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The Nasarawa State Police Command has issued a ban on all forms of protests across the 13 Local Government Areas of the state.
This was contained in a statement made available to newsmen by the command’s Public Relations Officer, DSP Ramhan Nansel, in Lafia on Sunday.
According to him, the move by the command was to forestall the breakdown of law and order in the state.
The official statement reads “The Nasarawa State Police Command wishes to inform the general public that all forms of protest have been banned throughout the state”.
Therefore, all proposed protests under any guise are hereby prohibited....

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Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged Professor Mahmood Yakubu, Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to “urgently seek the appointment of an independent counsel to investigate allegations of electoral violence and other electoral offences including bribery against any state governors and their deputies during the just concluded general elections.”

SERAP also urged him to “promptly and effectively investigate reports of electoral violence and other electoral offences committed during the general elections, and to identify suspected perpetrators and their sponsors, and ensure their effective prosecution, regardless of their political status or affiliations.”...

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Barely twenty-four hours after Governor Chukwuma Soludo, launched the state Solution Innovation District, SID, over five thousand Anambra young people have applied to participate in the training.

Ms Chinwe Okoli, Special Adviser to Governor Soludo on Innovation and Business Incubation, gave the figures on Wednesday in a reaction to appreciate participants on the successful launch of the SID project. The SID initiative is the outcome of a collaborative effort between the state government on one part and Microsoft and Wootlab Foundation on the other hand, to train 20,000 youths on Digital Skills....

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The Federal Government has announced the removal of excise duty for telecom sub-sector of the Nigeria’s Digital Economy Industry in line with the recommendations of the Committee it constituted to review the applicability of the Duty to the telecom sector which is considered already overburdened with taxation and sundry levies.

In a statement yesterday by Director, Public Affairs of the Nigerian Communication Commission, the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Prof. Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami disclosed thisat a press briefing organised to provide updates on the status of the 5 per cent excise duty, which applicability to the telecom sector was objected by the Minister in August 2022, following which President Muhammadu Buhari suspended its application to the telecom sector and set up a Presidential Review Committee on Excise Duty in the Digital Economy Sector....

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Governor of Anambra State, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, on Tuesday, launched Solution Innovation District, (SID)

The function which was held at Professor Dora Akunyili Women’s Development Center, Awka, featured the signing of a memorandum understanding with Anambra State Government, Microsoft and Wootlab Foundation to train 20,000 youths on Digital Skills. The SID components include business innovation, digital skills, and the desire to revive businesses on Facebook, Twitter, and WhatsApp while producing thousands of millionaires each year...

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The presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the last Presidential Election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has joined Peter Obi to overturn the decision of the electoral commission. The former Vice President approached the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal in a separate petition.

The cover page of the petition which was sighted by the News Chronicle shows that while both Atiku Abubakar and his party, PDP are the petitioners, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), All Progressive Congress (APC) and the president-elect, Bola Tinubu are all the respondents...

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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Abuja Zonal Command, has arraigned one Aiosa Kelvin Orhue before Justice C.E. Nwecheonwu of the FCT High Court, Kuje, Abuja on a three count charge bordering on love scam.

He pleaded guilty to the charge. Justice Nwechonwu consequently convicted and sentenced the defendant to one year imprisonment with an option of fine of N1, 000,000 (One Million Naira) only.

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The Labour Party Presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has filed his petition at the presidential elections tribunal in Abuja ahead of the deadline. This was made known in a series of tweets in the early hours of Tuesday.

According to the Chief spokesman of the LP Presidential Campaign Council, Yunusa Tanko, the process of reclaiming the people’s mandate has started. “It is official that the Labour Party Presidential candidate Peter OBI has filed his petition to the presidential elections tribunal in Abuja. The process of reclaiming the people’s mandate has started”, the LP Spokesperson wrote...

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The Federal High Court, presided over by the Chief Judge of the court has dismissed the Suit filed by Hon. Emmanuel Agonsi in Suit No. FHC/ABJ/CS/33/2021.
The Applicant had approached the Federal High court seeking reliefs against the Code of Conduct Bureau sued as 1st Respondent and Prof. Mahmood Yakubu sued as 2nd Respondent, pursuant to the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act, 2011...

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Looking at the trend, the headline inflation rate for February 2023 increased by 0.09 percentage points from January 2023.

The headline inflation rate was also 6.21 percent higher on an annual basis than the 15.70 percent reached in February 2022. This demonstrates that, when compared to February of the previous year, the headline inflation rate rose in 2023 on an annual basis (February 2022)....

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PDP has come out to shed light on why it withdrew it’s court motion as part of the process of challenging the results of the concluded 2023 presidential election.

It said it had become pertinent to make some clarifications following insinuations and mischievous reporting of the withdrawal of the application for the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to grant access to the legal team of the Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar and the PDP on the inspection of the documents related to the February 25 presidential election...

