The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has urged security agencies to tackle menace of vote buying during party primaries for the Nov. 8 Anambra governorship election. INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu made the call during the regular meeting of the Inter-Agency Consultative Committee on Election Security (ICCES) on Tuesday in Abuja. Yakubu also tasked security…
South Korea’s Constitutional Court on Tuesday held the seventh hearing of the impeachment trial of President Yoon Suk-yeol, with the arrested president attending for the fifth time. Yoon, dressed in a suit and red necktie as in previous hearings, arrived at the courtroom in central Seoul at around 10:00 a.m. local time (0100 GMT). During…
An Ikeja High Court on Tuesday fixed March 11 for the arraignment of First City Monument Bank (FCMB) and three others over alleged forgery and mortgage fraud. Other defendants in the case are Okogun Polycarp, Batik Line International Ltd, and Bolaji Adebajo. Justice Ismail Ijelu, adjourned the arraignment due to the absence of the defendants…
The President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, has announced that the budget defense report for the N54.2 trillion 2025 budget will be presented to the Senate in plenary. He confirmed that members of the Committee on Appropriations will present the report either Wednesday or Thursday this week. Akpabio made this statement on Tuesday during plenary,…
Gov Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers has affirmed his administration’ commitment to prioritising the welfare and security of Corps Members and ensuring that their needs are consistently addressed and protected. Fubara made the remark at the closing ceremony of the 2024 Batch C Stream II Orientation Course for corps members at the National Youth Service Corps…
The UN human rights office, OHCHR, has called on Israel and Hamas to ensure that all people they are holding are treated humanely. OHCHR spokesperson Thameen Al-Kheetan, in a statement, stated that images of emaciated Israeli hostages and Palestinian detainees released as part of the first phase of the Gaza ceasefire agreement had been deeply…
Pope Francis sharply criticised U.S. President Donald Trump’s mass deportations of migrants in an open letter on Tuesday to U.S. Catholic bishops. The head of around 1.4 billion Catholics worldwide described the crackdown on irregular immigration initiated by Trump as a “major crisis” for the United States. A nation’s right to protect its population from…
The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Abubakar Sa’ad III and 45 other traditional rulers on Tuesday attended the coronation of the 2rd Shehu of Bama, Alhaji Umar Kyari El-Kanemi, as a first class Shehu. The El-Kenemi’s coronation which took place at Bama Stadium was also attended by Amb. Babagana Kingibe, and former governor of Borno, Alhaji…
UN Secretary-General António Guterres said that a return to war in Gaza must be avoided at all costs amid fears that the three-week-old ceasefire agreement between Hamas fighters and Israel is about to end. Guterres disclosed this in a statement relayed to journalists by UN Geneva spokesperson Rolando Gomez on Tuesday. “We must at all…
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and Airtel Nigeria have introduced the Nigeria Learning Passport (NLP), a digital learning programme, to a primary school in Lagos State. Chief of UNICEF Lagos Field Office, Celine Lafoucriere, announced this during a joint field trip by Airtel Nigeria and UNICEF to St Agnes Primary School, Maryland, Lagos. The…
