Human Interest

The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmood Yakubu in an exclusive  interview granted to IVOTES’ Editorial Board Chairman ,Edmund Obilo , has declared that he is not the president’s man. He spoke on a range of issues like the recent inconclusive elections in Kogi and Bayelsa …

President Mohammadu Buhari has said he is angry over the news of latest cruel attacks on a mosque in Maiduguri, Borno State, describing Boko Haram, perpetrators of the dastardly act, as a group of mindless and godless people. He was reacting to the early morning attacks which claimed over 20 …

THE Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria, AMCON, Wednesday admitted before an investigative panel of the House of Representatives that its current liabilities stand at N6.6 trillion following purchase of bad loans worth N3.3 trillion at the sum of N1.7 trillion. This was disclosed by the Managing Director of AMCON, Ahmed …

CONTRARY to its earlier promise to pass the 2016 budget today, the Senate, has given Tuesday, next week,as the day it would pass the budget. The Red Chamber, which had also,earlier assured that its Committee on Appropriation would lay the various reports of committees collated, before it during yesterday’s plenary, …

Dangote Group, owned by Africa’s richest man Aliko Dangote, opened a tomato-processing factory near Nigeria’s northern city of Kano aimed at vying for the local market with imports from China. “We have fully started operations today and the target is 1,200 metric tons per day,” Abdulkareem Kaita, managing director of …

President Barack Obama nominated veteran appellate court judge Merrick Garland to the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday, setting up a potentially ferocious political showdown with Senate Republicans who have vowed to block any Obama nominee. Considered a moderate, Garland, 63, is currently chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals …

Global soccer body FIFA has applied to U.S. authorities for tens of millions of dollars in damages from ex-officials indicted there for graft and recognized for the first time executives had in the past “sold” votes in World Cup hosting contests. Gianni Infantino, recently elected president to clear out the …

  Here is the official song to the most anticipated single by the prolific singer IBROCHIZYY titled “Stay With You” and he features the Queen of love AZEEZAT, The only female Director at the Copyright society of Nigeria (COSON). Ibrochizyy’s Fans and music lovers demanded the release of the cut …

A pregnant woman, her four children and a commercial motorcyclist were crushed by a Hilux pick-up van along old Oleh-Ozoro Road, Oleh, Isoko South Local Government Area, Delta State. The woman, who sold electrical appliances, sources said, had boarded a motorcycle with the children after close of sales for the …

About a week ago, before the Ooni of Ife married his new bride, Wuraola Zynab Otiti, one unknown Zainab wrote an open letter alleging that she was still married to her ex husband amongst other things , but many assumed it was just the rantings of a jealous frenemy. If …