The Independent Corrupt Practices and other related Offences Commission, ICPC, on Sunday warned airport workers and travellers to desist from offering and receiving bribes. The Commission said it has commenced secret surveillance at the nation’s airports to check corrupt practices. Nta Ekpo, ICPC Chairman, who was a guest on focus, an African Independent Television, AIT,…
PDP Cancels Governorship Primary in Ogun State
The National Working Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has cancelled the governorship primary election earlier scheduled to hold in Ogun State today. In a statement issued in Abuja today by Olisa Metuh, the party’s National Publicity Secretary, the PDP said that the primary election was not authorized. “For the avoidance of doubt, the…
8,000 Delegates To Vote At APC Presidential Primary
At least 8,000 delegates drawn from 36 states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory, FCT are expected to participate in the national convention and the presidential primaries of the All Progressives Congress, APC, billed for December 10 and 11, 2014 in Lagos State. The party’s presidential flag bearer would be elected out of…
CENCOD Holds Democracy Lecture
The 12th annual democracy lecture was held today at the Lagos Airport hotel Ikeja, Lagos. The lecture which had the title, “Democratization of Africa: Progress or Erosion,” looked into successive democratic governments in Nigeria from the beginning of the current dispensation in 1999. Gabrielle Lynch, lecturer in the department of politics and international studies, University…
Al-Qaeda chief Killed by Pakistan Military
Adnan el Shukrijumah, a senior al-Qaeda militant, accused of planning to bomb trains in New York and London, has been killed in Pakistan, the country’s military says. The military announced Shukrijumah’s death in a statement, saying that he was killed along with two other suspected militants in Pakistan’s South Waziristan tribal area early Saturday. South…
Hostages killed during Yemen Rescue Bid
Luke Somers, US journalist and Pierre Korkie, South African teacher have been killed by al-Qaeda militants in Yemen during a failed rescue bid. The operation, which was carried out on Saturday, was done by a joint US and Yemeni special forces in the southern Shabwa region In a statement, Chuck Hagel, Defense Secretary said that…
APC Accuses DSS Of Torture
The All Progressives Congress, APC, has accused the Department of State Security Services, DSS of using torture to obtain forced confessions from the workers who were arrested during a raid on the party’s Data Centre in Ikeja, Lagos. The party said the action was in contravention of the UN Convention against Torture to which Nigeria…
Jonathan honors Osundare with NNOM Award
President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday, in Abuja, decorated Professor Niyi Osundare, poet, essayist, dramatist, academic and public affairs commentator with the Nigerian National Order of Merit, NNOM, award. He was presented with a medal and certificate while the award also has N10 million cash reward, which the President said would be made available to the…
APC Guber Primaries: Voting Still Ongoing In Lagos
Delegates from seven out of the twenty local government areas of Lagos State have so far voted in the ongoing primary election of the All Progressives Congress, APC in the state. The local government areas that have voted and the number of delegates from each one is Epe: 291; Badagry: 305; Ikorodu: 498; Ibeju-Lekki: 189;…
Lagos APC Primary
Lagos State APC chairman, Henry Oladele Ajomale urges delegates to dismiss SMS purportedly sent by him to canvass for votes for Olasupo Shasore, one of the APC gubernatorial aspirants.
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