Suspected BVAS Syndicate Arrested In Abuja
The police have reportedly arrested members of a syndicate suspected to be involved in the manipulation of the Bimordial Voters Accreditation System BVAS. The suspects were apprehended by the police in a sting operation on Ghandji street in the Maitama area of the FCT. Arise TV reports that the police has taken the suspects into custody and are investigating the...
Hoodlums Attack, Try To Burn Down INEC office
Hoodlums attacked the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) local government office in Kano state's Takai local government area. The hoodlums also attempted to set fire to the commission's office as a fight broke out between political supporters at Takai town's headquarters on Sunday morning. "The fire was set up from behind the building but it was quenched before it made serious...
Fire Razes Maiduguri Biggest Market, Destroys Goods Worth Millions Of Naira
Scores of traders at Maiduguri Monday Market, Borno State were left distraught as properties worth millions of naira were consumed by a raging inferno early Sunday morning. According to eyewitnesses, the fire started around between 2 and 3 am. No life was however lost in the tragic incident. As of daybreak, police fired gunshots to disperse the onlookers who had gathered at...
Appeal Court Rejects Abba Kyari’s Bail Application
The Court of Appeal in Abuja has dismissed an appeal by suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari. The appeal sought the reversal of an earlier ruling of a Federal High Court in Abuja which refused to grant his request for bail. Maintaining that Kyari’s appeal was without merit, Justice Stephen Adah who read the unanimous judgement of a three-man panel,...
EFCC Intercepts N32.4m New Naira Notes Allegedly Meant For Vote-buying In Lagos State
The massive operation by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to deter vote trading and other financial malfeasance ahead of tomorrow's presidential and national assembly elections may have begun paying dividends with the interception in Lagos of the sum of N32, 400,000 (Thirty-two Million, Four Hundred Thousand Naira) allegedly suspected to be used for vote buying in Lagos....
How Obasanjo Blocked 100 Trucks Carrying Nearly 1M Chadians From Entering Nigeria To Vote APC – Charly Boy
Charly Boy, a veteran activist, has taken to social media to reveal how former President Olusegun Obasanjo allegedly barred 1.5 million Chadians from entering the country to vote in the upcoming 2023 presidential election. The veteran singer, who made the announcement on his official Instagram page, stated that; “Obasanjo blocked 100 trucks containers carrying nearly 1.5 million Chadians from entering...
Buhari Arrives Katsina Ahead Saturday’s Presidential Elections
President Muhammadu Buhari has arrived in Katsina State, from where he will travel to Daura, his hometown, to vote in the Presidential and National Assembly elections on Saturday. Buhari's plane touched down at Katsina's Umaru Musa Yar' Adua Airport at 4:40 p.m. He is expected to vote in Daura for his preferred candidates later on Saturday. Prior to leaving Abuja for Katsina...
Two Beninese Kidnappers Arrested With Teenage Girl At Ogun Border
At the Idiroko border, in the Ipokia Local Government Area of Ogun State, two individuals who are allegedly citizens of the Republic of Benin have been detained. The two, Kazeem Moye (25 years old) and Kokuyi Moye (20 years old), were apprehended by members of the So-Safe Corps on Monday at around 2:45 a.m. while attempting to flee with a...
Politicians To Buy Votes In Kind, Abandons Cash – EFCC Chairman
We Have Intelligence That A Lot Of Politicians Have Bought Some Items That They Will Use To Buy Votes In Kind And Not In Cash – EFCC Chairman Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Abdulrasheed Bawa, on Wednesday, February 22, alleged that politicians are stockpiling old notes to buy votes in Saturday’s general elections. Bawa who made a claim...
Why Rivers House Of Reps Member Was Sent To Prison Two Days To Election
A Chief Magistrate’s Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State capital, has remanded the lawmaker representing Etche/Omuma federal constituency in the House of Representatives, Hon Ephraim Nwuzi, to the Nigerian Correctional Centre in the state. This followed a remand proceeding preferred against him by the Rivers State Police Command. The police had accused the federal lawmaker, who is also the All...
