A tricycle operator, Mr. Okechukwu Nkwuda, 45, was reportedly stabbed in various parts of his body by yet-to-be identified assassins on January 23, 2023, along Nwezenyi/Ndukabi Road, in Izzi LGA of Ebonyi State. And the man died. Narrating the incident, Read more…
Month: March 2023
Beijing and Moscow are working together to shape “a more just multipolar world,” and ties between the two countries are now “at the highest level in their history,” President Vladimir Putin said in an article, released on the eve of Read more…
Crimea’s progress since re-joining Russia in 2014 has been very obvious when compared to the period of Ukrainian rule, the head of the republic’s State Council, Vladimir Konstantinov, said on Saturday. “We escaped poverty and infrastructural desolation, now turning into a Read more…
Police in Umuahia, Abia State, arrested an unidentified INEC ad hoc staff for allegedly attempting to smuggle one of the BVAS machines into one of the offices of Umuahia South Local Government, Ubakala at the request of a chieftain of Read more…
CIVIL society group, Connected Development, CODE, on Saturday decried the widespread attack and suppression of voters in a number of polling units during the governorship and State Houses of Assembly elections. CODE’s Chief Executive Officer, Hamzat Lawal, who briefed journalists Read more…
Former President, Olusegun Obasanjo was not present to vote at his polling unit 22, Ward 11, Olusomi compound,Totoro, area of Abeokuta-North local government area of the state, Ogun State in Saturday’s governorship and state houses of assembly elections. This was Read more…
Some thugs, suspected to be armed, invaded Metu Memorial Primary School in Odoakpu area of Onitsha, Anambra State, Saturday, attempted to snatch some ballot boxes. “The bad boys left before security could arrive the scene. Voting stopped temporarily after the Read more…
THE Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has shifted to Sunday 19 March, the Governorship and State Assembly elections in Asari-Toru Local Government Area (LGA) and parts of neighboring Degema LGA where it failed to conduct the polls due to lapses. Read more…
The race for the Anambra State House of Assembly seat for Nnewi North LGA is now history. It was a clinical finish for Ikedoji and his party, the Young Progressive Party (YPP). To put it mildly, it was a smackdown Read more…
What would ordinarily be dismissed as election season banters and vulgar abuse have for the 2023 general elections degenerated to the perfunctory recourse to and normalization of hate speech as a tool for political engagement. This worrisome development is rife Read more…
The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Friday alleged that Russian President Vladimir Putin and Children’s Rights Commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova may have committed war crimes by “deporting” and “transferring” children from Ukraine. Moscow has dismissed the move as preposterous and not Read more…
Less than 12 hours to the governorship and house of Assembly election, the Independent National Electoral Commission has given an insight into how polling unit results will be transmitted across the states of the federation. Controversy had trailed the failure Read more…