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The next time Governor Charles Chukwuma Soludo is involved in governorship elections in Anambra State, there would be outraged voters, some of them former residents of Okpoko slum in Onitsha, who would have waited for years, knives between their teeth, to ensure that by thumbprinting anywhere else but adjacent the chicken symbol of the All Progressives Congress (APGA), they incinerate the electoral chances of the one the chicken represents, and finally bring the chickens home roost.

It would be such a fitting sendforth for Charles Chukwuma Soludo whose loose lips would have sunk his ship. The handwriting appeared on the wall a long time ago....

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I have not been privileged to speak or meet with any of the three major candidates challenging for the governorship seat of Lagos state next Saturday but I have read and heard a lot about each and every one of them, the incumbent and the man to beat, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, especially. Apart from being the erstwhile federal capital, Lagos is the country’s commercial nerve-centre and, therefore, the primus inter pares among the country’s 36 states, including the new federal capital, Abuja. Therefore, the competition for it has always been keen but the one this time around promises to be an helluva of a battle because it promises to be a three-way battle between the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and its two foremost challengers: From the perennial opposition in the state, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and the new revelation of the 2023 presidential election, the Labour Party (LP). Unfortunately for PDP, the meteoric rise of LP has weakened the once vibrant opposition party and things are not likely to be the way they used to be for it....

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Professor Arthur Chukwu of the Nigerian Law School has appealed to voters in Enugu State to continue to vote overwhelmingly for the Labour Party (LP) in memory of his elder brother, Chief Oyibo Chukwu, who was assassinated in Amechi, Enugu South Local Government Area of state, three days to the February 25 National Assembly election while returning from a family meeting in his hometown of Amurri in Nkanu West Local Government Area.

The older Chukwu, a former Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) chairman in Enugu State, was the LP candidate in the Enugu East senatorial election and was killed alongside his personal assistant, Sunday Igwesi...

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CLAIM: While featuring in an interview on Arise TV, the Labour Party Presidential Candidate, Peter Obi stated that in June 12, 1993, Presidential election, MKO Abiola, a Muslim who also had a Muslim running mate, Babangana Kingibe had more votes in the East ahead of Bashir Tofa who had a Christian and Eastern, Sylvester Ugoh as his running mate.

VERDICT: FALSE

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The re-election of governor Inuwa of Gombe State has received a major boost with the endorsement of no less than the eighth governorship candidates. The candidates had earlier stated that they will forgo their ambition.

Speaking on behalf of others, the gubernatorial candidate of Zenith Labour Party, Muhammad Gana Aliyu disclosed that the endorsement was made after a long and careful deliberation on the achievements of the present government under the leadership of Governor Inuwa....

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A Nigerian woman has asked God to make her husband impotent, paralyzed and financially crippled if he ever cheats on her.

This development was contained in a post on Facebook by social influencer Fegor Chime. According to the post, the woman who preferred anonymity, said she found some sexual chats on her husband’s phone that suggest he might be oiling other women.

In view of the discovery, she prayed God to deal with her husband if he gets intimate with other women.

She, however, noted that her husband who heard her make the prayers has started questioning her...

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The Obidient Movement which powered the Labour Party (LP) to a stunning performamce in the February 25 presidential and national legislative elections is a golden event in Nigeria’s political history, according to Chijioke Edoga, the party’s gubernatorial candidate in Enugu State in the election this weekend.

“The country has not seen anything near the Obidient Movement since 1999 when democratic rule was restored”, Edoga, a lawyer and journalist, told journalists in Enugu today....

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The Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi has stated that he has no issue with Bola Ahmed Tinubu but only challenging the process that produced him as president-elect.

Speaking during an interview on Arise TV which was monitored by the News Chronicle, Peter Obi said “I have no issues with Tinubu, he is somebody I have so much respect for as a brother and regard as a father. I am only challenging the process in which INEC declared him as the President-elect...

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The Inter Party Advisory council (IPAC) Anambra state chapter has passed a vote of confidence of Gov. Chukwuma Soludo and called on the people of Anambra to support his government.

IPAC made the call in a communique raised after its meeting in Awka on Wednesday. The communique which was signed by Chief Uche Ugwoji chairman of IPAC in the state, said it had x-rayed the political situation and come to the conclusion that Soludo had managed Anambra affairs satisfactorily...

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President Muhammadu Buhari and the Central Bank governor, Dr. Godwin Emefiele, have been called upon to obey the Supreme Court ruling on the use of the new and old naira notes.

The call was made by a professor of political science at Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University, Professor Obiekwe Nwanolue, while exchanging views with news men in Onitsha, on Thursday.

Last week, the Supreme Court gave a judgement where it ruled that old banknotes remain legal tender until the end of the year, bringing relief to millions affected by the policy on redesign of the naira notes...

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Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu has, since the launch of the Mother Infant Child Health Development (MICHD) Programme, fed about 5,000 indigent pregnant women registered in Public Healthcare Centres (PHC) across the 20 LGAs and 57 LCDAs of the State.

The Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi disclosed this in his address during Phase IV of the Mother Infant and Child Development programme organised by the Office of Civic Engagement for another set of 570 indigent pregnant women in the State, held at the Adeyemi-Bero Auditorium, Alausa, Ikeja...

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CLAIM: A post on Twitter and Facebook went viral, claiming that results on the INEC Election Viewing Portal (IREV) shows that Labour Party Presidential Candidate, Peter Obi won 19 states plus FCT.

VERDICT: FALSE

A check by the News Chronicle shows that the post is misleading as there are still some results which have not been uploaded on the INEC Election Viewing Portal (IREV)...

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Governor Chukwuma Soludo of Anambra says the efforts of his administration in fighting insecurity have yielded positive results.

Soludo told journalists in Awka on Wednesday that eight Local Government Areas were under the control of some criminal gangs at the time he assumed office about a year ago but had all been liberated. The governor, who spoke through Mr Christian Aburime, his Press Secretary, on Wednesday said the security environment was responsible for the safe environment that prevailed during and after the Feb. 25 presidential and national assembly in Anambra....

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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on Tuesday, secured the conviction of fourteen internet fraudsters before Justice Efe Ikponmwonba of Edo State High Court Benin City.

They were arraigned by the Benin Zonal Command of the EFCC on a separate one count charge of fraudulent personation. The convicts are Gift Patrick, Lucky Paul Omofureta, Elvis John Mathew, Jeremiah Rebirth Umoru, Alex Aimuawosa Yuodegha and Daniel Mathew.

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The world over, politicians try to win elections by fair and foul means. That tendency is the reason institutions and laws exist and are operated by men of honour and integrity, who are sticklers to rules and unyielding to pressures from partisan interests.

The February 2023 Presidential election in Nigeria is a watershed and a new low in the kind of life Nigerians live as human beings who deliberately refuse to grow up and join civilized societies. Our leaders lack honour and integrity, and have now added impunity by refusing to obey the laws of the land...

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Penultimate weekend millions of Nigerians frustratingly went to the polls to elect a new President and National Assembly members. Prior to the polls there was this artificial scarcity of fuel that caused commotion in many cities and towns. And above all, the Naira redesign policy that caused a serious crisis across the federation. Violent demonstrations followed the currency crunch in many cities forcing the Buhari regime to extend the deadline for the swapping of the old and the new notes.

Now, critics and analysts who should know better had argued strongly that the two crises were tailored to scuttle a presidential aspiration of a particular candidate. But now that that candidate had ‘won’ a fundamentally flawed presidential election it is either that he outsmarted the cabal hell-bent on frustrating his ambition or that they underestimated his resolve to claim the big prize....

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The Borno South Senatorial District senator, Mohammed Ali Ndume, has donated N10 million to help the victims of the Maiduguri Monday Market (MMM) fire.

The All Progressives Congress (APC) Chairman, Sen. Abdullahi Adamu, the Vice-President-elect, Kashim Shettima, the Chairman of the Tertiary Institutions Trust Fund (TETfund), Kashim Imam, Governor Mai Mala Buni of Yobe state, and Ndume’s donation of N100 million bring the total amount donated to victims to N2.41 billion....

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The All Progressives Congress (APC) has appointed 12 Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SANs) to defend the mandate of its presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu who was declared winner of the presidential election by INEC in the just concluded Presidential Election.

Ahead of the legal firework which is expected to follow the election, the ruling party released a list of legal luminaries which include Chief Wole Olanipekun SAN. Olanipekun is expected to lead the legal team...

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What is clear in this Election is the utmost impunity of the selfish interest groups claiming to be acting as the representatives or leader of the people they have failed woefully! Presidency is back to the South. This writer predicted that by hook or crook, Atiku would be installed as President by the Oligarchy that had always chosen the leaders. If Atiku had won, hell would then break out making it easier to split the country into Regions.

Even the few members of the Northern Oligarchy that were using Fulani grassroots to buttress their bases have been rejected. They intentionally created unrest, chaos, terrors and religious intolerance to advance their greedy, voracious and selfish interests. But for Kwankwaso mobilization of the Talakawa in the North to reject the impunity of the Oligarchy whose nod is enough to dictate who leads Nigeria, Atiku could have cruised to victory....

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As electorates in Lagos State prepare to go to the polls on Saturday, 11th March, 2023, a faith-based human rights advocacy group, the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC), has drummed support for the second term of the incumbent governor of the state, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu. According to the group, Sanwo-Olu deserves another term in view of his sterling performance in office.

MURIC gave the appeal on Monday, 6th March, 2023 via a press statement issued by its Executive Director, Professor Ishaq Akintola....

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The Senator of the People’s Democratic Party representing Delta South Senatorial District of Delta State in the Nigerian Senate, James Manager has denied the report circulating in the media that he has left the party.

In a statement by his special assistant, Elliot Otobo Ugbome, the senator said there is no iota of truth in the report that he has joined the All Progressives Congress...

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