An office of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has been set ablaze in Imo State. The development comes days after an office of the commission was torched in Ebonyi State, with electoral materials, including ballot boxes, destroyed. Commenting on the Imo attack, National Commissioner and Chairman Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye, said the incident happened in Orlu Local Government Area of Imo. In a statement, he said the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) for Imo State, Sylvia Agu, reported the attack. “The building, which is undergoing extensive renovation following an earlier attack, was vandalised and partially set ablaze.…

A Minna, Niger State High Court has issued a warrant of arrest for Faruk Yahaya, Chief of Army Staff for contempt. Halima Abdulmalik, who presided over the case, said the order followed notice brought before the court in pursuant of order 42 rule 10 of the Niger State High Court Civil Procedure 2018. She also issued a warrant of arrest against Olugbenga Olabanji, Commandant of the Training and Doctrine Command, Minna, over the same offence. The presiding judge held, “An order is made committing the Nigerian army chief of staff general Farouk Yahaya and the commander training and doctrine command…

Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Thursday secured the conviction of a former Vice Chancellor of the Federal University, Gusau, Zamfara State, Magaji Garba. The anti-graft agency, in a statement, noted that Maryam Aliyu of the Federal Capital Territory High Court, Garki, Abuja, found him guilty of five counts bordering on obtaining money by false pretences and forgery, and sentenced him to 35 years in jail. Garba was arraigned by the EFCC on October 12, 2021, for allegedly extorting various sums from a contractor on the pretext of awarding him a contract of N3bn for the perimeter wall fencing of…

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday said weapons being used for the war in Ukraine and Russia were filtering into the Lake Chad and Sahel regions. He, therefore, called for increased collaborative actions by border control agencies and other security services to stop the circulation of illegal weapons in the region. “Weapons used in the war in Ukraine and Russia are also beginning to filter into the region,” Buhari told leaders at the Lake Chad Basin Commission’s 16th Summit of Heads of State and Government. This is according to a statement signed by the Special Adviser to the President on Media…