The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Saturday noted that it lacked power to arrest and investigate electoral offenders under the legal instruments that created it, saying it “is the weakest electoral body in the world.” INEC Director, Voter Education and Publicity, Mr. Oluwole Osaze-Uzzi made the remarks at the 11th …

The Chief Whip of the Nigerian Senate, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, has faulted the manner in which the Rural Grazing Area (RUGA) project of the federal government was conceived before its suspension. Kalu, who spoke with newsmen at the weekend, also said service chiefs were personal staff of the President …

Edo state governor, Godwin Obaseki, has hinted at plan to immortalise the former governor of old Bendel state, Vice Admiral Hassan Abdullahi (rtd), for the good work he did as military governor of the state. Admiral Abdullahi, who died last Tuesday in Abuja at the age of 80, was military …

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo says the present administration has invested N900 billion in the power sector since its assumption of office in 2015. Osinbajo stated this when he paid a courtesy visit on the Asagba of Asaba, Prof. Chike Edozien on Friday in Asaba. ”Since assumption of office, we have …

Recently the INEC Chairman Professor Yakubu was reported in both print and electronic media to have said that INEC was the most improved federal institution. I had to read that twice to convince myself I was not seeing double. If according to him, INEC is the gold standard for Nigeria’s …

Governor Sierake Dickson of Bayelsa State’s Deputy,John Jonah,the Secretary to the State Government, Kemela Okara and the Chief of Staff Talford Ongola have all picked governorship nomination forms. Also a serving senator, Diri Douye and a member of the House of Representatives, Fred Agbadi have both paid the mandatory N21 …

The National Vice Chairman (North-West) of the All Progressives Congress, Inuwa Abdulkadir, has dragged the party before the court. He has also given the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Lanre Issa-Onilu, a seven-day ultimatum to retract an alleged defamatory publication against his person, tender a public apology and pay N500m as …

A company in which Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo has a stake, Simmons Coopers Partners, has been linked to another firm, Ocean Trust Limited, which was fingered in an alleged N100bn scam involving Alpha Beta Consulting Limited and Alpha Beta LP. Ocean Trust Limited, which was accused of being a conduit for …

Residents of Laderin and other villages along the Lagos-Ibadan rail line staged a protest in Abeokuta on Thursday against the contractor handling the project, CCECC. The protesters, led by the Chairman, Abule-Ake Community Development Association, Alhaji Farouk Akintunde, staged a demonstration at the Ogun State House of Assembly. Speaking on …

Deji Adeleke, elder brother to the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the September 22, 2018 governorship poll in Osun State, Ademola Adeleke, on Thursday, said many promises made by the PDP before the family accepted the party’s governorship ticket were not kept. Adeleke, in a statement he signed …