Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General KT Minimah has declared that any politician or group of politicians who instigate violence during the elections should be ready to face organized violence in return. “Regarding the question of security before, during and post elections, I want to say the Armed Forces, the Police and other security organisations have made adequate arrangements for security during the general and local elections in a few days and a few weeks coming,” he said. “I do not envisage any issues because this is just an election and it will come and go; though we know there…
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Nigeria has shut its land and sea borders and will suspend international flights to and from Nigeria by midnight today as Nigerians go to the polls on Saturday to elect the President and members of the National Assembly on March 28. “All borders will effectively be closed from midnight March 25, to midnight Saturday, March 28 to allow for the peaceful conduct of the forthcoming national elections,” a statement by the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Interior, Abubakar Magaji, said. The statement added that the Nigeria Immigration Service had been directed to ensure that non-Nigerians do not participate in any part…
Two journalists working for Aljazeera Television have been arrested by the military in Maiduguri, Borno State capital. They were allegedly loitering around areas where military operations are onging when “restrained” The journalists, Ahmed Idris and Mustafa Andy were reported to have been moving around various locations including restricted areas in Yobe and Borno State. They were also said to be operating without any protection, accreditation or due clearance. “They were accordingly monitored by military intelligence operatives until they eventually had to be restrained to their hotel in Maiduguri,” a statement by the Defence headquarters said. “The motive, activities and some…
The Federal Government, yesterday, denied reports of a mass kidnapping by Islamist group Boko Haram, in recently retaken Damasak, Borno State as widely reported. “There is no fresh kidnapping in Damasak,” Coordinator of National information centre, Mike Omeri told AFP. Residents of Damasak had claimed that the insurgents kidnapped over 400 women and children. “They took 506 young women and children, killing about 50 of them before leaving”, a trader, Souleymane Ali, told Reuters. “We don’t know if they killed others after leaving, but they took the rest with them”. Lt.-Col. Toumba Mohamed, the Nigerien commander of the Niger-Chad forces…
Chairman of the Independent Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Attahiru Jega, Wednesday, said he remained unfazed by attacks on his integrity and person over the deployment of card readers for elections. According to him, only those who had plans to manipulate the outcome of the elections have been complaining and fighting against the use of the technology. “[…] they have been attacking me because they know that the card reader machines will help us to address all those irregularities, starting from the accreditation of voters at all the polling units. How can they manipulate the election when all the information with…
29-year-old Luke Nnaemeka Ugwu, studying at a private college in Malaysia, has been sentenced to death by hanging by a Malaysian High Court for drug trafficking. Ugwu, who was found guilty of trafficking 725.4gm of methamphetamine in 2012, was sentenced by Justice Datuk Abdul Alim Abdullah of the High Court Shah Alam on Friday, according to Malaysian National News Agency, Bernama. He committed the offence at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport arrival hall in on May 15, 2012. However, two other Nigerian students escaped a similar sentence after one of them, Onyeme Chibunna Okechukwu, 31, pleaded guilty to an alternative…
Assistant Inspector-General of Police (AIG), Zone 2 Command — covering Ogun and Lagos States — Joseph Mbu has warned that anyone caught involved in election violence under its jurisdiction would face the wrath of the law. Mbu said this on Tuesday, after a meeting with Commissioners of Police (CP) and their Deputies (DCP) under his command at Zone 2 headquarters, Onikan, Lagos. “Anybody found with dangerous weapon – firearm, cutlass, axe or anything that can cause injury to a person, will be demobilised and such weapons forcefully recovered from them,” the News Agency of Nigeria quoted him to have said.…
A Peoples Democratic Party stalwart in Abia State has described the recent rally in Umuahia by former governor of the state, Orji Uzor Kalu, as a farewell dance to political relevance. Charles Ogbonanya, the deputy chief of staff to the Abia State governor, said in a press release in Abuja on Monday that the crowd that accompanied Mr. Kalu in the march merely did so for the money they were allegedly offered, adding that the event sounded a death knell on the former governor’s political career. Mr. Ogbonanya appealed to members of the public to ask Mr. Kalu why it…
The All progressives Congress (APC) vice presidential candidate, Prof Yemi Osinbajo (SAN), has said President Goodluck Jonathan is tired and overwhelmed by governance, so he must be voted out on Saturday for Nigeria to regain political and economic freedom. According to Osinbajo, the Peoples Democratic Party-led government has grounded the economy of the country through pervasive corruption and other socio-economic problems in the last 16 years. Speaking at a town hall meeting with members of APC in Ado Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital on Monday, Osinbajo said a vote for Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), was a vote for deliverance from the shackles of “poverty,…
