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ABUJA – PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari for the third time has declined his assent to the Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill 2018. President Buhari The President had earlier declined assent to the bill twice. Speaking with State House correspondents on Monday, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly matters (Senate), Ita Enang said that the President in a communication to the Senate and the House of Representatives dated 30th August, 2018 conveyed his latest decision. According to him, the President again declined assent because of some drafting issues that remained unaddressed. Details later

- A PDP presidential aspirant, Malam Hamidu Tafida, is pleading with Nigerians to purchase a nomination form for him - He is asking one million Nigerians to put together N200 each and purchase the form for him - Tafida promised to create jobs through mechanised agriculture and rapid industrialization, if elected as president Malam Hamidu Tafida, a presidential aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), on Saturday, September 1, appealed to Nigerians to purchase a nomination form for him. Tafida made the appeal in Jalingo while declaring his intention to contest the 2019 presidential election, NAN reports. “I wish to officially make public my intention to run for the presidency of Nigeria. “Let me appeal to one million Nigerians to put together N200 each and purchase nomination form for me to enable me actualise this ambition for the good of all,”  he said. Tafida, a deputy director at Jalingo local government council in Taraba, noted that Nigeria...

Ahead of the forthcoming 2019 general elections, there have been several predictions about the chances of political parties and major politicians aspiring to various political offices. Recently, an independent Europe-based pollster, Zeus Polls predicted that the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Muhammadu Buhari, will likely win most states  in the 2019 gubernatorial elections. Zeus Polls had earlier correctly predicted the electoral victories of Willie Obiano of Anambra and Kayode Fayemi. The latest Zeus Polls findings signed by Tanko Suleiman, its operating officer in Berlin, Germany, was made available to journalists in Lagos on Tuesday, August 28. Similarly, a Borno-based man identified as Baba Gana Kachalla, has released his prediction the 2019 presidential election, state by state, based on his personal observation on his Facebook page. According to Kachalla’s prediction, President Muhammadu Buhari will win the 2019 presidential election. ...

  The Edo State government has evacuated 15 children from the God’s Own Orphanage, in Benin, pending the conclusion of on-going investigation into the case of a Elo Ogidi, who was allegedly stolen from the Christ Embassy Church, Oregun, Lagos and found at the orphanage in Benin.     Four-year-old Ogidi was stolen during a church service in July and found last Friday, at the God’s Own Orphanage, when policemen raided the facility after a tip-off.     The police have arrested the Proprietress of the Orphanage Home, Kehinde Blessing Imarhiagbe, for complicity in the alleged theft of Elo Ogidi. Read   here   Speaking with journalists on Friday, after sealing off the home, located at 25 Davies Street, off 2nd Dr. Garrick Layout, the Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Development, Magdalene Ohenhen, said the management of the home did not follow due process in admitting Elo into the facility. She said during the ...

FILE -- In this file photo from Monday, May 6, 2013, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., laughs as he and Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., left, cross paths in the Russell Senate Office Building, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Schumer of New York said in a statement he plans to introduce a resolution to rename that Senate office building after the war hero. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, file) Save WASHINGTON — With the death of John McCain, the Senate Armed Services gavel will almost certainly pass to James M. Inhofe of Oklahoma, marking a significant change in leadership style and priorities for the powerful panel. While the boisterous McCain was a hard-charging critic of both the Pentagon and the commander in chief, the more subdued Inhofe is, in many ways, the opposite. During his time as the Armed Services Committee’s ranking member from 2013 to 2015, the Oklahoma Republican rarely raised his voice, a marked contrast to McCain’s sometimes fiery outbursts from the comm...