Togo’s President Faure Gnassingbe took an early lead in the first results from Saturday’s presidential vote released on Monday. Results from six of 42 voting districts showed Gnassingbe with 64 percent, ahead of 33 percent for his nearest rival, Jean-Pierre Fabre, the head of the
Actress, Rukky Sanda put a particular Nigeria senator on blast for allegedly calling Nigerians to attack MTN, Multichoice and other South African companies based in Nigeria due to the xenophobia attack. The actress decried of the suggestion saying that 98 % of people who work there are Nigerians. Here is Rukky; Where Do I Begin? […]
Violence against women in Nigeria, like most African countries, is very common. In fact, figures put it at up to 50- 60 per cent of Nigerian homes and most of it go unreported, either because of our cultural background, the family set-up, or economy reasons. However, experts who gathered at the Association of Resident Doctors […]
The Committee for the Defence of Human Right Rights (CDHR), Osun State Chapter, has warned trade union workers to desist from violence. The right group said this while reacting to a violence caused by the factions of Trade Union Congress in Osun over differences of opinion on a three-day strike. During the crisis, journalists, […]
Malawi says it will repatriate its nationals from South Africa, following an upsurge in xenophobic violence. At least five foreigners, including a 14-year-old boy, have been killed in attacks in South Africa’s coastal city of Durban since last week. Some foreign-owned shops in the main city Johannesburg have shut amid fears that the violence could […]
The National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, (APC) Alhaji Lai Mohammed and the coordinator of the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC), Otunba Gani Adams are in a war of words of over reported violence in Lagos State during last Saturday’s governorship and house of assembly elections in the state. Alhaji Mohammed had raised the […]
The Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC), has said that there were 66 reports of violent incidents targeted at polling units, the Commission’s officials, voters and election materials during last Saturday’s governorship and Houses of Assembly elections. The Commission disclosed that it was already investigating these incidents and would bring the culprits to
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has alerted security agencies in the country to alleged moves being made Governor Olusegun Mimiko, to disrupt tomorrow’s Governorship and House of Assembly elections in the entire South-West by instigating widespread violence. In a statement issued in Lagos on Thursday by APC’s National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party
Military officials say 11 civilians and two soldiers have been killed in three attacks in Egypt’s restive northern Sinai. The officials said a mortar landed on Wednesday on a residential area south of Sheik Zweid, a town in northern Sinai, hitting a house and killing nine of its residents. Separately, officials said a missile landed […]
Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Attahiru Jega, has warned desperate politicians against violence in Saturday’s governorship and House of Assembly elections. Jega, who made the call Thursday in Makurdi during an interactive session of stakeholders and INEC ahead of the elections, expressed concern over the burning down of INEC offices and
Osun State Police Command has asked people who were molested or maltreated to report at the nearest police station in the state to lodge their complaints. State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Sam Okaula, gave the advice in Osogbo as the state prepared for the State House of Assembly election on Saturday. According to him, “So […]
Ekiti state Governor Ayo Fayose has lifted the dawn to dusk curfew imposed on the state in the wake of the declaration of the results of the last presidential election won by Maj Gen Mohammed Buhari of the APC. Fayose in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary Idowu Adelusi on Thursday said the curfew […]
A victory party organized by members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti yesterday turned awful as it was disrupted by gun-wielding hoodlums who destroyed five vehicles belonging to the party’s members. Also destroyed was a vehicle belonging to an operative of the Department of State Services (DSS). The hoodlums attacked the party’s secretariat […]
Fears that violence may erupt after the release of the final result of last Saturday’s Presidential election by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) paralysed commercial activities in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and its suburbs, on Tuesday. The palpable fear heightened among Abuja residents, after the polling agent of the People’s Democratic
A member of Gombe State House of Assembly, Alhaji Umar Aminu (APC), and eight others are feared killed by insurgents on Saturday. The insurgents who attacked Dukku and Nafada local government areas of the state were said to have killed the lawmaker representing Dukku South Constituency. A source told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) […]
Nigeria is called the giant of Africa. But is Nigeria truly the giant of Africa? Perhaps, Nigeria is the potential giant of Africa with clay feet and spindly legs. We have the potentialities to make Nigeria the greatest and biggest economy in Africa; but clueless, visionless, inept, and corrupt leadership has continued to hinder our […]
Yemeni officials have said President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi has fled his palace in the southern city of Aden for an undisclosed location in the city Wednesday as Houthi fighters continued their advance to the south. The officials denied earlier reports that Hadi had left the city entirely. Aden has been a refuge for Hadi since […]
The Commander, Odekpe Naval Outpost, Captain Mike Oamen, on Wednesday, warned politicians and political thugs not to engage in electoral malpractice in the riverine communities of Anambra State. Oamen told journalists in Onitsha that the Navy would be deploying more boats and personnel along the waterways to avert ballot box snatching and other forms of […]
