By Muideen Olaniyi, Itodo Daniel Sule, Baba Martins (Abuja) & Mumini Abdulkareem (Ilorin) The decision of the Senate on the amended Clause 60(3) permitting both electronic and manual transmission of results has raised fresh questions. SPONSOR AD The Senate…
Former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar says mixed electronic and manual transmission of election results will be resolve challenges in election process. Atiku said that such combinations would amount to a potentially threat to the country’s electoral system. He said…
Vice President (Oil & Gas) of Dangote Industries Limited, Devakumar V. G. Edwin, has been honoured with the prestigious Person of the Year award at the 9th Annual Award and Lecture of the Daily Asset Newspapers, in recognition of his…
The Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF), Oluwaseun Mayomi Faleye, is accused of operating more than 100 bank accounts linked to a single Bank Verification Number (BVN) and granting himself “unlimited spending powers”…
The Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal has upheld the suspension of Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, ruling that the Nigerian Senate acted within its constitutional and procedural powers. The appellate court, in a unanimous judgment delivered on Monday by a…
Tributes have been pouring in from across Ghana and the world since the death of Ghanaian highlife legend Ebo Taylor. A guitarist, composer and bandleader who died on Saturday, Taylor’s six-decade career played a key role in shaping modern popular…
A potential act of subversion of the public good reared its head in the Senate’s rejection of the electronic transmission of election results in real time, from polling units to the Independent National Electoral Commission’s (INEC) database, during its consideration…
A Lagos-based political activist and All Progressives Congress party member, Mobolaji Gbajabiamila, has alleged that he is being unlawfully detained in Ikoyi Prison following a series of what he describes as politically motivated false allegations made by the Surulere Local…
The Kano State House of Assembly has dismissed reports alleging an ongoing move to impeach Deputy Governor Aminu Abdulsalam Gwarzo, describing the claims as unfounded and misleading. Speaking to journalists in Kano on Saturday, the spokesperson to the Speaker of…
By Ochuko Akuopha, Asaba PRESIDENTIAL candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Mr. Peter Obi, Saturday, lamented that Nigeria had become one of the hungriest and most insecure countries in the world. Obi stated this at Asaba, Delta State during the…