In efforts to clean up new voter registrations, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it has delisted 1,126,359 out of the 2,523,458 voter registrants from its register. This is contained in a statement by the National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye made available to newsmen on Monday. According to the commission, “several double, multiple and ineligible registrants have also been detected and invalidated.” Read the statement below: As Nigerians are aware, the cleaning up of the register of voters using the Automated Biometric Identification System (ABIS) is ongoing since the suspension of the Continuous…
Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe
By Stanley Ihedigbo The United Nations International Peace Advocate Ambassador, Professor Nwaocha Ogechukwu has been shortlisted for the 2022 Mahatma Gandhi Centre of Canada (MGCC) award. The award is for his unique contribution to the abolition of the caste system in Southeastern Nigeria. The don is an ambassador of Peace from Bureau for Peace and Conflict Resolution (Government of Imo State) and a nominee of 2022 Nobel peace prize, the first Nigerian to be nominated for such award. A statement by the President of Gandhi Centre, Dr. K. Dakshinamurti, who is an Emeritus Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba,…
The Computer Security Incident Response Team of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC-CSIRT) has identified five malicious Google Chrome Extensions that surreptitiously track online browser’s activities and steal their data. The Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT) is the telecom sector’s cyber security incidence centre set up by the NCC to focus on incidents in the telecom sector and as they may affect telecom consumers and citizens at large. According to the warning, the five malicious extensions discovered by the McAfee Mobile Research Team, have a total of 1,400,000 million downloads. They are Netflix Party with 800,000 downloads, Netflix Party 2…
Kechi Okwuchi, on 10 December 2005, she was involved in a horrific plane crash in Nigeria that took 107 of the 109 lives on board. She was 16 years old and sustained 3rd degree burns over 65% of her body and given a 30% chance of survival. She was air-lifted to Milpark Hospital in Johannesburg, South Africa for immediate medical attention and treatment. Kechi was later taken to Shriners Hospitals for Children in Galveston, Texas, United States, where she has undergone over 100 reconstructive surgeries. She resumed high school in 2009 and graduated from the University of Saint Thomas with…
Rivers state governor, Nyeson Wike on Friday, hosted the Sultan of Sokoto and President General, Nigeria Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar in Port Harcourt. Shortly after the governor received the Sultan in his Ada George residence, the duo held a closed-door meeting. ASHENEWS reports that Sultan Abubakar was in Rivers to declare open the 37th Annual National Conference of the Federation of Muslim Women’s Association in Nigeria (FOMWAN).
Nigeria’s largest airline, Air Peace Limited, is set to showcase its Embraer E192-E2 aircraft at the Aviation Africa Summit 2022, in Kigali, Rwanda, on September 12. The spokesperson of Air Peace, Mr Stanley Olisa, made this known in a statement issued in Lagos on Friday. Embraer E192-E2 is the largest commercial aircraft of Embraer, a Brazilian aircraft manufacturer. Olisa explained the aircraft would be displayed on the static apron at Kigali International Airport on September 12 for Very Important Persons and dignitaries attending the Aviation Africa Summit and Exhibition to tour the aircraft. The airline’s spokesperson said Air Peace was…
Following the death of Queen Elizabeth on Thursday, there are Caribbean calls to remove her successor, King Charles their head of state and for Britain to pay slavery reparations. Charles succeeds his mother, Queen Elizabeth, who ruled for 70 years and died on Thursday afternoon. The prime minister of Jamaica said his country would mourn Elizabeth, and his counterpart in Antigua and Barbuda ordered flags to half-staff until the day of her burial. But in some quarters there are doubts about the role a distant monarch should play in the 21st century. Earlier this year, some Commonwealth leaders expressed unease at a summit in Kigali,…
Britain’s new King has described the death of the Queen, who he called his “beloved Mother”, as the “greatest sadness” for his family. One of the first acts of the new monarch – whose title has been confirmed by the Prime Minister as King Charles III – was to speak of his grief and highlight the “respect and deep affection” in which the Queen was “so widely held”. His words came soon after Buckingham Palace confirmed Elizabeth II, 96, the nation’s longest-reigning monarch who served as head of state for more than 70 years, died “peacefully” on Thursday afternoon. Charles…
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) says Nigeria’s total merchandise trade stands at N12,841.54 billion, in the second quarter of 2022. This is according to the NBS Foreign Trade in Goods Statistics Report for Q2 2022 released in Abuja on Thursday. The report said the figure was lower than the value recorded in the first quarter of 2022 which stood at N13,001.28 billion indicating a marginal decrease of 1.23 per cent. ”However, it was higher than the value recorded in the corresponding period of 2021 which stood at N9,712.02 billion.” The report said Nigeria’s merchandise trade slightly fell in Q2…
The Police Command in Jigawa has confirmed the death of three children in a building collapse that occurred in Dutse local government area of the state. The command’s spokesperson, DSP Lawan Shiisu, confirmed this in a statement in Dutse on Thursday. Shiisu said the incident occurred on Wednesday morning in Yakasai area of Jigawa Tsada village due to heavy rain recorded in the area. “Today, at about 9.50am, information was received from Jigawar Tsada village of Dutse LGA, that on the same date, one building has collapsed in the area due to the heavy rain which lasted for an hour…