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Presidential aspirants on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party were on Friday night handed over the list of delegates that would take part in the presidential primary scheduled for Port Harcourt, Rivers State on Saturday (today). However, one of our correspondents gathered that some of the aspirants were apprehensive that the list could be altered at the last minute. The aspirants who are taking part in the primary are a former Vice-President, Atiku Abubakar; Governor of Sokoto State, Aminu Tambuwal; Governor of Gombe State, Ibrahim Dankwambo; a former governor of Kano State, Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso; a former governor of…

The Kwara State Police has arrested five suspected ritual killers in Ilorin, the state capital, for allegedly being in possession of 11 human skulls and other parts of the body. The state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Bolaji Fafowora, who paraded the suspects on Friday in Ilorin, identified them as Azeez Yakub, Salima Azeez, Isah Wasiu, Abubakar Isiaka and Soliu Yakub. He said exhibits recovered from the suspects included various suspected human bones and hair. The CP, while confirming the arrest said, “Acting on intelligence available to the command about suspected ritual killings around Adewole area of Ilorin by some ritualists,…

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Akwa Ibom State has released names of candidates that will vie for positions in the House of Representatives and state house of assembly in the 2019 general elections. The candidates emerged after the party’s House of Representatives and state House of Assembly primaries on Wednesday, October 4, 2018. See list below. 1. Hon. Pat Ifon – Eket Federal Constituency 2. Hon. Nse Ekpenyong – Oron Federal Constituency 3. Rt. Hon Nsikak Ekong – Ikot Ekpene Federal Constituency 4. Chief Emmanuel Ukpong-Udo – Ikono Federal Constituency 5. Mr. Unyime Idem – Ukanafun Federal Constituency 6.…

A new president for  the 62-year-old Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ) was elected on Friday to pilot the affairs of the body for the next three years. He is Chris Isiguzo, the South-East Bureau Chief of ThisDay newspapers, the immediate past Vice president of Zone C of the union. Isiguzo who won the election at the just-concluded sixth Delegates Conference of the union held in Abeokuta, Ogun State capital got 346 votes to defeat Waheed Odusile, the immediate past president of the union who garnered 329 votes. Other contestants were Bamidele Atunbi, 101 votes, Abiodun Olalere, 56, Uzaka Abraham, 30,…

The 202 cases of violence against persons recorded in Akwa Ibom State in six years drastically dropped in five years owing to hoarding of information by the victims, Straightnews has gathered. An investigation carried out by Straightnews shows that many victims of wife battery and widow disinheritance are afraid of reprisal attacks by the suspects while other persons particularly rape victims hoard information for fear of being stigmatised in the society. A breakdown shows that 106 cases were reported in 2013, 61 in 2014, 14 in 2015, 12 in 2016, 12 in 2017 and one as at January in 2018.…

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2018 to Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict. Both laureates have made a crucial contribution to focusing attention on, and combating, such war crimes. Denis Mukwege is the helper who has devoted his life to defending these victims. Nadia Murad is the witness who tells of the abuses perpetrated against herself and others. Each of them in their own way has helped to give greater visibility to war-time sexual violence,…

Parents and relations of rape victims from Akwa Ibom State who receive financial compensation from perpetrators to cover up suspects have been warned to desist from such action. This is as Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly had domesticated and passed Violence Against Persons Prohibition Law on July 17, 2017 that prescribes life imprisonment for rapists in the state. Akwa Ibom State commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Welfare, Mrs Glory Edet, gave the counsel Thursday in Uyo, the state capital during the official inauguration of Gender-based Violence Prevention and Response Centre sponsored by the ministry in collaboration with United…

Crude oil price in the international market dropped yesterday to $85.66 per barrel after hitting a four years high on Wednesday, as Russia and Saudi Arabia agree to raise oil output to ease rising prices Brent crude oil futures were down 63 cents at $85.66 a barrel, having risen to a November 2014 high of $86.74 the day before, while, U.S. crude futures were also down 80 cents, or 1.1 percent, at $75.61, after hitting a four-year high at $76.90 on Wednesday. According to the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC, Secretariat calculations, “The price of OPEC basket of fifteen…

With less than 24 hours to its national elective convention, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, said it has uncovered a plot by the federal government and ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, to disrupt the exercise. Spokesman of the party, Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan, who disclosed this at a press conference in Abuja Thursday, said: “There are plots by the ruling party to disrupt our national convention. ”We are aware of the machinations of the ruling party who are afraid of the election to halt the efforts of the opposition to elect a candidate to go into a contest with President Muhammadu…

Africa loses about $80 billion to illicit financial outflows annually, former South African President Thabo Mbeki, said. This is even as President Muhammadu Buhari said his administration was committed to fight corruption frontally since it was one of the cardinal points that made people vote for him. Mbeki, currently chairman of African Union High Level Panel on Illicit Flows from Africa, told Buhari on Thursday, said corruption was an African challenge that must be responded. Mbeki, who was at the State House, Presidential Villa, Abuja to brief President Buhari on critical updates on illicit flows on the continent, stated “Development…