[su_dropcap]M[/su_dropcap]ore arrests are on the way in the probe of the huge cash some oil companies pumped into the failed bid to change the 2015 presidential election results. Some of the cash has been recovered, The Nation report. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested some bankers. It plans to haul in some […]
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There seems to be more trouble for embattled former Petroleum Resources Minister Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke as the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is probing her involvement in a $115m (N23, 299,705,000billion) 2015 election bribery scandal. The anti-graft agency has detained two bankers in connection with the scandal. The agency has launched a manhunt for Ugonna […]
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[su_dropcap size=”4″]T[/su_dropcap]he grim economic situation in the country appears to be deepening by the day as 27 states in the country are finding it difficult to pay the salaries of their workers. President Muhammadu Buhari said this in his remarks at the second National Executive Committee meeting of the All Progressives Congress in Abuja on […]
Read More PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday vowed that his administration would not show mercy to any person in its ongoing anti-corruption war. He said his administration would pursue the anti-graft war relentlessly until Nigerians began to see how the nation’s elite conspired to run the country down. According to a statement by his Special Adviser on Media […]
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EKITI State Governor Ayodele Fayose has accused the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government of plotting to turn Nigeria into an Islamic country. Fayose described Nigeria as a free society and that would not be taken as an Islamic nation. He stated that the All Progressives Congress deceived Nigerians to steal the inheritance of the people […]
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THE order by the courts to rerun election will cost the country N10 billion, Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Prof Mahmud Yakubu has said. The rerun which must be conducted between now and March 19. Yakubu, while presenting the commission’s 2016 budget before the House of Representatives’ Committee on Electoral Matters, said the N10 billion […]
Read More The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has said that it has released the timetable for the conduct of rerun elections in Federal and State constituencies and senatorial districts across the country. The Court of Appeal had nullified 69 out of the state and federal elections conducted by INEC in 2015, and ordered reruns. The commission […]
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Security agents arrested a fake official of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) at Famgbe, Yenagoa. Nation report He was reportedly hired to help rig the election in the area. He reportedly made confessional statement indicting some government officials.
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A group, the Buhari Support Group (BSG), has accused the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), in Bayelsa State, Chief Timipre Sylva, of using President Muhammadu Buhari’s name to intimidate the officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), to sway victory in his favour in the inconclusive governorship election in the state. […]
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The Court of Appeal sitting in Owerri, the Imo State capital has nullified the judgment of the Abia State Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal, which upheld the election of Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia The Appellate Court therefore declared Alex Otti of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) as the governor of the state. It then […]
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The Bayelsa State Governor, Mr. Seriake Dickson, has put the average statistics of the voters that took part in the December 5, 2015 governorship election at 40 per cent, contrary to the claim of the opposition candidate, The Punch report. The governor, who said this in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Daniel Iworiso-Markson, […]
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The Court of Appeal, Abuja, on Wednesday upheld the verdict of the Rivers State governorship election petition tribunal which nullified the victory of Nyesom Wike in the April 11 governorship election in the state. The court’s three-man panel led by Justice M.B. Dongban-Mensem, ruled that Wike’s election did not conform with the Electoral Act. The […]
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