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• State Assembly declares two seats vacant THE crisis between Niger State Governor, Dr. Muazu Babangida Aliyu and his Deputy, Ahmed Musa Ibeto, took a dramatic dimension on Wednesday when the governor

CYNTHIA Osokogwu murder trial suffered another adjournment on Wednesday an Igbosere High Court, Lagos, due to the alleged illness of Ezike Olisa-Chidera, one of the defendants. Olisa-Chidera, 25, who walked with a

NIGERIA is expanding local capacity to train technical workforce for the sector sector in its bid to becoming a regional training hub and supplier of requisite manpower and expertise. To make good

THE Defence Headquarters on Wednesday said the Boko Haram insurgents had suffered heavy casualties in two-day military operations to clear them from 11 communities in the North-East. This is contained in a

A FURTHER postponement of Nigeria’s general elections beyond the rescheduled polling day of March 28 would be “unconstitutional”, the country’s election chief, Attahiru Jega, said on Wednesday. “I don’t see how anybody

ISLAMIST group Boko Haram has vowed to make voting impossible in the upcoming election after a spate of deadly attacks in the country’s violence-wracked northeast. The group’s leader Abubakar Shekau said in

AS of last Saturday when the presidential and national assembly elections were earlier scheduled to hold, 70.7 percent of the about 1.6 million registered voters in Ondo State have collected their Permanent

THE new Commissioner of Police in Oyo State, Muhammed Musa Katsina, has warned candidates in the forthcoming election and their supporters against acts and statements capable of inciting violence. The

THE governor of Ondo State and coordinator of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential campaign in the South West geo-political zone, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko has expressed optimism that the party’s candidate, Dr.

Spokesman petitions police over alleged threat to his life THE All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti State has reacted to the Court of Appeal judgment in the governorship petition filed by APC