Senate begins deliberation to make card reader compulsory

Sunday Nwakannma The Senate on Wednesday started a fresh process to further amend the nation’s Electoral Act with a view to making the use of card reader compulsory for elections in Nigeria.Tagged ‘The Electoral Act (amendment) Bill, 2021 (SB. 680),’ the proposed legislation passed first reading on Wednesday.The Senate spokesperson, Senator Ajibola Basiru (Osun Central), […]

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Ogun trader laments as driver, motor boy abscond with N16m goods

Deji Lambo A driver, Eban-Prince Bekom, and his motor boy, Abiola Okon, are on the run after allegedly diverting goods worth over N16m belonging to their boss, Lateef Taofik.PUNCH Metro gathered that Taofik assigned the duo to convey confectionaries from FrieslandCampina WAMCO Nigeria Plc in the Ikeja area of Lagos State, to his warehouses in […]

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IPOB/MASSOB asylum: Offer to protect those who need it, UK replies Federal Govt

Adelani Adepegba and Edward Nnachi The United Kingdom has said that all asylum and human rights claims from Nigerian nationals are considered on their individual merits in accordance with its international obligations.The British government states that it has a proud history of providing protection to those who need it, in accordance with its international obligations […]

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Police launch probe into OAU student’s alleged suicide

Bola Bamigbola The Osun State Police Command, on Wednesday, said it had commenced investigation into the reported suicide by a 200-level student of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Emmanuel Adedeji.Emmanuel of the Department of Management and Accounting died on Tuesday after he allegedly consumed a poisonous substance.The deceased was said to have left a suicide […]

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Pantami was imam when ATBU Muslim community issued fatwa, killed my son in a mosque –Prof

Kayode Oyero Samuel Achi, a former lecturer at the Kaduna State University, Kaduna, explains to KAYODE OYERO how his son, Sunday, was killed at the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University mosque in Bauchi State when the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, was the Chief Imam of the university’s mosqueA former lecturer of Industrial […]

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