The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it will not extend the deadline for submission of list of candidates’ names by political parties for the 2019 general elections. The Chief Press Secretary to INEC Chairman, Mr Rotimi Oyekanmi disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Abuja. Oyekanmi
The South Korean ministry of food and drug safety has cautioned Nigerians against the use of drugs imported from China, as they may contain human remains. The ministry issued this warning in a memo dated October 12 and directed to the Nigeria Intelligence Agency (NIA) and other agencies including the ministry of health, the National
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday met with the heads of Nigeria’s security agencies to review the country’s security situation ahead of the 2019 election. The meeting, which held under the auspices of National Security Council, held inside the president’s office at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. A statement made available by the spokesperson of the Minister
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) says 76 percent of Nigerians are between ages 0 to 24, as the country’s population hits 195.9 million. In its UNFPA state of world population report themed “The power of choice: Reproductive rights and the demographic,” the UN agency revealed that 148.8 million Nigerians are under the age of
THE National President a of Non-Governmental Organisation and democracy group, National Movement for Positive Change (NMPC), Barrister Niyi Aborisade, has heaped praises on the Nigerian Senate for its decision to suspend the fraudulent bank charges on maintenance of debit cards. Aborisade stated this in a statement issued on Wednesday after the Senate led by its
The Osun state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has protested the alleged disbandment of the governorship election petition tribunal in the state. The party members held the protest on Thursday at the premises of the election tribunal in Osogbo, the state capital. Niyi Owolade, a chieftain of the PDP, said that they were
Mary Uduk, acting director general of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), says the recent outflows experienced in the Nigerian capital market will be remedied when the 2019 general election is concluded. In a session with journalists at the just concluded 2018 annual meetings of the World Bank Group and International Monetary Fund, Uduk who
The University of Lagos is to screen its newly-admitted students for hard drugs, an official said on Wednesday in Lagos. The university’s Principal Assistant Registrar, Communication Unit, Mrs Taiwo Oloyede, warned that the university would not hesitate to withdraw admission of new students who would test positive to hard drugs. Oloyede spoke in an interview
Nearly a century of marijuana prohibition came to an end Wednesday as Canada became the first major Western nation to legalise and regulate its sale and recreational use. The change was praised by pot enthusiasts and investors in a budding industry that has seen pot stocks soar on the Toronto and New York stock exchanges,
Former women affairs minister Aisha Alhassan, who recently resigned her appointment and dumped the APC, has retrieved computers and furniture she donated to the party’s state secretariat in Jalingo. According to Mr Aaron Artimas, APC publicity secretary in the state, Alhassan also removed rugs, air-conditioning sets and tables she had bought for the political party