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The Federal Government has taken a swipe at the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), following the release of the Dapchi schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram terrorists.

Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, faulted the party’s reaction to the girls’ release on Thursday in a statement by his media aide, Segun Adeyemi.

The abducted girls regained freedom on Wednesday, more than four weeks after the insurgents invaded the Government Girls Science and Technical College, Dapchi, in Yobe State.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Wednesday announced dates for the commencement of the recall process of the embattled Senator representing Kogi West, Dino Melaye. The Resident Electoral Commissioner in the state Professor James Apam said following the appeal court ruling that INEC can commence the recall process, the commission has fixed the last Saturday of April as the verification date.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has handed over one of its staff in Nasarawa, to the Department of State Security Services (DSS), for interrogation over alleged sales of Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) forms.

INEC’s administrative secretary in Nasarawa Mr Opaleke Otolorin, said in a statement on Wednesday in Lafia.

Multiple Vigil360 sources have confirmed the release of the abducted Dapchi school girls this morning. 

While it is not yet clear if all 110 girls were released, official confirmation from the Presidency indicates that the girls are now in the custody of the Department of State Services (DSS), in Dapchi.

The DSS will be briefing the President and the nation in the course of the day.



The Federal Government on Wednesday debunked media reports that five out of the 110 abducted schoolgirls from Dapchi, Yobe state died in the hands of their abductors. Khadijat Abba, a member of the Federal Government delegation to Yobe state and Minister of State for Foreign Affair who made the clarification while speaking to State House Correspondents

The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Odigie-Oyegun says despite the challenges experienced by President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration it has still been able to deliver on its election promises.

He said one of the major promises of the APC – the fight against corruption; is being won to the extent that it can no longer be a threat to the national economy, where it becomes an acceptable way of life, of doing business.

According to a statement signed by the APC’s Assistant Director of Publicity, Edegbe Odemwingie, Oyegun made this known on Tuesday when he received the Rector of the Federal Polytechnic, Bida, Niger, Dr. Abubakar Dzukogi and the management team of the polytechnic at the Party’s secretariat.

The Chief Justice of the Nigeria (CJN), Justice Walter Onnoghen has said a corrupt judge is not only a disgrace to the judicial system of the country but also a disaster to the course of justice as a whole. The CJN who stated this on Monday at the opening ceremony of the 2018 Refresher Course for Judges and Kadis, held at the National Judicial Institute, NJI, in Abuja

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