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Allow 7m Nigerians to complete voter registration or face legal action, SERAP tells INEC

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged Professor Mahmood Yakubu, the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to “immediately give seven million Nigerians who have carried out their voter registration online the time and opportunity to complete the process, so that they can obtain their permanent voter cards (PVCs), and exercise their…
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Lagosians excited as court sanctions Shola Olowolafe, Bolaji Jubril, Hakeem Tokosi, others

Lagos Community officials, Resident fight over event centre Kayode Odu wins round one Magistrate court issues restraining order against Urges customers to use Alaka event centre Some LSDPC Community officials in the Surulere Local Government Area of Lagos State and a resident are currently at daggers drawn over plans by the community officials to terminate…
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KEYNOTE ADDRESS AT THE 2022 INAUGURAL RETREAT OF THE FEDERAL MORTGAGE BANK OF NIGERIA HELD AT TRANSCORP HILTON HOTEL ON MONDAY 1ST AUGUST 2022

If there are any words which capture the necessity and the reality that beckons for the Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria, those words are best represented by Repositioning and Performance. They underly the rationale for setting up the bank many years ago, which is to provide service to Nigerians. Undeniably, the quantity and the…
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PDP BEHIND C.A.N STANDOFF AGAINST APC.

PRESS RELEASE. For the past few days, the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, has been upbeat over the choice of Senator Kashim Shettima as the Vice Presidential candidate of the All Progressives’ Congress- APC-. Taking an interrogative assessment of their activities, one would think they are altruistic in…
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Terrorism reporting: SERAP gives Buhari 48 hours to withdraw threat to sanction BBC, Daily Trust

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to “urgently instruct Mr Lai Mohammed, Minister of Information and Culture to withdraw the threat to sanction the BBC and Daily Trust over their documentaries on terrorism in the country, whether through the Nigeria Broadcasting Commission (NBC) or any other agency of government.” According to…
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FREE, TRANSPARENT AND CREDIBLE ELECTIONS INDISPENSABLE TO PEACE AND STABILITY IN WEST AFRICA, PRESIDENT BUHARI DECLARES

President Muhammadu Buhari Tuesday in Monrovia, Liberia called on leaders in West Africa to do all within their powers to ensure that elections are conducted in their countries in an atmosphere of trust, freedom and transparency as this is the only way the sub-region can be insulated from the scourge of unconstitutional take overs…
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STRIKING LECTURERS: WORKERS PROTEST IN NIGERIA

NLC EMBARKS ON A THREE-DAY NATIONAL WARNING STRIKE CONSIDERS INDEFINITE STRIKE The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has said that it will embark on a three-day warning strike immediately after the Tuesday and Wednesday nationwide protest in solidarity with the striking lecturers. Also the National Union of Electricity Employees is expected to join Nigeria Labour…

