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Daily Post Nigeria Published The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has announced plans to create additional two thousand four hundred and twenty four polling units in Rivers State. The move takes the total number of polling units in the state to six thousand eight hundred and sixty six. The Resident Electoral Commission, REC in Rivers State, Obo Effanga who made the disclosure in a media briefing in Port Harcourt, said the last time additional polling units were created in Nigeri...

Daily Post Nigeria Published The ECOWAS Court of Justice will on June 29, 2021 deliver judgement in a suit against Nigeria and Cross River State, challenging the arrest and prosecution of a journalist, Agba Jalingo. The publisher was charged under the Cybercrime, Terrorism and Criminal Code Acts. At a virtual court session, the court heard his oral testimony. Led in evidence by Kolawale Oluwadare, the counsel representing the applicant, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), ...

Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde has declared that the maladministration of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) will not extend beyond 2023. He noted that Nigerians were already tired of the party and would kick it out of power at the polls. Makinde spoke on Wednesday at the inauguration of the South-West PDP Zonal Executives, held at the Government House in Agodi, Ibadan. He said there was an urgent need to address the challenges of insecurity and economic recession. Makinde told the PD...

ECOWAS Court to deliver judgment on Nigerian journalist, Agba Jalingo’s ‘unlawful’ detention, trial SERAP which filed the suit on behalf of the journalist asks the ECOWAS Court to order Nigerian government to drop the treason and terrorism charges instituted against him, and pay him compensation. 4 min read The ECOWAS Court of Justice has fixed June 29, 2021 for judgment in a suit challenging the “unlawful” arrest and prosecution of a Nigerian journalist and publisher,...

Also arrested were his wife and son while his two houses were demolished by the security operatives. The State Government Security outfit, “Operation Akpakwu” carried out the arrest and demolition in the early hours of Monday in Akpabuyo “His two houses were demolished by the security operatives, his shrine where kidnappers and militants were being fortified at Akpabuyo was also destroyed,” our source revealed. Operation Akpakwu, however, disclosed that the Chief confessed that his son ...

Daily Post Nigeria Published The Osun State Police Patrol has allegedly chased to death a middle-aged man, Taiwo Kajogbola along Kajola/Osunjela road. DAILY POST gathered that the deceased, who was riding a motorcycle at the time of the accident, was going to give his parents some food to break their fast on Sunday. A source said the deceased allegedly refused to stop at Kajola for a stop-and-search at the checkpoint when the police stopped him on his way back to Osogbo. His refusal to stop pro...

Family demands justice, compensation of N100m over alleged murder of 18-year-old son Published The Samuel family in Sardauna local government council of Taraba State on Tuesday approached the Justice Christopher Awubra panel to demand justice over the alleged killing of their 18 years old son, Meshack D. Samuel. Meshack, a final year student of the Government Science college Gembu, was said to have been hit by a stray bullet on his way to school. The incident which occurred in September 2010, a...

Daily Post Nigeria Published One person has been confirmed dead and vehicles destroyed as mob set a police station in Kware Local Government Area of Sokoto on fire. The Police Spokesman in the state, ASP Abubakar Sanusi, told newsmen on Tuesday that the unfortunate incident happened after a mob came to the station demanding the release of two suspected kidnappers. Sanusi said the suspects were earlier arrested and are being investigated for their alleged involvement in kidnapping in the area. H...

Punch Newspapers Sections Published 5:20 am Soldiers in Taraba State on April 2, 2021 allegedly gunned down five youths who were returning from a wedding. Mallam Bello Jen, whose two sons were among the slain youths, speaks to TYOPUUSU JUSTIN about his quest for justice Please introduce yourself. My name is Mallam Bello Aliyu Jen. I am a retired civil servant with the Taraba State Government and I hail from Ardo-Kola Local Government Area of the state. Currently, I am an ex-officio member of th...

Officials in Indonesia declared all 53 members on the crew of the KRI Nanggala-402 submarine dead after the wreckage of the vessel was found deep underwater Sunday.