnamchi (LP-Enugu State), a representative, has disagreed with the decision of the National Assembly Election Tribunal’s three-person panel that declared his election to be invalid. He was fired from the NASS by the tribunal on Friday, and Cornelius Nnaji, the PDP candidate, was pronounced the winner. This was said in a statement made by Nnamchi shortly after the verdict through his media advisor, Mr. Sam Nwanze. The ruling “does not conform to the provisions...
Tolu Bankole, a member of the All Progressives Congress National Working Committee, has voiced his strong faith that President Bola Tinubu will win the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal hearing on Wednesday. In response to widely circulated media claims that judges were under pressure to invalidate the president, Bankole gave his vote of confidence. Justice Haruna Tsammani, the tribunal’s chair, Justice Stephen Adah of the Court of Appeal (Asaba Division), Justice Monsurat Bolaji-Yusuf of the Court...
Abubakar Musa was given a 17-month prison term by a Shari’a court in Gama PRP Kano State on Tuesday for stealing two cell phones worth 165,000.00. Theft and unauthorized entry into a home are allegedly committed by Atlanta resident Abubakar Musa. Aliyu Abidin Murtala, the prosecutor, read the charges against him in front of the court, and he entered a plea of guilty. He claimed the man broke into the home while the owner was...
The items distributed by the federal government to cushion the impact of the high cost of fuel have reportedly been stolen in many states of the federation, worsening the situation of vulnerable Nigerians as they struggle with a high cost of living as a result of the administration’s removal of fuel subsidies. Several of the products sent by the government to relieve the suffering of Nigerians have already been taken over by high-ranking government officials...
In the early hours of Saturday morning, kidnappers armed to the teeth have stormed the El-Rufai state that is located in the Bwari district of Abuja. Baba Bego, who serves as Chairman of the Kuchiko Resettlement Development Area (KRDA), has confirmed the occurrence to the media. According to him, the kidnappers came at the scene and began firing erratically into the air before kidnapping a local person. The victim, Chinedu, was taken from his residence...
