While thugs pushed voters away at Unit 078, Ward F5, Okeafa, Ilamose Estate, Oshodi-Isolo Constituency 2, voting was abruptly suspended at 10.52 a.m. After visiting polling places in Oshodi-Isolo Constituency 2’s Okeafa, Ilamose Estate, a News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) correspondent noticed that some thugs had arrived and were starting to throw bottles and stones Read More…
N’Golo Kante, the French midfielder who had a hamstring injury in August, will provide Chelsea a boost, but Mason Mount will miss out, according to manager Graham Potter on Friday. Kante, 31, returned to full training at the beginning of the month after missing just two games due to injury. However, Potter warned that they Read More…
President Muhammadu Buhari has assented to key historic changes of the 1999 Nigerian Constitution. This was announced on Friday in Abuja by Rep. Ahmed Wase, the deputy speaker of the House of Representatives, who also serves as the Chairman of the Special Ad-Hoc Committee on the Revision of the 1999 Constitution. Congratulating the president for Read More…
Following a previous judgement given in Lagos on March 8, a Federal High Court in Abuja issued an injunction on Friday directing the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Akwa Ibom State to electronically transfer the results of the gubernatorial and house of assembly elections held on Saturday in conformity with its rules and policies. Read More…
Lagos police have launched an investigation into the alleged threat issued against Igbo by the Chairman of the Lagos State Parks Management Committee, Musiliu Akinsanya, also known as MC Oluomo. MC Oluomo had been alleged to have threatened Igbos who would not vote for the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to stay at home during Read More…
A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed by the Bureau of Public Service Reforms and the University of Lagos (UNILAG) Consult to improve the capacity of elected public office holders to instill the values of good governance. On Friday in Abuja, the MoU was signed on behalf of BPSR by its Director-General, Mr. Dasuki Read More…
In a decision that has infuriated the Kremlin, the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Friday issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin, accusing him of the war crime of the forcible deportation of children from Ukraine. After Muammar Gaddafi of Libya and Omar al-Bashir of the Sudan, Putin is the only other sitting Read More…
If the continent’s numerous shocks are appropriately addressed, the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) suggests that its economy might grow positively. This is contained in a press release by Mr. Adam Elhiraika, Director of the Macroeconomics and Governance Division of the ECA, during the experts meeting currently taking place in Ethiopia. Elhiraika stated that a Read More…
A school bus in Lagos carrying children between the ages of one and five suffered a somersault, injuring everyone on board on Thursday. The accident happened early in the day in Surulere. The bus with the licence plate KTU-465DN reportedly struck a median barrier and tore off a piece of concrete holding a traffic light Read More…
The Labour Party Youth Wing declared on Thursday that it will win the next March 18 gubernatorial and house of assembly elections in the states of Lagos, Rivers, and Edo as well as other South-South and South-East states. This was stated at a news conference about the elections on March 18 by Mr. Kennedy Ahanotu, Read More…
