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The Senate has amended the Electoral Act, to allow elected office holders participate and vote in the conventions, congresses, or meetings of political parties. The passage of the amendment was put forward by the Deputy President of the Senate OVIE OMO-AGEGE, who noted that the original Electoral Act had created a deficiency by banning elected officials from voting at party congresses. ...

Political parties in the country have asked the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to extend the timelines for the 2023 general elections by two months. Specifically, the parties want slight changes to the primaries’ timeline, as stipulated by the electoral umpire. Chairman of the Inter-Party Advisory Council (IPAC), YUSUF YABAGI, made the appeal on Tuesday at ...

Relatives and friends of 62 passengers abducted on the Abuja-Kaduna train have warned that the train service must not resume unless all abducted passengers are rescued. In a press conference in Kaduna, the spokesperson of the relatives of the abducted passengers, Dr. ABDULFATAI JIMOH, demanded the quick and safe rescue of their relatives being held, hostage. He decried the lassie-faire attitud...

The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has directed all its structures and organs to block all federal roads in protest against the continued shutdown of public universities in the country. Against the backdrop of the extension of the warning strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), NANS asked the students to ensure the roads are blocked daily for at least three hours until the Federal Government reso...

Former President GOODLUCK JONATHAN has rejected the presidential form of the All Progressives Congress purchased for him by a group of his supporters from the north. Dr JONATHAN’S Media Adviser, IKECHUKWU EZE, said in a statement hours after the news that the group had bought the form for him broke that the former did not authorize the purchase and consider the move by the group an insult. ...

A Federal High Court in Abuja has refused the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), GODWIN EMEFIELE’S request to restrain the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), and the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) ABUBAKAR MALAMI preventing him from his Presidential Ambition. The CBN Governor told the Court in Abuja that he can run for the post of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria without vac...

The president of the union, Prof EMMANUEL OSODEKE has said he Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has extended the ongoing strike by twelve weeks.  In a statement he issued after an emergency National Executive Committee meeting of the association at the University of Abuja, the ASUU president said the decision was to give the government enough time to resolve all outstanding issues with the lecturers....

The Airline Operators of Nigeria (AON) has suspended its decision to withdraw its services across all airports in the country. Barely a day before the association planned to effect the withdrawal, it explained that it was suspending the decision in the interest of the national economy and security considerations. AON President, ABDULMUNAF SARINA, announced the suspension on Sunday...

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has assured residents of Abuja against panic buying of fuel, assuring that the agency has adequate supply despite the resurgence of queues in the city.  It explained the appearance of fuel queues in parts of Abuja is very likely due to low load outs at depots which usually happen during long public holidays. The statement add...

Officers of the Nigeria Customs Service, Federal Operations Unit Zone A, have intercepted over 1000 bags of foreign parboiled rice smuggled into the country through the Benin Republic border. The Acting Comptroller of the Unit, HUSSEIN EJIBUNU, stated this during a briefing on Thursday. EJIBUNU said the rice with label production from India came in through the Benin land border....