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  *Total of 23 officials to face the law over multiple registrations *Announces 93.5m voters for 2023 polls, says no going back on BVAS, IreV *Political parties pass confidence vote on Yakubul12.29 million new voters registered By Omeiza Ajayi, ABUJA For engaging in multiple registrations of voters during the last voters’ listing exercise, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has commenced the in-house sanctioning of 23 officials. The records of the commission showed that some of the 23 officials attempted to register some fake voters 40 times, INEC National Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, disclosed yesterday during the third quarterly meeting with political parties, in Abuja. Ahead of next year’s general election, the electoral umpire also declared that no fewer than 93.5 million Nigerians are eligible to participate in the exercise as voters, noting that 12.29 million Nigerians successfully completed their registrations as new voters in the just concluded Cont...

  The family of Mr. Promise John has petitioned the Police Command in Delta over the removal of their late child’s organs in a hospital in Asaba. The alleged act occurred on October 10 after a newborn male child admitted at the El-Comfort Hospital was confirmed dead. John told reporters that the baby was taken there on September 29 but died after 11 days in the intensive care unit, where he was placed on oxygen. He said when they got to the health centre to carry the corpse, the eyes, the ear and parts of the face had been removed. “We reported the matter to the police, but with the way the police was going about the case, it seemed they were trying to deny us justice.” The father said the matter was now in court, but the police only charged the nurses on duty without joining the hospital. John, who wants the management charged as well, added that the nurses had been released on bail. Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Bright Edafe, confirmed that the matter is ongoing in court. ...

With the presidential campaign kicked-off for the 2023 general election, the All Progressives Congress, APC, will no doubt miss the dexterity of former minister, Chibuike Amaechi. Things have not remained the same between the presidential candidate of the party, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and some top shots of the party since after the presidential primary election. Party leaders such as the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo and the former Governor of Rivers State, Amaechi have gone hibernating from party activities since the primary election. Amaechi was the Director-General of President Muhammadu Buhari’s Campaign organisation both in 2015 and 2019 elections. He delivered in the two successive elections. However, that is not the case as the party prepares for the 2023 polls. While Osinbajo was conspicuously missing from the Tinubu-Shettima Presidential Campaign Council, Amaechi has neither accepted nor rejected his appointment into the campaign movement. DAILY POST recalls that after week...

  Oyo State Police Command has arrested two teenagers for alleged sexual abuse of a 17-year-old girl and recording the act on their phones. The two friends, after raping the victim, were said to have sent the video of the sexual act to another friend, who demanded sex from the girl so as not to upload the film on social media. Spokesperson for the Command,  Adewale Osifeso , who confirmed the arrest in the statement, said: “ On October 24, 2022 at about 12:00p.m, the victim, (name withheld) ‘f’ 17, visited her friend Joshua Adegoke ‘m’ aged 18 years at his residence where she met one Peter Akintunde ‘m’, aged 18 years. “At Joshua’s place, she was given a bottle of soft drink, after which she was invited to his room for sex, an offer which she declined. “In a bid to salvage what she sensed was becoming a trouble, she innocently asked Peter, Joshua’s friend to prevail on his friend, but instead Peter advised her to offer Joshua what he demanded. “ At this point, both friends too...

  A former national publicity secretary of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Olisa Metuh, has resigned his membership of the party, noting that he would be involved henceforth in non-partisan politics. Metuh’s resignation was contained in a letter he wrote to the PDP national chairman, Dr Iyochia Ayu, dated October 25 and sighted by LEADERSHIP on Wednesday. He also said he has submitted his resignation letter to the ward chairman of the party in his home State of Anambra. The former PDP spokesman said he decided to resign from party politics because he believes he will contribute more to democracy and good governance in Nigeria by being non-partisan. Metuh was the longest-serving elected member of the National Working Committee (NWC) of the PDP, and won election to serve in several national positions at six consecutive national conventions of the Party. According to the letter, titled  “Resignation From The PDP”, Metuh said, “During my three weeks trip for medical and pers...

  Former Governor of Ondo State, Olusegun Mimiko, has stated that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, must allow its internal structure to reflect the diversity of Nigeria before embarking on its 2023 mantra of unifying the country. Mimiko, who disclosed that he has not backtracked from the position of Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, Governor of Oyo State, Seyi Makinde, and other aggrieved leaders of the party on the agitation for regional equity within the PDP, stressed his commitment that a member of the party of southern extraction must be the National Chairman before the 2023 polls. The ex-governor stated this on Wednesday while rejecting his nomination as ‘Leader of Campaign’ following his purported nomination on the Ondo State PDP Presidential Campaign Council list. Mimiko, alongside Wike and Makinde among others, has been having a running battle with PDP and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, over the alleged refusal of Iyorchia Ayu to honour the agreement that...

