A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adamu Garba, claimed there is no incidence of violence in the ongoing governorship and state House of Assembly elections in Lagos State. In a tweet on Saturday, Garba claimed he is currently in Lagos and can confirm that there is no violence in the South West state. Meanwhile, there are series of reports of widespread violence with social media users sharing video and picture evidence of voter intimidation and disruptive actions by political thugs across parts of the state.
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The Nigeria Police Force, have warned supporters of all political parties not to kill themselves because of any politician over the March 18 governorship and houses of assembly polls. The call was made by the Deputy Inspector General of Police North-West, Hafiz Inuwa. Inuwa made the warning while addressing party supporters at the signing of the peace accord, held at the command’s headquarters in Dutse, Jigawa State. He urged the gubernatorial candidates to honor the peace accord for the peaceful conduct of the election. The DIG, however, advised the candidates to advise their supporters not to take politics as do-or-die…
UEFA on Thursday included Napoli’s Victor Osimhen, Real Madrids’ Karim Benzema and others in the UEFA Champions League team of the week. UEFA released the Champions League team in a post via its website after this week’s round of 16 second-leg fixtures on Wednesday night. Osimhen scored a brace for Napoli against Eintracht Frankfurt, while Haaland scored five goals against RB Leipzig. Below is the UEFA Champions League team: Goalkeeper Diogo Costa (Porto) – 7 points Defenders Giovanni Di Lorenzo (Napoli) – 10 points Manuel Akanji (Man City) – 11 points Minjae Kim (Napoli) – 8 points Mário Rui (Napoli)…
Usman Baba, the Inspector-General of Police, has announced restriction of vehicular movements during this Saturday’s governorship and House of Assembly elections. The Force spokesperson, Muyiwa Adejobi, confirmed this in a statement on Thursday. According to Adejobi, the restriction would take effect from 12am to 6pm. The elections will take place in 28 states across Nigeria. Adejobi noted that the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), is excluded from this order, as no election will occur in the country’s capital. The Force spokesperson also said officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), observers, and other persons carrying out essential services are excluded…
Google says it has introduced generative Artificial Intelligence (AI), model that will help users with smart compose, replies and summaries in the workspace. Johanna Voolich Wright, Vice President, Product, Google Workspace, said in a statement on Wednesday that AI had been transformational in building products that had earned a valued place in people’s lives. This is has reported by NAN that, Generative AI is an artificial intelligence model that can generate text, images, audio and video by predicting the next word or pixel. Wright said that across Google’s productivity suite, advances in AI had already helped three billion users save more time…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has renewed calls on political parties to consider Saturday’s Governorship and States Houses of Assembly election as a contest and not a war. Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, the INEC Chairman said this at an Inter-Agency Consultative Committee on Election Security (ICCES), meeting on Tuesday in Abuja. Yakubu urged political leaders to refrain from acts that may mar the election or compromise the security of INEC personnel, observers and other stakeholders. He said the governorship election would hold in 28 states, with the exception of Anambra, Bayelsa, Edo, Ekiti, Imo, Kogi, Ondo and Osun where the…
Solomon Enilolobo, The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), candidate for House of Assembly, Abeokuta South Constituency 1 in Ogun State, has shelved his ambition and declared support for the second term bid of the state governor, Dapo Abiodun. Enilolobo, who announced his stepping down from the House of Assembly race scheduled for Saturday, when led his supporters to the Iperu-Remo residence of the governor, to decamp to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), said PDP in Ogun is not only lawless, but totally have disregard and disrespect for the Rule of Law. According to him, “PDP is a sinking ship, its…
The Social Democratic Party (SDP) governorship candidate in Ogun State, Mr. Tony Ojeshina, has stepped down to support the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Ladi Adebutu ahead of the March 18 election. Ojeshina said this at a news conference in Abeokuta on Thursday. According to him, the synergy between SDP and PDP will usher in a prosperous time for the people, anchored on the lofty vision of making Ogun a model state in Nigeria. He noted that all the SDP state House of Assembly candidates are still in the race for the March 18 election. “The political alignment…
Unfolding reports from across facilities hosting the victims of the Thursday morning accident in Lagos involving a train and a BRT bus shows that death record has risen to six. The bus conveying staff of the Lagos State Government collided with an oncoming train at the PWD rail crossing in the Shogunle area. While heading to Alausa from Isolo, the driver took a wrong turn at the PWD rail crossing in Shogunle and hit the train, eyewitnesses said. The vehicle had 85 passengers on board, mostly civil servants and some dependents. Two died on the spot, four died in the…
The Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA), is working with other stakeholders to mitigate the slight tightness being experienced in the distribution of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS). Mr. Farouk Ahmed, Authority Chief Executive, NMDPRA made this known in a statement on Sunday. He said that operations in loading depots have fully resumed, following the restriction of movements during the recently concluded Presidential and National Assembly elections, which necessitated truck drivers to travel to exercise their civic duty. The chief executive said the public should take note that the current stock sufficiency stood at 35.39 days for PMS, 34.86…
Afghan universities reopened on Monday after a winter break, but only men returned to class with a “heartbreaking” ban by the Taliban authorities on women in higher education still in force. The university ban is one of several restrictions imposed on women since the Taliban stormed back to power in August 2021, and has sparked global outrage even across the Muslim world. “It’s heartbreaking to see boys going to the university while we have to stay at home,” said Rahela, 22, from the central province of Ghor.“This is gender discrimination against girls because Islam allows us to pursue higher education.…
Unfolding events recommends that the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC, will approach the Court of Appeal seeking to set aside its earlier ruling concerning the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System, BVAS. A senior official of the commission, who did not want his name mentioned, informed Daily Trust about the development over the weekend in Abuja. Recall that the Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate, Peter Obi and his counterpart in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar, had sought and obtained an order from the Court of Appeal to inspect election materials used by the INEC. However, with the gubernatorial election slated…