The United Kingdom Border Agency has arrested 10 Nigerians over sham marriages and immigration fraud over the winter, which has so far led to the arrest of over 200 foreign nationals.

Yola – The Immigration Command in Adamawa has accused some politicians of mobilising foreigners to register in the ongoing voter registration.

Gombe – Some women in Bozon-Shilwa in Dukku Local Government Area of Gombe State are demanding for insecticide-treated mosquito nets before participating in the voter registration. The District Head of Bozon-Shilwa, Alhaji Umaru Gurama, dropped the hint on Wednesday in Gombe in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN). Gurama said that the […]

Abeokuta – A 34-year-old commercial driver, Michael Odubona, has told a Grade I Customary Court, sitting in Ake, Abeokuta that his wife, Kehinde, is a thief.

Umuahia – INEC has distributed 468 additional Direct Data Capture Machines (DDCM) for the ongoing registration in the state, an official has said.

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State has approved the release of about N500 million loan facility for 100 youths who participated in the Agricultural Youth Empowerment Scheme (Agric-YES) aimed at boosting food production in the state.

Abuja – The National Sports Commission (NSC), said in Abuja that it would budget N3.3 billion for the country’s preparations and participation at the 10th All-Africa Games.

A FRESH showdown looms in the polity as the national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday dared the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, saying it cannot stop it from conducting fresh primaries in some states.

The Chairmen of the Nigerian Inter-Religious Council, NIREC, Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar and Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, have called on the Federal Government to find lasting solution to the ethno-religious crises in Plateau and Borno States which have recorded heavy casualties. They made the call at the 2011 general meeting of NIREC in Ibadan yesterday.

ANAMBRA State resident electoral commissioner, Prof Chukwuemeka Onukaogu, said yesterday in Awka that he had been receiving death threats from some people in the state whose communities were yet to receive materials for the ongoing voters’ registration across the country.

Federal Government, yesterday, said it was now ready for the prosecution of Fidelis Anosike and his brother, Noel, their company Folio Communications Ltd, one Nicholas Okoye and Gogo Kurubo for criminal conspiracy over the purchase of Daily Times of Nigeria in the matter before a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos.

The Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, said yesterday that the emergence of President Goodluck Jonathan as the PDP presidential candidate is legally and morally wrong, adding that the north must produce the next president.

THE Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, yesterday, tightened money supply into the economy, in anticipation of further rise in inflation, saying the economy grew by 7.85 per cent in 2010, up from 6.89 per cent in 2009.

WHILE reaffirming a bid to sustain growth in the nation’s telecoms industry via a six-point agenda in the next five years, it will not be business as usual as the industry regulator, the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, served notice that it would enforce compliance with, and strictly enforce extant regulations and directives.

President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday asked the Senate to approve a new law which will enable him increase the numbers of justices of the Court of Appeal from 70 to 90.