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The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has disclosed that it would deploy over 200,000 Bimodal Voter Accreditation System, BVAS in the 2023 general elections. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has extended the deadline for the collection of Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs) until Sunday 29th January 2023. Recall that INEC had earlier fixed the collection deadline as Sunday, 22nd January, ... Read More »

A Naval Rating has been arrested for his alleged complicity in the death of a 16-year-old girl, Miss Nengi Enenimiete, whose corpse was found in the wardrobe of a hotel in Twon Brass, Brass Local Government Area of Bayelsa State. It was gathered that the Navy in conjunction with the operatives of the police and the community youths identified and ... Read More »

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El-Zakzaky made this disclaimer through one of his lawyers, Marshall Abubakar, ashe described the rumours as false and urged Nigerians to disregard them. Marshall said, “That is fake news. I can confirm to you that there is nothing of such, though some presidential candidates have reached out to him, he has refrained from endorsing any of them because he believes ... Read More »

As people all over the world, irrespective of religious beliefs and status, were rejoicing and praising God for sparing their lives to witness the beginning of 2023, the family of Fatinoye in Abeokuta, Ogun State capital, was thrown into sorrow, anguish and pains, as yet-to-be-identified persons snuffed lives out of Mr Kehinde and Mrs Bukola Fatinoye, few minutes after they ... Read More »

After a brief illness, the notable and experienced photojournalist succumbed to the cold hands of death on Thursday, January 5, 2023. Kuti, known as ‘Eshin’ in the media and beyond, was a friendly journalist who nurtured and handled his craft with zeal and professionalism. The NUJ Lagos chairman, Adeleye Ajayi, issued a statement in which he expressed condolences to the ... Read More »

The Federal Government yesterday served a notice to the three tiers of government that all payments from the public treasury beyond the threshold approved for daily cash limit by the Central Bank of Nigeria must be done electronically with effect from March 1, 2023. In effect, the Nigerian Financial and Intelligence Unit, NFIU, which made the announcement, warned that anyone ... Read More »

Tragedy struck in Ikere-Ekiti, on Monday morning when a middle aged man simply identified as Kehinde slumped and died during an alleged sex romp with a lover at a hotel somewhere in the community. Multiple sources in Ikere-Ekiti revealed that the deceased, a popular native doctor in the community had lodged in the hotel with his lover, whose identity could ... Read More »

Two teenage girls are currently at death’s door after selling their organs for N100,000 each to a medical doctor at Redwood Specialist Hospital, Abeokuta, Ogun State. The girls involved are a 17-year-old Precious Ikechukwu, daughter of Bishop Ikechukwu Umeayo, the Founder of Living Word Anointed Gospel Mission, located at Iyana-Ipaja in Lagos, and her father’s Secretary, 19-year-old, Theresa Obam. Precious ... Read More »

THE Lagos State Government, yesterday, announced Messrs CCECC-CRCCIG Consortium as the preferred bidder for the construction of the proposed Fourth Mainland Bridge project. Governor Bababjide Sanwo-Olu had assured residents to announce the preferred bidder before January 1, 2023. The project, estimated to cost about $2.5 billion, would be delivered through Public-Private Partnership initiative and tolled for two years. Special Adviser ... Read More »