Rwandan president, Paul Kagame has refused to answer when asked if his troops are currently operating in neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo.\ UN experts believe that an estimated 3,000 – 4,000 Rwandan soldiers are supervising and supporting M23 fighters in the east of the DRC, outnumbering the rebel group’s forces, who claimed to capture…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has called on civil society organisations (CSOs) to expand their election monitoring efforts beyond general elections to include political party primaries. The commission emphasized that tackling vote-buying and other malpractices at the nomination stage is crucial to ensuring credible elections. INEC Chairman Mahmood Yakubu made this appeal on Tuesday…
Members of the Lagos State House of Assembly, on Monday, apologised to President Bola Tinubu for initiating the impeachment process against the former Speaker, Mudashiru Obasa, SaharaReporters has gathered. The apology followed a directive given by the leadership of the Governor’s Advisory Council (GAC) of the Lagos All Progressives Congress (APC) during an emergency meeting…
An informant to bandits, Ado Haruna, who set up his nephew, Alhaji Bashiru Anas and his family members for abduction, has revealed that he was given N200,000 out of the N13 million collected as ransom. The suspect arrested by the operatives of the Intelligence Response Team (IRT), was among criminals recently paraded by the…
A former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, has been acquitted and discharged of medical forgery charges brought against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Delivering the ruling on Tuesday, Justice Olubunmi Abike-Fadipe of the Special Offences Court in Ikeja, Lagos, upheld a no-case submission filed by Fani-Kayode’s legal team, ruling that the…
