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Apostle Johnson Suleman has said that the two elections recently conducted in Nigeria have proven that the Permanent Voters Card used to cast votes during elections is useless. The clergyman stated this while preaching in his church yesterday, March 19. He berated politicians for using thugs to snatch ballot boxes during the elections. He also […]

The federal government has stated that the rise in food prices in the country is due to the effect of climate change. Recall that Nigeria’s food inflation has been on the rise and according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), the food inflation rate in February 2023 was 24.35 per cent on a year-on-year […]

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued an arrest warrant against President Vladimir Putin  of Russia over the unlawful deportation of children from Ukraine to Russia. Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, and since then thousands have been killed and property worth billions destroyed. On Friday, the ICC said the warrant became necessary following […]

The Lagos State Directorate of Public Prosecutions, Ministry of Justice, has ordered the arraignment of a Lekki-based pastor, Bishop Oluwafeyiropo Daniel, over the alleged rape of an assistant pastor of the church and another lady. Daniel is the founder of I Reign Christian Ministry, Ikota, Lekki, and has been trending on social media for making […]

The Presidency said, yesterday, that results of the February 25 presidential election came as a shock to many who had declared a winner before the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, did. It also urged security agencies to deal decisively with those out to perpetrate rigging in tomorrow’s governorship and state assemblies election, cautioning governors not to […]

Ahead of the March 18 governorship and state assembly elections, the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Usman Baba has ordered the restriction of all forms of vehicular movement on roads, waterways, and other forms of transportation, from 12 am to 6 pm on election day. However, those on essential services such as officials of the Independent […]

The Ogun State Police Command has arrested a 33-year-old woman, Ifeoma Ossai, for killing her 50-year-old landlord, Monday Oladele, after grabbing his manhood. The police spokesman, Abimbola Oyeyemi, said in a statement on Tuesday that the suspect was arrested following a report lodged at Sango Ota divisional headquarters by the deceased brother, Olaleye Taiwo. Oyeyemi […]

No fewer than 12.9 million cyberattacks have been recorded from within and outside the country during the just-concluded Presidential and National Assembly polls. The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Prof Isa Pantami, disclosed this on Tuesday, saying over 6.9 million attacks were recorded on election day alone. According to Pantami, the attacks were successfully […]

Beatrice Ekweremadu, the wife of former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, has denied involvement in the search for an organ donor for their ailing daughter, Sonia. Beatrice was last year arrested alongside her husband in the United Kingdom for allegedly trafficking a young man into the country to harvest his kidney. She denied the allegation […]

The Department of State Services, DSS, has said there are plans to cause a total breakdown of law and order in the country. The secret police said the plot was designed for execution after the governorship and state assembly elections. In a statement released on Wednesday by Peter Afunanya, DSS spokesperson, the DSS decried the […]

The legal tussle between the Labour Party, Peoples Democratic Party and the ruling All Progressives Congress over the outcome of February 25 presidential election has taken a new dimension following report that a combined team of 89 Senior Advocates of Nigeria have been engaged. Sources within the camp of the warring political parties said that […]

The Independent National Electoral Commission has postponed governorship and state assemblies elections earlier scheduled for Saturday to March 18. The commission took the decision at its management meeting in Abuja, which was convened on Wednesday after the Court of Appeal gave it the go-ahead to reconfigure   Bimodal Voter Accreditation machines. The meeting, which started at […]

The President-Elect, Bola Tinubu is seeking an order by the Court of Appeal to access sensitive materials used by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for the conduct of the February 25 presidential election. His counsel, Akintola Makinde, said he would need to inspect, scan and make photocopies of some of the electoral materials to […]

Governor Chukwuma Soludo of Anambra State has denied reports that he held a meeting with president-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu of the All Progressive Congress (APC), at Imo State Government House, Owerri, on how to stop the Labour Party presidential candidate, Mr. Peter Obi, from pursuing the process to reclaim the mandate through court. Tinubu, a […]

A soldier, Lance Corporal Nwobodo Chinoso, on Sunday killed himself after shooting three persons dead at the accommodation centre of the Forward Operating Base in Rabah, Sokoto State. Punch gathered that the victims include the Commander of the Forward Operating Base, Rabah Command, Lt. Sam Oladapo, the FOB, Rabah Command, Sergeant Major Iliyasu Inusa, and another […]

Ten family members were on Sunday around 5pm killed in a road accident on the Kaduna-Kachia highway while returning from a wedding in Kano State. City & Crime gathered the victims’ vehicle had a head-on collision with a lorry conveying firewood. A resident of Kachia, Isiyaku Musa Kachia, told City & Crime that all the […]