The All Progressives Congress (APC) has won the chairmanship in 20 of the 23 local government areas (LGAs) contested in Saturday’s Rivers State Chairmanship and Councillorship elections, the Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission (RSIEC) announced on Sunday. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) won the remaining three LGAs. RSIEC chairman Dr Michael Odey declared the results at the commission’s headquarters on Aba Road, Port Harcourt. He said winners of the vice-chairmanship contests had been declared, while...

Former president of Centre for Committee of Defence of Human Rights (CDHR), Malachy Ugwumadu has said that the electorate should decide the leadership recruitment at the polling booths and not at the courts. Ugwumadu stated this on Arise TV yesterday when he gave reasons why the call for electoral and judicial reforms should be supported ahead of the 2027 general elections. He said, “Leadership recruitment process must be a function of the direct participation of the...

The pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, has sought urgent intervention over the onslaught by bandits in parts of Kwara State, leading to the kidnapping of a monarch’s family members and the sacking of about 16 communities, as well as the kidnapping of Pastor Ayodeji Akesinro from his home in Upenme, Owo, Ondo State, on Thursday. The organisation’s National Publicity Secretary, Comrade Jare Ajayi, in a release yesterday, lamented over the kidnap of a 7-year-old boy in...

The National Orientation Agency (NOA) has launched a firm campaign to curtail what it terms extreme and indecent “sign-out” ceremonies among graduating students in Nigerian tertiary institutions. This announcement was made by the Director-General of NOA, Mallam Lanre Issa-Onilu, represented at the event by Deputy Director-General Anita Ukamaka, during the flag-off of a nationwide drive to promote government policies, programmes, and national values. Issa-Onilu expressed deep concern over growing tendencies among students to deface their...