The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has called on the police to prosecute the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) for Adamawa state, Hudu Yunusa Ari. The INEC stated this following Tuesday’s closed-door meeting of all its National Commissioners at its national headquarters in Abuja over the highly controversial supplementary governorship election conducted in Adamawa State over the weekend. Adamawa REC, Ari, had earlier declared that the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Aishatu Dahiru Binani won the supplementary gubernatorial election that was held on Saturday. INEC, however, voided the declaration of Binani as the winner of the Adamawa governorship…
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Supporters of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Adamawa State on Monday took to the streets to protest against the declaration of Senator Aishatu Dahiru Binani as the winner of the Adamawa governorship election. But Binani has asked a Federal High Court in Abuja to stop the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from setting aside her declaration as the winner of the election. In a motion exparte filed on Monday, the applicant sought the leave of the court allowing her to file an application for an order of prohibition and certiorari stopping INEC from taking any step towards setting aside…
Sports brand, Adidas, has opened a flagship store in Lagos State, Nigeria; its largest and first-of-its-kind store in West Africa. In a statement issued by the sports brand, Adidas revealed that Lagos Flagship is the fourth Adidas store to open in partnership with BrandCo in Nigeria. It stated that the flagship store would provide an immersive and community-driven shopping experience for exclusive Adidas collections. It was revealed that Nigerian architect and Founder of cmDesign Atelier, Tosin Oshinowo, conceptualised the Adidas Lagos Flagship. “The building’s façade draws inspiration from iconic Lagos’ Makoko corrugated roofing, and the design incorporates innovative building materials…
Hoodlums have attacked operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency at Odunze Lane, Mile 3 axis of Diobu in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. During the attack, the hoodlums were said to have set free a suspect, Izuu Isuofia. PUNCH learnt that three officials of the NDLEA were on duty in the area known for illicit drug activities on Friday when the attack was carried out. An eyewitness who did not want his name in print for security reasons said the NDLEA operatives had arrested a suspected drug dealer in the area popularly known as ‘50’ and were taking him…
The Nigerian Railway Corporation generated N715.09 million in revenue from passengers in Q3 of 2022, the National Bureau of Statistics says. This is contained in the NBS Rail Transportation Data for Q3 and Q4 2022 released in Abuja on Tuesday. The report showed that the figure dropped by 60.52 per cent compared to the N1.81 billion received in Q3 of 2021. Similarly, it showed that N101.84 million was collected in Q3 2022 as revenue from goods/ cargos, this dropped by 7.04 per cent from N109.56 million received in Q3 2021. “Also, other receipts grew by 707.31 per cent in Q3…
The $2.8bn Ajaokuta-Kaduna-Kano natural gas pipeline project being constructed by the Federal Government through the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited and its partners, is now 43 per cent completed, the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, announced on Monday. He also revealed that the project would help in generating 3.6 gigawatts (3,600 megawatts) of electricity, adding that the AKK pipeline was a major project of the regime of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.). Osinbajo spoke at the opening ceremony of the 6th Nigeria International Energy Summit in Abuja. He was represented at the event by the Secretary to the…
A 30-year-old man, Abubakar Abdulaziz, of Sabuwar Santa, the Musawa Local Government Area of Katsina State is now in police custody after he allegedly kidnapped and buried a three-year-old boy alive. Abdulaziz was said to have buried the abducted boy alive despite collecting N150,000 out of the N800,000 ransom he demanded from his father. The spokesman for the Katsina State Police Command, CSP Gambo Isah, confirmed the incident on Monday. Isah said Abdulaziz was arrested on Thursday following a tip-off and had allegedly confessed to having committed the offence. So This Happened (202) Reviews Lagos… The police spokesman explained,…
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is under investigation by the parliamentary watchdog over a possible failure to declare shares his wife holds in an agency benefiting from a recent budget, an official said on. Monday. Parliamentary Standards Commissioner Daniel Greenberg on Thursday launched the probe into shares Akshata Murty holds in childcare agency “Koru Kids”, his office said. The rules demand that “members must always be open and frank in declaring any relevant interest in any proceeding of the House or its committees.” Sunak’s office said the prime minister was “happy to assist the Commissioner to clarify how this…
Two candidates who seek to hold the third and fourth-highest offices in Nigeria are rumoured to be planning to bribe their fellow lawmakers with as much as $1 million each to get elected, officials have said. Governors elected on the platform of Nigeria’s ruling party, All Progressives Congress (APC), stated this ‘rumour’ in a memo to the country’s newly elected president, Bola Tinubu. The governors under the aegis of Progressives Governors Forum (PGF) said they were aware of ‘rumours’ that two lawmakers, one aspiring for Senate President and another for Speaker of the House of Representatives, have expressed willingness to…
INEC) has asked Barr. Yusuf Hudu Ari, the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) for Adamawa State, to stay away from office till further notice.
The Twitter account of activist, David Hundeyin, has been temporarily locked. Hundeyin’s Twitter account was locked after he claimed that the president-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, had a dual citizenship. He had published a claim showing the former Lagos State governor had an undisclosed dual citizenship from Guinea but lied in his Form EC9 declaration with the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) that he had no other passport except that of Nigeria. The revelation of Tinubu’s undisclosed dual citizenship has since generated controversy on social media. Tinubu’s supporters therefore reported Hundeyin’s account to Twitter management for allegedly “posting private information.” Hundeyin…
A 33-year-old woman, Olaide Adekunle, has reportedly sold her 18-month-old baby for N600,000 to offset her bank loan. The suspect, who lives in Sango in the Ado-Odo/Ota Local Government Area of Ogun State, reportedly left her house for Lagos where she sold the baby to a yet-to-be-identified buyer. The suspect was arrested by men of the Ogun State Police Command following a complaint lodged at Sango divisional headquarters by the woman’s husband, Nureni Rasaq. The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, SP, Abimbola Oyeyemi, disclosed this in a statement on Monday. The PPRO added that the husband reported that…