As the Nigerian military alongside its Chadian, Nigerien and Cameroonian counterparts tighten the noose around Boko Haram in Northeast Nigeria, residents of Damasak in Borno State have claimed that the insurgents kidnapped over 400 women and children. This latest claim of mass abduction is reminiscent of the Chibok schoolgirls’ saga, where over 200 girls were abducted in one fell swoop from their hostels about a year ago. According to the residents, the insurgents took the women and children with them as they left the town after it was freed by troops from Niger and Chad, a few days ago. “They…
The First Lady, Patience Jonathan, has appealed to Nigerians to guard against manipulations by opposition parties during forthcoming elections. She urged Nigerians to ensure their votes count during Saturday’s presidential polls, dismissing an earlier directive of the Inspector General of Police that voters leave polling units after casting their ballots. Suleiman Abba, the Police IG, had warned that it would amount to people taking laws into their hands if voters stay back to protect their votes. He assured the police will protect all votes, a pledge that has been rejected by opposition parties. Speaking at the ruling Peoples Democratic Party,…
With less than five days to the presidential and National Assembly elections, the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) has warned that it would deal decisively with any of its officers who aids and abets any unscrupulous politician in electoral malpractices. The Assistant-Inspector General of Police (AIG) in charge of Zone 11, AIG Ikemefuna Okoye, gave the warning on Monday in Akure, the Ondo State capital. He promised to penalize any police officer who refuses to remain neutral during the elections. Zone 11 comprises of the Osun, Ondo (Headquarters) and Oyo police commands. Mr. Okoye said the primary function of the police was…
National Coordinator of the Yoruba militant group, Oodua Peoples Congress, Chief Gani Adams, has said his group’s grouse against former Lagos Governor, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and his party, the All Progressives Congress, stems from Mr. Tinubu’s instruction to governors of the South-West states under the platform of the party not to deal with or empower the OPC. Mr. Adams said this at a press conference in Lagos on Tuesday in reaction to reports that the OPC has been paid to disrupt the forthcoming general elections in the South-West. He said while Mr. Tinubu plotted to destroy the OPC by denying…
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Nollywood actress Ruth Kadiri has released another set of sexy, beautiful new set of pictures which you cannot afford to miss. Ruth Kadiri, who is one of the faces to watch out for in Nollywood, is not only a great actress but a great scriptwriter too. The young actress has been wowing audiences with her acting prowess as an actress and writer on many occasions. The beautiful robust actress has featured in many popular Nigerian films. It would be recalled that she was endorsed and certified as a great actress by Actress Uche Jombo because of her script-writing skills and…
The women’s wing of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Edo State chapter, has decried attempts by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to misrepresent the statement credited to Mrs Aisha Buhari, wife of the APC presidential candidate, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), at the recent South-South women’s rally of the party in the state. In a statement signed by the State’s women leader, Dr (Mrs.) Aisosa Amadasun in Benin, the state capital, APC said the mischief and ill-will evident in recent publications misrepresent the utterances of Mrs. Buhari, which depict the usual desperation of the PDP to misinform Nigerians for cheap political…
Ahead of this weekend’s Presidential and National Assembly elections, the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), yesterday called on youths, particularly his die-hard supporters, not to take arms to the polling units on Saturday. He made the call at the IBB Square in Bauchi, the Bauchi State capital, during the APC Northeast zonal rally. Gen. Buhari, accompanied by former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, Governors Kashim Shettima (Borno), Ibrahim Gaidam (Yobe) and the APC governorship candidates in Bauchi and Gombe states, was welcomed by a massive crowd. Urging his supporters to be law abiding, the APC flag…
President of the Kaduna State-based Civil Rights Congress and senatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kaduna Central, Comrade Shehu Sani, has said the President Goodluck Jonathan administration has never been interested in ending the Boko Haram insurgency. He said the president frustrated efforts to end the insurgency. Speaking at a sensitisation workshop organised by the Buhari/Osinbajo Youths Support Groups and the Proud Talakawa Movement (PTM), Sani said when effort was being made to end the insurgency, it became clear that the Jonathan administration wanted it to linger. He alleged that the country had witnessed looting of public treasury…
The governorship candidate of Labour Party in Kwara State, Dr Mike Omotosho, has said that the outcome of the April governorship election in the state will shock many as he will emerge victorious. Omotosho, who described as insulting, speculations that he had pulled out from the race, said the incumbent Governor and candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Abdulfatah Ahmed and his Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, counterpart, Senator Simeon Ajibola, have nothing to offer. Addressing journalists in Ilorin, the state capital on Tuesday, the LP flag bearer also directed his teaming supporters to vote for President Goodluck Jonathan on…