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Guber Polls: EFCC Arrests Over 65 Persons for Alleged Voter Inducement No fewer than 65 persons were arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on Saturday March 18, 2023 across the 28 states where Governorship and State Houses of Assembly elections were conducted, for alleged voter inducement. Twenty of the suspects were arrested by operatives from the Ilorin Zonal Command while 13 suspects were nabbed by operatives on election monitoring duty at the Kaduna Zonal Command. The teams monitoring the polls in the Port Harcourt Zone arrested a total of 12 people for various offences bordering on inducing voters with money to vote their preferred candidates, while the Uyo Zonal Command made 4 arrests in Calabar. The remaining suspects were arrested in Gombe, Sokoto , kebbi and Niger states. Those arrested in Kaduna consist of 10 males and 3 females. They were apprehended by operatives working on intelligence or chanced upon them during the monitoring exercise. A suspect ...

Today I went to my polling unit to perform my civic duty...APC thugs  followed me to my polling booth insisting I vote APC, of course I refused and voted my preferred candidate after much struggle to tear my ballot paper, Infront of the already bought over security men and INECstaffs. Afterwards my clothes were torn and I got beaten up, I'm alive and well, Thank God They threatened to kill me when they see me in town, well na God get all man life and we all die at some points, but while I live, nobody will bully me into supporting evil  I will fight with the last drop of my blood! Credit: Uzodinma Lucy. More photos below. 

INEC Postpones Gov, Assembly Elections In 10 Lagos Polling Units The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has postponed Saturday’s governorship and state assembly elections in 10 polling units in the Victoria Garden City (VGC) around the Lekki area of the state. INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner, Segun Agbaje made the announcement when he addressed reporters at the VGC. According to him, corps members deployed as ad hoc staff on Saturday were hesitant to enter the VGC estate as they alleged that they were held hostage in the February 25 Presidential and National Assembly elections. Agbaje said the commission’s ad hoc staff set up voting materials in front of the estate on Saturday but the estate residents claimed that hoodlums might disrupt the process, so they did not feel secure and could not cast their votes. He said the situation was difficult for security agents to contain hence he and his team had to come to the area.  

Why I will never return to Dubai — Nigerian caregiver 18 March 2023  A caregiver, native of Imo State and former employee of Al Ain Centre for Rehabilitation and Care, Abu Dhabi, Patience Davidson, speaks on why she was jailed in the United Arab Emirates and her prison experience Can you narrate what led to your imprisonment? I had four kids (four, 11, 12 and 19-year-old) from Saudi Arabia under my care at Al Ain. I was their caregiver; I was more or less a mother to them. It was the 11-year-old that got injured. This was not the first time he got injured; whenever he is hyper, he doesn’t talk or express himself. He will rather resort to crying. That particular day, after preparing the kids for our usual outing, I went to the restroom with one of them who was epileptic. I usually took him everywhere because he needs attention all the time, and I didn’t spend up to 30 minutes as they claimed. While I was in the restroom, my colleague who was with them started saying in Sudanese ‘Pat...

  Amotekun Arrests Hoodlum With Gun In Osun The operatives of Osun Amotekun Corps have arrested a 35 yr old man, Tunde Abidoye with a single barrel gun in Ile Ogbo, Ayedire Local Government of Osun State. He was arrested on Friday following a complaint lodged at Ayedire’s command on the activities of Abidoye unleashing terror attacks on residents of the town and destroying their properties. Operatives of Amotekun swung into action instantly and got him arrested. Confirming the arrest, the Osun Amotekun Corps Commander, Brig. Gen. Bashir Adewinmbi said the suspected hoodlum was arrested by the operatives for terrorizing the residents of Ileogbo and its environment. According to him “The suspected hoodlum was arrested on Friday after a complaint was lodged at Ayedire local government command that the suspect was unleashing terror assaults on the innocent people of ileogbo and also destroying their properties and our men swung into action shortly after the complaint was made and the c...

Lagos guber election: Rhodes-Vivour loses polling unit to Sanwo-Olu The Labour Party governorship candidate in Lagos state, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, has lost his polling unit to the incumbent governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu of the All Progressives Congress. Results collated by INEC staff, Rhodes-Vivour polled 18 votes while Sanwo-Olu won with 29 votes.PDP's Olajide Adeniran popularly known as Jandor, polled two votes. In the House of Assembly election at the polling unit, the APC polled 34, LP 15, while PDP polled one vote.  

SOLDIERS 'BEAT' SERVING LAWMAKER ON ELECTION EVE IN BENUE 18th March, 2023   A serving House of Representative member representing Buruku Federal Constituency, Kpam Sokpo, was Friday night alledgely beaten at Old Barn Resort, Gboko by soldiers suspected to be of 401 Special Forces, Makurdi. Though it is not yet clear why he may have been beaten, sources alleged there was rumour that he was accused of planning to rig election. However, Hon Sokpo, debunked the allegations and said the soldiers stormed the Hotel where he was lodging around 2AM and started beating him even after he identified himself as a serving lawmaker. He said one of the soldiers used his gun to hit him on the head. According to him, the soldiers descended mercilessly on him causing serious injuries. “The soldiers came to the Old Barn Resort Hotel where I was lodging around 2AM this morning with three trucks. “I explained to them that I am a House of Reps. members, but they rather descended heavily on me, with...