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THE Independent National Electoral Commission has reminded political parties and aspirants for various elective offices to always adhere to guidelines prescribed by law in conducting primaries for the selection of candidates for elections. High-level indifference to this critical attribute of party democracy in the last general election bequeathed 806 pre-election …

Shanghai Shenhua striker, Odion Ighalo, has declared himself fit and ready for the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations preparations with the Super Eagles, after recovering fully from an injury that kept him out of action for three weeks. Ighalo picked up the injury featuring for Shanghai Shenhua in a Chinese …

A bank account containing £211m (approximately N82bn) has been traced to a former Nigerian military dictator, General Sani Abacha. The money was recovered and subsequently confiscated in Jersey, Channel Islands, on the request of the United States of America Government. Late Abacha was said to have laundered the money through …

Workers of the Securities and Exchange Commission under the aegis of the Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria, SEC Branch, on Tuesday rejected the judgement of the court reinstating the suspended Director-General, Mounir Gwarzo. The workers shut the premises of the commission and paralysed business activities on Monday morning …

The chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party in Ekiti State, Chief Gboyega Oguntuwase, has berated the state chapter of the All Progressives Congress and the state governor, Kayode Fayemi, for suspending a former governor of the state, Segun Oni. Oguntuwase, who said the suspension was a fallout of lack of …

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board on Monday conducted a supplementary Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination for 490 candidates whose computer based Test centres were earlier suspended for malpractices and other infractions. The UTME was held in JAMB CBT centre in Kogo, Abuja, JAMB Bayelsa State office, Yenagoa and JAMB National …

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, Warman Ogoriba, on Monday said Bayelsa State stakeholders had never adopted a particular rotational method for the office of a governor. Warman, who was recently appointed the Director-General of the Henieken Lokpobiri Campaign Organisation, spoke in Yenagoa, the state capital. He said those …

Delta State Governor, Ifeanyi Okowa, has said there will be no room for apprenticeship in his second term cabinet. He said only men and women who are conversant with governance would be appointed into the cabinet. Okowa said this while swearing in Chiedu Ebie as the Secretary to the State …

The Imo State House of Assembly led by Chinedu Offor suspended the 27 local government chairmen and 645 councilors in the state indefinitely. In a motion moved by Bruno Ukoha (Ezin-Ihitte Mbaise Constituency), the House directed the suspended council bosses to immediately handover to directors of administration in their councils. …

A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, yesterday, sentenced to 42 years imprisonment, the convicted former acting Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, Calistus Obi, for N136 million fraud. The court handed Obi a seven-year imprisonment on six of the counts he was convicted and …