By Angela Atabo The Electoral Hub, a civil society organisation, has called on political parties and candidates to adhere to the ideals of democratic contests during the Bayelsa, Imo and Kogi governorship elections. Director of the organisation, Princess Hamman-Obels, made the call in a statement on the off-cycle governorship elections.Continue Reading
By Femi Ogunshola Gov. Mohammed Bago of Niger has pledged to pursue development initiatives and inject fresh ideas, policies and programmes in the state to advance the welfare of the people of his state. Bago said this at a dinner hosted in honor of the House of Representatives Press CorpsContinue Reading
By Ebere Agozie/Pauline Ochai The Federal Government says it will review the 2017 national policy on justice in order to encapsulate Sexual and Gender Based Violence (SGBV) matters. Justice Minister, Lateef Fagbemi, SAN, said this on Tuesday in Abuja in his keynote address at a high-level engagement with states onContinue Reading
By Angela Atabo Labour Party has vowed to stage a peaceful protest over Gov. Douye Diri of Bayelsa’s alleged outright refusal to conduct local government elections. The Factional National Chairman of the party Lamidi Apapa, made this known in a statement in Abuja. Apapa urged the Bayelsa State Independent ElectoralContinue Reading
A father who previously crawled the London Marathon dressed as a gorilla is to walk the famous event backwards this year as a means of “looking over my shoulder for Ukraine.” Tom Harrison, who lives in Amersham, Buckinghamshire in the UK, and works in project management, said there were severalContinue Reading
By Emmanuel Afonne Major streets in Kubwa, a popular satellite town in Abuja, were on Saturday turned into football playing fields in spite of the large turnout of voters at various voting centres in the area. A correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) who went round the centresContinue Reading
