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Senator Ali Ndume has said that the issue of Electronic Voting is part of an idea hatched by the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP to rig the 2023 general elections. Ndume's comments are coming shortly after the national assembly voted against the adoption of electronic transmission of votes. Speaking to Roots TV, Ndume said; "This electronic voting they are talking about, i think its PDP's idea to rig the election because they are the ones that have the Yahoo-Yahoo boys, they are the ones that have 'puppy'. "These are the people otherwise i don't see any reason for the cry out on this matter". He continued further; "The truth of the matter is that we had 6 elections in this country and the one that was administered under the government of APC was adjudged to be very credible where you saw opposition winning elections under a sitting government. That was not the case during the PDP". "If you are thinking is that APC is doing this...

July 16, 2021 Controller General of the Nigerian Correctional Service NCoS, Haliru Nababa has initiated a high-level disciplinary procedure into the circumstances leading to an illicit marriage contract between the Officer in Charge of the Suleja Custodial Centre, AbdulRahman Musa, an Assistant Controller of Corrections and the wife of an inmate under his custody.. The inmate (names withheld) is currently awaiting trial at the facility on charges of armed robbery and possession of illegal firearms. While his wife had been visiting him regularly, she was said to have recently complained to relatives that she could no longer bear the agony of having her husband behind bars indefinitely and that she would be willing to file for a divorce. The troubled inmate had consequently approached the officer in charge, ACC Musa to help talk to the wife and make her see reason while she should keep faith with him, the husband. Vanguard gathered from top officials at the NCoS Headquarters that ACC Mus...

STATE HOUSE PRESS RELEASE **VP wants more States to follow, as Nasarawa, Enugu, Ekiti lead in turning in EndSARS panels’ reports  ** FG Budget Support Facility repayment begins      Ahead of next week's Sallah festivities, the National Economic Council is urging for strict adherence to the COVID-19 response guidelines across the country, after receiving a regular state performance report from the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC). According to the report, the Coronavirus positivity rate has gone up in the country just as 3 cases of the Delta variant have now been detected. This disclosure was made today at the Council’s 118th meeting, which held virtually and was presided over by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, with State governors, federal ministers, the Central Bank Governor, and other senior government officials in attendance. The Council received the state performance report on COVID-19 from the Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Contro...

President Muhammadu Buhari lauds Executive Director/Chef Executive Officer of Nigerian Export Promotion Council, Mr Olusegun Awolowo, on his election as President of National Trade Promotion Organizations (TPOs) from ECOWAS member States.  The President says Awolowo’s unanimous election is testament to the confidence reposed in him, and in Nigeria, by Chief Executive Officers of trade promotion organizations in West Africa, and urges him to serve to the best of his ability, and do the country proud.  President Buhari notes that an ECOWAS TPO Network holds great possibilities for Nigeria and the sub-region in the areas of exchange of commercial information and business opportunities, adding that the domiciling of the Secretariat in Abuja would open vistas of opportunities for Nigeria.  The President wishes Mr Awolowo well in his new assignment, expressing confidence that Nigeria and ECOWAS would benefit a lot from his expertise in trade promotions.   Femi Adesina Spec...

Justice Daniel O. Osiagor of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, on July 13, 2021, dismissed the application filed by a former Minister of Finance,  Nenadi Usman, and others seeking to strike out the charge preferred against them by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. Nenadi is standing trial alongside Femi Fani-Kayode, a former Minister of Aviation and Chairman of the 2015 Goodluck Jonathan Presidential Campaign Organisation over a N4.9bn fraud charge. Also charged with them are a former National Chairman of the Association of Local Government of Nigeria (ALGON), Yusuf Danjuma and a company, Joint-Trust Dimensions Nigeria Limited. At the resumed sitting on Tuesday, counsel to the first defendant, Usman, Chief Ferdinand Obu, SAN, moved an application praying the court to strike out the charges against his client on the grounds that the court lacks the jurisdiction to entertain the charge.  In the motion dated July 6, 2021 and filed same day, the def...

The Ilorin Zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has secured the conviction of three persons arrested by the anti-graft agency in Ado Ekiti for offences bordering on cybercrime and prosecuted before Justice Mohammed Sanni of the Federal High Court sitting in Ilorin, Kwara State. They are Ojo David Oluwatosin, Oreoluwa Ayub and Adetoyi Sodiq, all charged on one count each. The trio upon conviction were sentenced to six months imprisonment to serve as deterrent to others of like minds.  The three convicted persons were arraigned on separate counts on Thursday, July 16, 2021 and pleaded guilty to their charges. The charge against Ojo reads:  “That you, Ojo David Oluwatosin (alias Steve Puliam) sometime in in March, 2020 at Ado Ekiti,  within the judicial division of the Federal High Court, did fraudulently impersonate one Steve Puliam with the intent to obtain money from one Liza Weaver who chatted vide your email; puliamsteve@gmail.com after superimpo...

 Court Jails One For Forgery In Port Harcourt    Justice A .T. Mohammed of the Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State has convicted and sentenced Sokaribo Johnbull to seven months imprisonment for forgery. Johnbull was arraigned by the Port Harcourt Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on two-count charges bordering on forgery contrary to Section 1(2) (c) of the Miscellaneous offences Act, CAP M17, of the Revised Edition, (Laws of the Federation of Nigeria) 2007 and punishable under the same Act. One of the count charge read: "That you Sokaribo Johnbull on or about the 4th day of August, 2016, at Port Harcourt within the jurisdiction of this honourable court forged a document titled ‘Certificate of Occupancy’ with Certificate number RSG 016878, with intent that it may be acted upon as genuine by the Deputy Chief Registrar of the Federal High Court, Port Harcourt for the perfection of bail conditions of one Uche Samuel and ...