Obong of Calabar, His Eminence Edidem Ekpo Okon Abasi Otu the V, has admonished the people of Efik kingdom and Igbo residents in Calabar and other parts of the state to live peacefully.He made the appeal when Igbo leaders visited his palace yesterday in Calabar, the Cross River State capital. The
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Afrobeat singer, Seun Kuti, has said that Lagos is neither for Yorubas nor a no man’s land, but a European satellite slave port.Ahead of the governorship poll on Saturday, there is an ongoing debate on who the true owners of Lagos are.The youngest son of iconic Afrobeat pioneer, late Fela
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.A Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt has ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, and the Rivers State government to appear before it to explain why Saturday’s governorship and state assembly elections should not be suspended.This followed a suit by Chief Tonte Ibraye, the governorship candidate of the
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The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, has led a protest to the headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission in Abuja.PDP leaders as well as supporters have stormed the INEC headquarters wearing black clothes in protest against the just concluded presidential election that saw the All
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The Lagos State chapter of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has denied claims by the Labour Party candidate, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour that the main opposition party is having talking with him about stepping down.According to the PDP, the statement credited to the Labour Party candidate came as a disrespect to PDP,
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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has approached the Appeal Court for an order to allow it reconfigure its Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) for the March 11 state elections.A credible source in the commission hinted the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday that the order was significant following
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KELVIN Chukwu, the younger brother of the murdered Oyibo Chukwu, a lawyer, has been elected as the Labour Party (LP) candidate for the Enugu East Senatorial Zone.Oyibo, the candidate of the LP for Enugu East Senatorial Zone of Enugu State, was murdered two days to the February 25 National Assembly
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A federal high court in Lagos has granted leave to Labour Party (LP) to apply for a mandamus order mandating the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to electronically transmit results during the March 11 governorship and house of assembly elections in the state.The order was issued on Friday by Peter
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Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), have arrested a businessman, Kingsley Celestino, at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Ikeja, Lagos, over 9.40 kilogrammes of heroin concealed in false bottoms of his two travelling bags.Kingsley, a business class passenger on Qatar Airline flight was arrested at Terminal
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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it will commence the presentation of Certificates of Return to elected members of the National Assembly on Tuesday.Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, the INEC Chairman, disclosed this at a meeting of the commission with Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs) in Abuja on Saturday.Yakubu said that the
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