Edo REC scorns PDP’s boycott of rescheduled Assembly poll
THE Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, in Edo State, Mr Mike Igini, yesterday, described as laughable, the purported boycott of the last Saturday's rescheduled House of Assembly elections in some wards in Orhionmwon Local Government Area of the state by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the state.
Three injured as failed suicide bomber targets mosque in Potiskum
A botched suspected Boko Haram suicide attack targeting a group of Shiite Muslims injured three people in northeast Nigeria on Monday, witnesses told AFP.
Uche Chukwumerije never sat on the fence on issues – Buhari
President-elect, General Muhammadu Buhari, Monday said the demise of Senator Uche Chukwumerije was a diminishing blow to the generation of true progressives in Nigeria and the African continent.
Okupe warns APC: Elections over, stop your abuses, lies about Jonathan, aides
Doyin Okupe, the Senior Special Assistant on Public Affairs to President Goodluck Jonathan, has warned chieftains and supporters of the All Progressives Congress, APC, to desist from insulting the President and his aides.
Cattle breeders urges Buhari to recover grazing reserves, end cattle rustling
A Fulani community leader, Alhaji Dodo Oroji, has appealed to the incoming administration of Gen. Muhammadu Buhari to address the problems of grazing reserves and stop cattle rustling in order to save fulani herdsmen in the country.
Drag S/Africa to African Commission over attacks on Nigerians, SERAP tells Jonathan
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged the government of President Goodluck Jonathan to “urgently take legal action against the South African government before the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights to seek effective remedies, including adequate compensation, for Nigerian victims of xenophobic attacks in South Africa.”
