The Chairman, National Population Commission, Mr. Eze Duruiheoma, has said the estimated population of the country is 198 million. Duruiheoma said this in New York while delivering Nigeria’s statement on sustainable cities, human mobility and international migration at the 51st…
Year: 2018
NIGERIA’S ELECTORAL IMPUNITY: WHEN WILL PERPETRATORS BE PUNISHED?
As the 2019 general elections approach, the National Human Rights Commission has reiterated calls for the prosecution of alleged offenders of the Electoral Act. In a country where election periods have witnessed the most horrendous violence leading to gruesome deaths…
DELTA PDP: AGGRIEVED YOUTHS DISRUPT GATHERING OF PARTY LEADERS
Aggrieved youths of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, have disrupted the gathering of the party leaders and faithful in Patani Local Government Area of Delta State. The youths, it was gathered got angered when the chairman of the local government…
KWARA BANK ROBBERY: A TERRORIST ATTACK – AISSON PRESIDENT
The President, Association of Industrial Security and Safety Operators of Nigeria (AISSON), Dr Ona Ekhomu, has described the robbery of five banks in Offa, Kwara State, as a terrorist attack. Ekhomu said the robbery exhibited the elements of a terror…
2019 NO E-VOTING: ELECTION IS NOT JUST BY TECHNOLOGY- INEC
The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmood Yakubu, says there will be no e-voting in 2019. Prof. Yakubu said this yesterday in Abuja at the end of a three-day International Conference of Election Management Bodies (EMBs)…
AGENTS OF FASCISM ARE ON THE PROWL- PDP ACCUSES APC, FG
Ahead of the 2019 general elections, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday accused the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and the federal government of plans to frame up and humiliate the Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremmadu, Rivers State Governor,…
HOW OBJ PAID REPS TO IMPEACH FORMER SPEAKER – JAGABA
The former President, Olusegun Obasanjo-led executive, paid members of the House of Representatives N500, 000 each to impeach a former Speaker of the House, Ghali Umar Na’Abba. This was revealed yesterday by the Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee…
OPENING THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY MEANS WE HAVE NOTHING TO HIDE – SENATE LEADER
Senate Leader, Ahmad Lawan (APC, Yobe), yesterday, said the “NASS Open Week” programme was conceived to foster public participation in the democratic process of the country. Sen. Lawan who chairs the National Assembly Planning Committee of NASS Open Week told…
MURDER CHARGE: EKITI HIGH COURT ACQUITS STATE APC CHAIRMAN ON FAYOSE’S ORDER
Ekiti State High Court sitting in Ado Ekiti has discharged and acquitted the state chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Chief Jide Awe, and two others of murder charge. “They had been on trial for the murder of Madam Juliana…
BUHARI’S RE-ELECTION DECLARATION: IMPENDING DEMISE OF APC – ADP
The Action Democratic Party (ADP) says the declaration of President Muhammadu Buhari to run again in 2019 is the final revelation of the impending demise of the ruling APC. The ADP National Chairman, Engr. Yabagi Sani, who reacted yesterday on…