Politics

ANALYSIS: AS INEC PHASES OUT PVC, CAN NIN BE AN ALTERNATIVE? The introduction of the PVC and smartcard readers in 2015 piloted the integration of technology into Nigeria’s electoral system. Nigeria’s electoral body, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), plans to gradually phase out the permanent voter card (PVC) as the sole means of identification for voter accreditation on Election …

KWANKWASO, ADELEKE SET TO REJOIN APC President Bola Tinubu may have commenced restructuring of the All Progressives Congress (APC) National Working Committee (NWC) to pave the way for former Kano State governor, Senator Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso, to rejoin the party. A source in the APC confirmed that President Tinubu’s appointment of the party’s national chairman, Abdullahi Ganduje, as board chairman …

TRUMP PARDONS 23 PRO-LIFE ACTIVISTS WHO WERE PROSECUTED FOR PEACEFUL PROTEST President Trump pardoned 23 peaceful pro-life protesters today who the White House says were unjustly targeted for prosecution by the Biden Administration. In signing the pardons, Trump said what the Biden Administration had done to them was “ridiculous.” “Twenty-three people were prosecuted, they should not have been prosecuted – …

COURT AWARDS N100M DAMAGES AGAINST EXPELLED PDP VICE CHAIRMAN A Federal High Court sitting in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State on Friday awarded N100 million as damages against the expelled former National Vice Chairman, South-East, of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Mr. Ali Odefa. Twenty PDP members including executives of the party in Oguduokwor, Onicha Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, had …

TRUMP ON RAMPAGE AS US AGENTS RAID WORKSITES, ARREST OVER 500 ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS, DETAIN 373, DEPORT HUNDREDS The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has confirmed the arrest of 583 individuals in a large-scale crackdown on illegal immigration. ICE agents have been raiding some worksites in New Jersey as the security operatives begin the execution of President Donald Trump’s …

RIVERS CRISIS: MISSING DOCUMENTS STALL PRO-FUBARA LAWMAKERS SUIT AGAINST PRO-WIKE LAWMAKERS A Federal High Court in Port Harcourt, presided over by Justice Emmanuel Obile, has adjourned the case challenging the legitimacy of Martin Amaewhule as Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly, along with 26 others following their defection. The case was delayed due to the alleged mysterious disappearance …

TRUMP ORDERS RELEASE OF LONG-SECRET FINAL FILES ON JFK, RFK, MLK ASSASSINATIONS President Trump on Thursday ordered the declassification and release of long-secret files on the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, his brother Robert F. Kennedy and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. Trump, 78, announced the actions in the Oval Office — after decades of speculation and …

LOTS OF NIGERIANS WILL BE CAUGHT IN THE WEB. OF TRUMP’S BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP BAN – AKANDE A former presidential media aide, Laolu Akande, has faulted President Donald Trump’s executive order banning birthright citizenship. The former lecturer of African history at New York College expressed this while speaking on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily on Thursday. The move was part of Trump’s …

FEDERAL JUDGE BLOCKS TRUMP’S BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP EXECUTIVE ORDER A federal judge in Seattle has signed a temporary restraining order blocking President Donald Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship. U.S. District Judge John Coughenour on Thursday heard a request made by four Democratic-led states to issue a temporary restraining order against the executive order signed by Trump that purports to limit …

TRUMP REVOKES EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY ACT OF 1965 President Trump issued a sweeping executive order Tuesday night revoking decades of diversity and affirmative action practices in federal government. Why it matters: This takes the current anti-DEI activism on diversity, equity and inclusion to a new level — abolishing decades of government standards on diversity and equal opportunity, and seeking to …