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INEC Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has dissociated itself from the current videos and pictures in the social media platforms, showing under-aged persons thumb-printing ballot papers and voting in an election. INEC made the clarification in a statement signed by its Director, Voter Education and Publicity, Oluwole Osaze-Uzzi in Abuja on Tuesday. Osaze-Uzzi said the images which have gone viral did not relate in any way to any election organised, conducted or superintended by the commission.

A Karmo Grade 1 Area Court, Abuja, on Tuesday sentenced two men, Richard Christian and Komolafe Shegun, to six months imprisonment each for stealing seven cell phones in a church. Christian and Shegun, both 24, were arraigned on a two-count charge of conspiracy and stealing, offences they admitted committing, and begged for leniency. The judge, Abubakar Sadiq, however, gave each of the convicts an option of N20, 000 fine and warned them to desist from committing crime. Prosecutor Dalhatu Zannah, had told the court that the convicts committed the offences on Feb. 2, at the Mountain of Fire Ministry Church, Utako, Abuja.

The stage is getting set for the September 22 governorship election in Osun State as more chieftains of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) go public with their desire to succeed outgoing governor Rauf Aregbesola. But as the much anticipated election draws closer, with Aregbesola still preferring to keep chieftains and members of his party guessing about who he has in mind as his likely successor, party sources say APC members with governorship ambition may have decided to bring their aspiration into the open while hoping they will eventually get the nod of the governor. Findings by our correspondent revealed that before now, unlike their counterparts in the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), gubernatorial hopefuls on the platform of the ruling party have been keeping their political activities in check, preferring instead to continue with what one of them described as ‘underground intra party consultations’, largely due to their desire to know Aregbesola’s disposition...

The ANC has decided to sack Jacob Zuma as President of South Africa, a senior official said on Tuesday, after a marathon meeting to determine the fate of a leader whose scandal-plagued years in power darkened and divided Nelson Mandela’s ‘Rainbow Nation’. The decision by the ruling party’s national executive came in the early hours of the morning, after 13 hours of tense deliberations and one face-to-face meeting between Zuma and his presumed successor, deputy president Cyril Ramaphosa. Zuma has been living on borrowed time since Ramaphosa, a union leader once tipped as Mandela’s pick to take over the reins, was elected as head of the 106-year-old ANC in December, narrowly defeating Zuma’s ex-wife, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma.

Leaders of a group, Concerned Indigenes of Kaduna Central Senatorial District, yesterday, said they have initiated moves to recall the senator representing the district, Senator Shehu Sani. Senator Sani, in a reaction, described the group as “fake”, saying they operated from a hotel because they had no valid office address. Addressing newsmen in Kaduna, leader of the group, Aliyu Saidu Rigachikun, said the recall became necessary because they had enough of Senator Sani’s criticisms of President Muhammadu Buhari and the ruling APC.

 From the look of things, Wizkid and Tiwa Savage appeared to have revealed that there may be more to their closeness than meets the eye.  Those, who have been observing the two music stars, are suggesting that Tiwa and Wizkid’s closeness is becoming a big issue that is already setting tongues wagging. First, it was their recent collaboration on Tiwa Savage’s Malo, which also featured Spellz that gave the people something to talk about. Wizkid and Tiwa got cozy in the visuals of the song, but people thought it was just part of the effect to interprete the concept of the video and make it look real.

Imo State Governor Rochas Okorocha has named his Chief of Staff, Uche Nwosu, as his successor in 2019. Nwosu is Okorocha’s son-in-law. The governor, at a meeting with members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) from Owerri Municipal Council Area, said his decision to support Nwosu is derived from the fact that Nwosu has “the qualities of an ideal leader”. The governor, however, said Nwosu is yet to inform him if he is nursing any governorship ambition.