The Information, Culture and Tourism Minister, Lai Mohammed described as “absolute fake news” the report going around that the abducted Leah Sharibu is dead in the custody of Boko Haram. The Minister said “absolute fake news, and such thing is arrant nonsense” the Minister disclosed this to reporters at the news conference held in Ilorin, Kwara state.

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The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole has explained why the leadership of the party was yet to take disciplinary action against the Governors of Ogun and Imo states, Ibikunle Amosun and Rochas Okorocha respectively.

President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday raised alarm over threats to the conduct of the forthcoming general elections. In a statement personally signed and issued to newsmen in Abuja, the President lamented that corruption was threatening conduct of the exercise and that Nigerians must resist those working to scuttle the polls.

The National Judicial Council (NJC) says it has set up a preliminary committee to consider and review responses given to it by the embattled suspended CJN and the acting Justice Ibrahim Tanko. Mr, Onnoghen is being accused of failing to fully declare his asset being a public officer, while acting Justice Mohammed was accused of accepting to be sworn in instead of advising the federal government on what to do.

The European Union has dispelled media claims of perceived interference in the ongoing electoral process ahead of the February 16 presidential election. Head of the European Union Delegation to Nigeria and the Economic Community of West Africa States, Ambassador Ketil Karlsen, made the clarification on Saturday during a courtesy visit to Governor Henry Seriake Dickson, in Government House, Yenagoa.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has disclosed the possibility of extending the deadline for the collection of the Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs) especially in those states that has recorded low collection.
Prof. Mahmud Yakubu disclosed this during a stakeholders meeting held in Abuja yesterday.