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The house of representatives has asked the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to extend the deadline for continuous voter registration (CVR) by 60 days. The resolution was passed during the plenary session on Wednesday following the adoption of a motion passed by Benjamin Kalu, a lawmaker from Abia state. The electoral umpire […]

The Catholic church of Nigeria has kicked against having a Muslim-Muslim presidential ticket  — where the presidential candidate and his running mate are both of the same religion.  The church made its aversion known on Tuesday in a press statement jointly signed by Zacharia Nyantiso Samjumi, secretary-general of the Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria, […]

Orji Uzor Kalu, chief whip of the senate, says the All Progressives Congress (APC) needs a Muslim-Muslim ticket to win the presidential election in 2023. Speaking with journalists in Abuja on Wednesday, Kalu said if he were in the shoes of Bola Tinubu, APC presidential candidate, he would go with a Muslim-Muslim ticket. […]

Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, spokesperson of the Northern Elders Forum (NEF), says “ordinary” Nigerians no longer care about the religious background of their political leaders. Baba-Ahmed spoke on Tuesday during an interview on Channels Television. Over the past few days, there have been concerns and arguments over the religious background of the presidential candidates […]

The consumer price index (CPI), which measures the rate of change in prices of goods and services, surged to 17.71 percent in May 2022, up from 16.82 percent in the previous month. The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said this in its Consumer Price Index (CPI) report for 2022 released on Wednesday. […]

Reactions have trailed Peter Obi’s visit to Egypt to “understudy the country’s power, education, planning and finance sectors”. The former governor of Anambra and presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) had tweeted on Tuesday that he will be in Egypt for three days. “I just departed for Egypt on a […]

Mohammed Bello Adoke, former attorney-general of the federation and minister of justice, has welcomed the judgment of the Commercial Court of England and Wales which ruled that there was no evidence of fraud in the OPL 245 transaction. The federal government had sued JP Morgan on the ground of “Quincecare duty”, alleging that […]

A Twitter user, @Ameerah_sufyan, says she and 16 other residents of the federal capital territory (FCT) have been kidnapped by gunmen. In a post on her Twitter handle on Tuesday, the Abuja resident said the victims included pregnant women and children. “Please whoever has my WhatsApp number, I sent a broadcast message […]

A high court in Borno state has sentenced Aisha Wakil, better known as ‘Mama Boko Haram’, to five years imprisonment over fraud. The Maiduguri zonal command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had re-arraigned Wakil, alongside Tahiru Daura and Prince Shoyode, in September 2020, on a two-count charge of conspiracy and […]