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The Bayelsa State Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Dr Emmanuel Alex-Hart, has urged eligible voters in the state to go for their Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs) to equip themselves as the general election draws closer. The REC gave the charge in a press briefing on Friday at the INEC headquarters in …

EFCC Given 7 Days Ultimatum To Initiate Criminal Charges Against Tinubu The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has been given a seven-day ultimatum to prosecute Bola Tinubu, an All Progressives Congress, APC, Presidential aspirant. Concerned Nigerians advocacy group, issued the ultimatum, in a letter addressed to the EFCC Chairman, …

The United States Government says it will continue to work closely with Nigeria’s security services on technical assistance, equipment, professional exchange and training opportunities. On Friday, the U.S. Department of Energy/National Nuclear Security Administration, through its Office of Nuclear Smuggling Detection and Deterrence (NSDD), presented five new mobile radiation detection …

Federal High Court dismisses 36 states’ suit against $418 Paris Club debt deduction A Federal High Court in Abuja on Friday dismissed the suit filed by the 36 states against the decision by the Federal Government to deduct $418 million from the funds standing to the credit of the states …

BREAKING: National Convention: Oyo APC Breaks Into Two, Inaugurates Factional Chairman The crisis rocking the Oyo State chapter of All Progressives Congress (APC) on Friday took another dimension, Sources gathered. The party is currently having two chairmen. Our correspondent recalls that the party had last year October elected a former …

Moves by President Muhammadu Buhari and the national leadership of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to pick the presidential candidate of the party for the 2023 general elections by consensus arrangement has sparked concerns of a major crisis within the party, Daily Independent has gathered. Party leaders, who spoke …

HE Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba, has ordered the immediate distribution of additional batches of uniforms, kits, accoutrements and body armours to police inspectors and other ranks. He further directed the allocation of 253 newly-procured operational and emergency vehicles to police formations across zonal and state commands nationwide. A statement …

Poland’s state energy company on Thursday said it would not pay for Russian gas in rubles, becoming the latest to reject Kremlin demands amid unprecedented sanctions on Moscow over its war in Ukraine. “We don’t see how we could,” PAP news agency quoted Pawel Majewski, head of state oil and …

Russia’s ambassador to Warsaw said on Thursday that Poland had blocked the Russian embassy’s bank accounts on the basis that they might be used to finance terrorist activity or launder money. “Our accounts have been blocked by a decision of the finance ministry, and then by a decision of the …

The general public is hereby notified that a news story in circulation with the above headline is a misrepresentation of the views of the Governor of Ekiti State, Dr Kayode Fayemi. Dr Fayemi at a policy dialogue organised by the Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD) in Abuja on Thursday, …