About 1,076 persons who committed varying crimes during the 25 February and 18 March polls in Nigeria will be prosecuted, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, assured on Wednesday. The electoral offenders were arrested across 35 states with Ebonyi having the highest number of cases. Ebonyi has 64 cases involving 216 suspects and Edo is second with 22 cases and 80 suspects, while Anambra is third with 12 cases involving 66 suspects. Kaduna State is...

An assassination attempt targeted at Ehie Edison, the factional Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly, was aborted by the lawmaker’s security escorts on Sunday night. The lawmaker, at a press briefing yesterday, said two senior police officers led the gunmen who stormed his residence from the state police command. The gunmen, he said, attempted to force themselves into his residence but his security men warded them off. The State Assembly spokesperson Ken Uchendu,...

Federal universities in Nigeria would no longer remit 40 per cent of their internally generated revenue, IGR, to the federal government, the Minister of Education, Tahir Mamman said on Friday. Before the discontinuation of the policy, the remittance was set to commence this month. But Mamman, while speaking at the 75th Founder’s Day ceremony of the University of Ibadan, UI, said the policy was ill-timed. “The 40 per cent IGR automatic deduction policy stands cancelled....