The Presidency on Friday faulted last Monday’s report by the UK All-Party Parliamentary Group on International Religious Freedom or Belief which accused the federal government of allowing armed Islamist groups to kill, maim and displace Christians, through a systematic cleansing. Government said the APPG report was a misrepresentation of issues in Nigeria. In the […]

Leaders of the All Progressives Congress in Benue State led by Governor Samuel Ortom are in search of a new political platform ahead of the 2019 general election following threats from Abuja that Ortom could be denied the party’s ticket for hosting a mass burial for victims of herdsmen attack, THISDAY has learnt. A deadly […]

When I saw the video above I got very worried, not because this is the first time I have witnessed minors voting but because this practice has been allowed to fester to a point it’s now becoming a norm in some parts of Nigeria. My first encounter with underage voting was when as a supervisor […]

Palpable tension has been reported in parts of Kanam LGA over the rumoured cancellation of last Saturday’s APC councillor-ship primaries. It would be recalled that the party’s councillorship primaries, conducted to produce candidates for the February 2018 local government elections, had been marred by complaints and objections, with many claiming that several candidates were imposed […]