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The Independent National Electoral Commission has revealed that over 45 per cent of the total number of registered voters have been found to be invalid as of January 14, 2022. The commission however said 1,390,519 Permanent Voter Cards are valid. While describing the situation as challenging, the commission said it would continue to clean up the voters’ register. Addressing journalists in Abuja on Wednesday, chairman of INEC, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, also raised fears about security challenges on the election. He said, “We are all concerned about the security challenges. But the environment must be secured for INEC to conduct the…
An aide to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Wednesday, disowned a television guest analyst, Olugbenga Olaoye as speaking for his boss. Olaoye had appeared on Arise TV programme Tuesday morning where he posed as speaking on behalf of a movement in support of Osinbajo. His appearance came shortly after the Vice President declared his intention to run for the presidency on Monday. Olaoye was paired with a former governorship candidate in Rivers State, Magnus Abe during the live TV programme. However, some of the views expressed by Olaoye were said not to have gone down well with the camp of…
New York City police have named “a person of interest” after a morning rush-hour shooting at a subway station that left more than 20 people injured. Police said they were looking for Frank R James, 62, in connection with the attack as he had rented a U-Haul van that may be linked to the shooting. The key to the van, rented in Philadelphia, was found at the scene. “We are looking to determine if he has any connection to the train,” NYPD Chief of Detectives James Essig said. The New York Police Department (NYPD) asked “anyone with information on his…
There are growing signs Russia could be on the brink of fully capturing Mariupol, the besieged southern port city which has suffered a devastating, six-week assault. Officially, Ukraine’s armed forces say they are sustaining its defence and are in “continuous contact” with their troops on the ground. But they concede it is likely Moscow will try to take full control of the city, while a regional Russian-backed separatist leader claims Mariupol is close to falling. Ukrainian troops have said they are running out of ammunition, and are believed to have been pushed back into two isolated pockets adjoining the coastline.…
A BBC investigation has found clear evidence that a cluster bomb, banned by many countries under international law, was used in an attack on Kramatorsk railway station in Ukraine. These weapons deliver a payload of bomblets that spread out and explode over a wide area. More than 50 people died when the missile struck the station, which was crowded with people trying to leave the east of the country, on 9 April. More than 120 countries have agreed to a treaty prohibiting the use of these weapons – but not Russia or Ukraine. What evidence is there of cluster weapons? BBC…
A court in Abuja on Wednesday ordered an end to the restrictions placed on the movement of the publisher of Sahara Reporters, Omoyele Sowore. The court said the restriction on his movements was excessive therefore setting aside the decision which came into force since 2019. The publisher, who is also the convener of the Revolution Now Movement was restricted to Abuja by a Federal High Court. READ ALSO: Allied Peoples Party Suspends Six Officers I Lost Governorship Elections Three Times Before I Won Once – Atiku This followed charges of treasonable felony and cyberstalking Presiden Muhammadu Buhari among other offences.…
The Supreme Court of Nigeria, on Wednesday, in Abuja, upheld the six years imprisonment imposed on a former Federal Director of Pensions (FDP,) Mr John Yakubu Yusuf and also ordered him to refund N22.9b to government covers. The N22.9b huge sum was part of the police pension fund he admitted before a High Court of the Federal Capital Territory FCT to have been misappropriated. Justice Tijjani Abubakar in a judgment in an appeal filed by Yusuf, upheld the decision of the Court of Appeal which in 2018 sent him to six years imprisonment, in addition to the refund of the…
Some appearances in media organizations are causing concerns in the camp of the Vice President Prof Yemi Osinbajo. NPO Reports learnt that some persons who were invited to television and radio stations shortly after his declaration for the 2023 presidential race since Monday have given reasons to worry about especially concerning their comments In what the Special Adviser, Political Matters to the President, Senator Babafemi Ojudu, called “opinions that run contrary to his views and persona,” it was gathered that some comments by some persons in the media have created misgivings that might create mistrust between the President, Muhammadu Buhari…
Nigerian celebrity “Whiteman” Mohammed Jamal has said Transcorp hotels, Abuja does not respect status in its strict adherence to rules and regulations. In one of his tweets on Tuesday, Jamal, the CEO of ThreeMPlus Integrated Enterprise Limited, posted photos of two exotics cars apparently owned by highly influential persons which had been clamped. Obviously having violated parking regulations within the premises of the hotel, the vehicles, a Cadillac and a Mercedes Benz G-Wagon, were seen to have been chained down. “Transcorp no send who you be oh,” Jamal wrote on his Twitter page. But many have reacted to Jamal’s post…
US President Joe Biden has said, for the first time, that “dictator” Vladimir Putin is carrying out genocide in Ukraine. Speaking on domestic energy needs at an ethanol plant in Iowa, Biden said “your family budget, your ability to fill up your tank – none of it should hinge on whether a dictator declares war and commits genocide a half a world away”. Speaking to reporters in Iowa, as he prepared to board Air Force One, Biden stood by his remarks. “Yes, I called it genocide. It has become clearer and clearer that Putin is just trying to wipe out…