In a cleaning-up exercise ahead of 2023 general elections in Nigeria, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has delisted 1.1 million newly registered voters. Mr. Festus Okoye, INEC National Commissioner and Chairman of the Information and Voter Education Committee, disclosed this in a statement explaining that the cleaning up of the voter register using the Automated Biometric Identification System (ABIS) has been ongoing since the suspension of the Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) on July 31,...

Nigeria is the second most attacked and terrorised country in the world with Iraq and Syria being the first and third respectively. This is according to a report by Jihad Analytics, a global and international terrorism research/analysis group which speciallizes in collating data on terrorist’s activities worldwide. The report covering January to June 2022 revealed that Nigeria recorded 305 terrorist attacks while Iraq, the first on the list, recorded 337 attacks, and Syria which came...

Festus Keyamo, minister of state for labour and employment, has said the constitution doesn’t prohibit the vice-president from handling security matters. He said this while speaking at the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) conference in Lagos state. This was a reaction to a statement by Ifeanyi Okowa, governor of Delta and vice-presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Okowahad said it would be absurd for a vice-president to take charge of the nation’s security. According...

LAGOS — Femi Gbajabiamila, the speaker of the house of representatives, has said the meeting between ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo and Bola Tinubu, presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), provides an assurance of victory for Tinibu for the 2023 elections. Gbajabiamila spoke on Thursday at the Surulere LGA APC meeting in Lagos. The speaker, who was present at the meeting, said Obasanjo made encouraging statements about Tinubu’s aspiration and prayed for the APC candidate....

Abdullahi Adamu, national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has said the Muslim-Muslim ticket of his party is the best way to win the 2023 presidential election. Bola Tinubu, the APC presidential candidate, and Kashim Shettima, the vice-presidential candidate, are both Muslims. He said this during an interview with BBC Hausa on Thursday. The Muslim-Muslim ticket is the best strategy for the ruling party. “As a party, we are working because we want to...