The Enugu State House of Assembly on Tuesday moved a motion of urgent public importance urging the President and Commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces, Federal Republic of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR to investigate and cause an enquiry into the role of the Military and Security Agencies in the March 18, 2023 Governorship and State House of Assembly Elections in Enugu State. Presenting the motion at the Hallowed chamber, Dr. Chinedu Nwamba, member representing Nsukka East...

The Nigerian Defence Headquarters has clarified the presence of United Nations (UN) fighting vehicles in Edo State. According to the military, the UN Peacekeeping fighting vehicles and equipment sighted recently in Benin, Edo State, were meant for deployment for a peacekeeping mission in South Sudan. Tukur Gusau, the Acting Director, Defence Information, made this known in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja. Gusau explained that the circulation of the video of the said equipment on social...

Mr. Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 general elections, has replied Lai Mohammed and other critic that resorting t the tribunal to recover his mandate doesn’t amount to treason. Obi said that he was saddened, on reading the press statement by the Nigerian Minister of Information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed in which he (Lai Mohammed) accused him and his running mate, Senator Datti Baba-Ahmed of inciting the citizens and thereby...

…Tells REC to recuse self from conducting supplementary election The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Adamawa State chapter has raised an alarm over the danger of continued stay in office of Mallam Hudu Yunusa Ari as Adamawa State Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) and asked him to recuse himself from that election coming up in 10 days. The party on Tuesday noted that from credible information available to it, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is stoking...

The minister of information, Lai Mohammed says Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party failed to meet the constitutional requirements to be declared the winner of the February 25 presidential poll. Mohammed said this in Washington DC, during his official engagements with some international media organisations on the 2023 general election. “The constitution has stringent criteria for anybody who wants to be president of the country. Not only must he has the plurality...

…Says PDP denied them access to INEC office The All Progressives Congress (APC), gubernatorial candidate in Rivers State in the just concluded general elections, Tonye Cole lamented over attacks by  the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) thugs at the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) office in Port Harcourt Rivers State. Cole stated  that the members of the ruling party in Rivers State threw stones and other weapons at him as he tried to access the office...

… Charges judiciary to resist being used to scuttle democracy Afenifere, the pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, has warned against plots to jeopardise the handing over of power to elected officers on May 29, 2023. It also cautioned against threat to democracy and calls by some people to institute Interim National Government (ING) in the country. Comrade Jare Ajayi, the National Publicity Secretary of Afenifere in a press statement on Monday, stressed that the release had become...