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The federal government has directed the full implementation of a new visa reciprocity policy for U.S. citizens with effect from March 1.This is contained in a statement by the Media Adviser to the Minister of Interior, Sola Fasure, in Abuja on Friday. According to Mr Fasure, the Minister of Interior, …

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has suspended the election in Enugu East Senatorial District following the assassination of Oyibo Chukwu, the Labour Party candidate, in the exercise that was previously scheduled to hold on February 25. Electoral chief Mahmood Yakubu said during a press briefing in Abuja on Friday afternoon that …

Amid his health challenge, a British Consul, Ms. Heather Wilkie met with Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, in the custody of the Department of State Services, DSS. Kanu’s Special Counsel, Aloy Ejimakor, said the IPOB leader discussed issues bothering on his health and extrajudicial detention with …

The Labour Party has called for the postponement of Saturday’s general elections in Ondo State over absence of its logo in the ballot papers. It said its logo was missing in the ballot papers to be used for elections into Ondo Central Senatorial District and five House of Representative seats. The House of …

A massive operation by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to deter vote trading and other financial malfeasance ahead of tomorrow’s presidential and national assembly elections may have begun paying dividends with the interception in Lagos of the sum of N32, 400,000 (Thirty-two Million, Four Hundred Thousand Naira) allegedly suspected …

An audio of Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), plotting to rig the general election that is hours away has gone viral. In the said recording, Ifeanyi Okowa, vice-presidential candidate of the PDP, and Aminu Tambuwal, governor of Sokoto and director-general of the party’s presidential campaign …

The logo of the Labour Party is missing on the ballot papers sent to Ondo State. This was noticed barely 24 hours to the presidential election scheduled to hold Saturday.Details later…

A few days after his Television and Radio Stations were allegedly bombed by gunmen, Dr Chinyere Igwe, a member of the House of Representatives has been arrested with a bundle of dollars along Ana Road, Port Harcourt very early on Friday morning. The police while confirming Igwe’ss arrest gave the …

The chairmen of the Labour Party in the 36 states of the federation have declared that the party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi cannot win the presidential election on Saturday. They accused Obi of neglecting them in the running of his campaign and mobilisation activities. Sani Abdulsalam, Gombe State LP chairman …

The Nigerian public, consumers of telecommunications services, and all bank customers have been advised by the Nigerian Communications Commission to ignore a misleading information circulating in some social media platforms, insinuating there is a planned shutdown of all telecom networks and relevant ICT Units, including online transfer facilities of the …