INEC scores FCT Area Council elections below 40%, decries low turn out
NATIONAL Commissioner with the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in-charge of South East, Dame Gladys Nnenwafor, has decried the low turn out at the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Area Council elections conducted Saturday, saying that the turn out was below forty per cent.
First Lady’s tricycles for Katsina women
As part of the activities to mark the 2013 International Women’s Day, Dr. Fatima Ibrahim .Shehu Shema, wife of the governor of Katsina State, through her Women Empowerment Programme, distributed 204 tricycles popularly called Keke-NAPEP to six women each in each of the 34 local government areas of the state including 34 women living with HIV/ AIDS.
Pope Francis wants ‘poor Church for the poor’
Pope Francis called for “a poor Church for the poor” in an address to journalists from around the world on Saturday, as part of a charm offensive characterised by an informal style in contrast with the Vatican’s monumental halls of power.
Gunmen kill justice official in Kano
Gunmen have killed a senior judicial official in northern Nigeria’s largest city of Kano, police said Saturday.
Champions League: Ancelotti confident of Barcelona upset
Paris Saint-Germain coach Carlo Ancelotti is relishing the challenge of facing Champions League favourites Barcelona in the quarter-finals and believes his expensively assembled side are capable of producing an upset.
Swiss tourist gang-raped in India
A Swiss female tourist was gang-raped in central India in front of her husband, police said Saturday, renewing the focus on the issue of sexual violence against women in the South Asian nation.
The woman was on a cycling trip with her husband in impoverished Madhya Pradesh state when seven to eight men attacked the couple late Friday while they were camping, sexually assaulting the woman and robbing the pair, police said.
