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Senate President Ahmad Lawan may have finally lost out in his bid to return to the red chamber following the omission of his name from the final list of candidates for next year’s Presidential and National Assembly Elections. This was as the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC published the names of All Progressives Congress APC Presidential Aspirant, Godswill Akpabio as the party’s candidate for Akwa Ibom Northwest Senatorial District, Dave Umahi, Ebonyi South and Ibrahim Shekarau as candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party NNPP for Kano Central Senatorial District, despite having defected from the NNPP about a month ago.…

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has disclosed that 7,043,594 Nigerians that applied for voter registration did not complete the process before the deadline for the Continuous Voter Registration (CVR). The Commission revealed that a total of 10,487,972 eligible voters commenced the online pre-registration process but only 3,444,378 persons completed the exercise physically in line with its policy. According to a statement by INEC National Commissioner and Chairman Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye, a breakdown of the exercise, showed that "4,161,775 citizens attempted but either did not complete online pre-registration or abandoned it and went for the physical…

The health of the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, has worsened as he had been diagnosed with gastrointestinal disorder following persistent heartburn, his lawyer and human rights activist, Ifeanyi Ejiofor, said on Monday. According to him, despite the order of Justice Binta Nyako of a Federal High Court in Abuja that the IPOB leader should be given serious medical attention, the Department of State Services has been acting on the contrary. Kanu has been detained in DSS custody for about 14 months and is facing trial in court over alleged treason charges. Ejiofor raised the alarm in…

The Executive Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Muhammad Nami has disclosed that the mandate of the Service is to collect taxes that are due to the federation and the Federal Government not to grant tax waivers to any taxpayer in the country. Nami stated this in a swift reaction to the news making the rounds that some companies among them Dangote Sinotruck Limited, Lafarge, Honeywell, etc had been granted tax waiver on pioneer status between 2019 and 2021 in the sum of N16 trillion by the FIRS and the other Federal Government agencies. In his reaction, Nami…

In what appears to be the biggest singular cocaine seizure in the history of Nigeria’s premier anti-narcotic agency, operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have busted a major warehouse in a secluded estate in Ikorodu area of Lagos where 1.8tons (1,855 kilograms) of the illicit drug worth more than Two Hundred and Seventy Eight Million Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollars ($278, 250,000) equivalent of about One Hundred and Ninety Four Billion, Seven Hundred and Seventy Five Million (N194, 775,000,000) Naira in street value were seized. At least, four drug barons including a Jamaican and the warehouse…

Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo of the Ikeja Special Offences Court on Monday sentenced kidnap kingpin, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, also known as Evans, and his co-defendant, Victor Aduba, to 21 years imprisonment for kidnapping one Sylvanus Hafia. They were accused of conspiring and kidnapping Sylvanus Ahanonu Hafia at about 5:30 pm on June 23, 2014, at Kara Street, Amuwo Odofin in Lagos and were alleged to have captured and detained Hafia and demanded a ransom of $2m. But they pleaded not guilty to the four charges. According to The Punch, the judge held that the sentence would serve as a deterrent to other…

The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has blocked roads leading to the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos. The mass action is in continuation of their protest against the ongoing industrial action by the Academic Staff Union of Universities. Students, who defied the heavy downpour, caused gridlock on the road leading to the airport leaving many travellers stranded. The Nation observed operatives from the Lagos State Police Command, RRS operatives, Lagos Airport Police Command, and other security agencies are on ground. The protesting students carried placards chanting Aluta songs to register their displeasure over the actions of the Federal…

A federal high court in Abuja has dismissed a suit filed by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) seeking the disqualification of Bola Tinubu, presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), and Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party. In the suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/1016/2022, the PDP had challenged the propriety of the substitution of the running mates for the APC and the Labour Party. It prayed the court to compel the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to prevent Tinubu and Obi from replacing their running mates with Kashim Shettima and Datti Baba-Ahmed respectively. The party asked the court to…

Governor Charles Soludo of Anambra state has revealed that 100 percent of the criminals perpetrating chaos in his state and other states in the region are Igbos. The governor made this known on Sunday, September 18 during an interview on Channels TV’s programme "Politics Today" monitored by THE WHISPERER. He stated that insecurity has been laid to rest over the past three months in the state due to several joint operations by security agencies. When asked about the identity of these perpetrators if they are agitators or invaders from other regions, he said: "They are plain criminals. Some of these…

The Anambra State Governor, Charles Soludo, has explained why insecurity and kidnapping are rife in the state, saying the economic situation of Anambra among South-East states made it a target of criminals. He said that with the spate of insecurity in the state, his administration has put in place numerous measures to end the menace. Soludo who stated this on Sunday during an interview on Channels TV’s Politics Today, maintained that those perpetrating criminalities in the state are Igbo. The former Central Bank of Nigeria governor also stated that contrary to claims, those perpetrating criminalities are known and not unknown…