The keenly contested by-election for Ganye State Constituency of Adamawa State was conducted peacefully amidst allegations of vote buying and rigging which has been norms in Nigerian politics. At the end of the game, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Misa Musa Jauro, as the winner of the election. The returning officer for the election, Prof. Tukur Ahmed, said the APC candidate polled 15,923 votes...

Ahead of today’s (Saturday) by-elections in Kaduna State, allegedly earmarked for vote-buying, the Department of State Security Services (DSS) and Police on Friday evening arrested a suspected People’s Democratic Party (PDP) agent, Shehu Fantagi, with (₦25,963,000) at a hotel in the Kaduna metropolis. The money was allegedly earmarked for vote-buying, where he was said to be coordinating the distribution of the funds to influence voters in the Chikun/Kajuru Federal Constituency election. Confirming the incident in...

…Intersociety warns of Fulani jihadists’ plan to impose Sultanate, as attacks intensify across Africa Nigeria is at the centre of a grave plot to wipe out Christianity and indigenous cultures by 2075, replacing them with a Sultanate system, a human rights organisation has warned In a “facts-laden” special report, the International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law (Intersociety) accused the country of “headquartering 22 Islamic terror groups in Africa seeking to obliterate Christianity...

…Says Coalition Won’t Succumb To Anti-democratic Machination Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has said that the detention of former Governor Aminu Tambuwal by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is an agenda by President Bola Tinubu to intimidate and harass the opposition. Atiku, in a press statement on Tuesday, noted that the coalition won’t succumb to anti-democratic machinations to turn the country into a one-party state. It will be recalled that the EFCC detained...