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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 …

OBASANJO, BUHARI MAKE BRILLIANT DEFENCE FOR NIGERIA IN PARIS Former Nigerian Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo and Muhammadu Buhari have put up a brilliant defence for Nigeria before the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) in Paris, France, in an alleged breach of contract case against the federal government concerning the Mambilla Power Project. A firm, Sunrise Power, had instituted a $2.3 billion …

WIKE, FUBARA REFUSE TO GREET EACH OTHER DURING MEETING WITH TINUBU The two major gladiators in the festering Rivers state political crisis, the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Minister, Nyesom Wike and Governor Siminalayi Fubara allegedly refused to exchange pleasantries when they met with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in the Villa on Tuesday. Both Wike and Governor Fubara were part of …

ALLEGED TERRORISTS’ ATTACK, FALSE ALARM: ATTEMPT TO DISRUPT RELIGIOUS EVENT – KANO GOVT ACCUSES POLICE The Kano State Government has accused the police of attempting to disrupt an annual religious event. Addressing journalists at the Emir’s Palace on Friday evening, Commissioner for Information and Internal Affairs, Ibrahim Abdullahi Waiya, dismissed the alarm earlier raised by the police. Kano Police Command …

OSHIOMHOLE SAYS RETIRED GENERALS BEHIND ILLEGAL MINING The Senator representing Edo North in the National Assembly, Adams Oshiomhole, has alleged that retired military generals are behind illegal mining across the country. Oshiomhole, the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Interior, made the allegation on Friday when the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Solid Minerals Development, Sampson Ekong, submitted his …

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 – …

THANK YOU FOR ARRESTING SIMON EKPA, TINUBU TELLS FINLAND AMBASSADOR Nigeria’s president, Bola Tinubu has appreciated the Finnish government for arresting the self-acclaimed leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra. Tinubu while receiving Sanna Selin, Finland’s ambassador to Nigeria at the Presidential Villa on Friday, January 24, said he appreciates the intervention of the Finnish government in Ekpa case. He …

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 …

PROPOSED DECENTRALISATION OF SUPREME COURT: LAWYERS REACT Since the move by the House of Representatives to decentralise the Supreme Court of Nigeria became a public knowledge, Nigerians, particularly those in the legal profession, have been pouring accolades on the lawmakers for thinking along that line. On December 9, the House of Representatives introduced a bill seeking to create five divisions …