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The Independent National Electoral Commission INEC has arraigned Professor IGNATIUS UDUK of the University Of Uyo, Akwa-Ibom State on a three-count charge bordering on electoral fraud and perjury.Professor UDUK is accused of trying to rig the 2019 Akwa Ibom North-West Senatorial District election, with previous attempts by INEC to arraign him not successful as he went into hiding.UDUK is charged with three counts of abandoning his assigned duties as the col...

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has directed Mobile Network Operators to immediately suspend the sale and activation of new SIM cards to allow an audit of the Subscriber Registration Database.The Director of Public Affairs at NCC, IKECHUKWU ADINDE, in a statement, said it was absolutely necessary for operators to comply until the audit exercise had been concluded.According to him, Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, DR ISA PANTAMI, ...

FLOYD MAYWEATHER, the former five-weight boxing world champion, has announced he will take on Youtuber, LOGAN PAUL in a "special exhibition" fight in February 2021.There has been speculation the fight would be agreed for several months and PAUL, who has more than 22 million subscribers on Youtube, has taunted MAYWEATHER on several occasions, with both of them exchanging insults on social media.The fight, which will take place on February 20 next y...

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has advised Nigerians to moderate their taste for foreign goods with a view to stabilizing the nation’s economy.The Governor of the apex bank, GODWIN EMEFIELE, gave the advice during an interactive session with stakeholders on the five-year policy thrust of the apex bank in Kaduna State.Represented by the Assistant Director of Corporate Communications, SAM OKOGBUE, the CBN governor urged Nigerians to return to product...

The Academic Staff Union of Universities has said it would not end the strike it embarked on until government paid all the salaries of its members it withheld.The President of ASUU, Prof. BIODUN OGUNYEMI, in an interview with news men, said government should not expect the lecturers to resume without paying the withheld salaries.Prof. OGUNYEMI explained that the members of ASUU were still consulting and at the same time waiting for the government to fulfill...

Governor BABAJIDE SANWO-OLU of Lagos State has congratulated TOKUNBO ABIRU and OBAFEMI SAHEED on their victories in the just-concluded bye-elections. ABIRU and SAHEED were declared winners of the bye-elections in Lagos East Senatorial District and Kosofe State Constituency II respectively.According to a statement by the governor’s media aide, GBOYEGA AKOSILE, SANWO-OLU said the emergence of the lawmakers is a validation of peoples’ confiden...

The senator-elect for Lagos-East senatorial district and candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), TOKUNBO ABIRU, has promised to live up to the expectations of his constituents who gave him the mandate.In a series of Tweets on his official Twitter handle, he appreciated the electorates for voting for him and he promised fulfill the agenda of campaign.He listed the agenda to include people-focused quality representation; ensuring the welfare his con...

The first of 300 British troops have arrived in Mali to bolster the United Nations peacekeeping mission there, with the rest due to follow within a week.The United Kingdom's defence ministry says the force will join 14,000 peacekeepers from 50 nations to protect Mali’s population from growing Islamist violence.More than 5,000 French troops have underpinned the operation, but President EMMANUEL MACRON is under pressure to reduce his forces....

The Federal Government has inaugurated the re-constituted government team for the renegotiation of the 2009 agreements between the Federal Government of and Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), as well as other university-based unions, as approved by President MUHAMMADU BUHARI.The Federal Government team, which is categorized into substantive members, advisers and observers, is led by Professor MUNZALI JIBRIL.The Minister of Education, ADAMU ADAMU, ...

The former Chairman of the defunct Pension Reform Task Team, ABDULRASHEED MAINA has been extradited to Nigeria to face his ongoing 2 billion naira money laundering trial.MAINA was arrested in Niamey, the capital of Niger Republic after he jumped bail and was declared wanted by an Abuja High Court.He was received by men of the Nigeria Police Force at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport.Speaking with journalists at the airport, the Comm...