  Ahead of the 2023 general elections, a group under the aegis of Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG), has urged youths in the north to eschew religious, ethnic and regional sentiment, and vote for a competent presidential candidate who has the full knowledge of the economic and security challenges confronting the country. The group also said what Nigeria needs most is someone who has his tentacles across the nation and has the capacity and enablement to unify the country to become an indivisible entity. The National Coordinator of CNG, Jamilu Aliyu Charanchi gave the advice on Wednesday during the 2023 sensitization conference in Jos, the Plateau State Capital. He said the North voted blindly in 2015 and would not repeat that in 2023. “In the 2023 general election, I call on the youths, the women and all well-meaning Nigerians to avoid politics of bitterness, religious sentiments, sectionalism and nepotism. “We must ensure that the criteria for voting any person are based on charac...

  The Central Bank of Nigeria has announced it will launch new naira notes before the end of the year. The newly redesigned Naira notes are to come into use, December 15, 2022. The CBN Governor Godwin Emefiele disclosed this at a press conference on Wednesday. The Apex bank boss revealed that the new currencies will include the N200, N500 and N1000 notes. He advised Nigerians to take their old notes to banks in exchange for new ones.

  Rishi Sunak has emerged the new Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Recall that Liz Truss, former Prime minister, had resigned, saying she could no longer deliver the mandate on which she was elected by the conservative Party. According to an announcement made by Sir Graham Brady, only one nomination was received by the 1922 Committee for the new leader of the party, and backed by 100 MPs. Sir Brady, therefore, declared Sunak to be the next party leader, and consequently the new Prime Minister.

  Justice Mobolaji Olajuwon of the Federal High Court, Abuja on Monday ordered the final forfeiture of two Abuja properties and two luxury cars belonging to a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, to the Federal Government. The two properties are located at Plot 1854, Mohammed Mahashir Street, and No. 6, Aso Drive, in the highbrow Asokoro and Maitama Districts of Abuja and are valued at $2,674,418 and N380 million  respectively.    The luxury cars are a black BMW saloon and a black Jaguar saloon car both valued at N36 million.  Details later...

  A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Bode George, has backed the call for the resignation of the party’s National Chairman, Iyorchia Ayu. George faulted the resolution of the Acting PDP’s Board of Trustees, BoT, chairman, Adolphus Wabara-led reconciliation committee. The Wabara-led PDP BoT, in its report submitted to the party, recommended that the National Chairman, Iyorhcia Ayu, should resign after the 2023 general elections. The committee also urged Ayu to assure members that he would step down after the polls. Some PDP governors like Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State, Samuel Ortom of Benue State and Seyi Makinde of Oyo State have been calling for Ayu’s resignation. They argued that PDP’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar and the National Chairman can’t come from the same region. However, while appearing on Channels Television’s Programme, Sunday Politics, George wondered why the PDP chairman should be a judge in his own case. He said:...

  The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, appears to be in a quandary over whether or not to wield the big stick against Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike, his four other colleagues and other party leaders/members for alleged anti-party activities. Vanguard gathered in Abuja yesterday that opinion is divided among party leaders as to how best to deal with the issue because those involved include highly placed party leaders. While some argue that Wike and co should be ignored and treated as a distraction, others are of the opinion that it is hightime the party leadership wielded the big stick. “In the most brazen of acts after a barrage of verbal attacks on Ayu, whom he accused of corruption, Wike openly endorsed the second term bid of Lagos State governor, Babajide Sanwu-Olu, the 2023 candidate of the 2023 governorship elections. “This was at a time the PDP candidate for the same election, Dr. Abdul-Azeez Olajide Adediran (JANDOR), is seeking the mandate of the people of Lagos State. W...

  by Anayo Onukwugha The photograph of the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, is conspicuously missing on the party’s branded vehicles for campaigns for the 2023 general election in Rivers State. The branded vehicles, numbering about 25 are set to be unveiled on Monday, October 24, 2022, along with the party campaign council secretariat, located along Woji Road in GRA, Port Harcourt. The campaign council, christened “ New Rivers Vision Consolidation Project ”, has  former PDP chairman in the State, Chief Felix Obuah, as director-general while Governor Nyesom Ezenwo Wike is the chairman . Recall that Wike, along with other governors including Governors Okezie Ikpeazu (Abia), Samuel Ortom (Benue), Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi (Enugu) and Seyi Makinde (Oyo), have been having running battles with the national leadership of the PDP over the continued stay in office of Senator Iyorchia Ayu as the party’s national chairman. The G-5 PDP governors ...