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Some aggrieved members of the People’s Redemption Party (PRP) on Saturday took over the streets in Kaduna to protest against the immediate past National Chairman of the party, Falalu Bello. The protesters accused Bello of promoting disintegration in the party, especially in Kaduna State. They defied the security agents who stormed the popular Jos Road, near the central market in several operational patrol vehicles. The protesters accused Bello of planning to open a parallel factional party office in the area and asked him to ‘leave Kaduna North alone’. Speaking on behalf of the protesters, Bashir Bello, secretary of the party in Kaduna North Local Government, said they were protesting because of plans to create a factional office in the local council, when the existing party office has been there for the last three years.  Also speaking, Kaduna PRP Chairman, Abdulrahman Haruna Danbrini, wondered why Bello, who was removed from office in 2020 for illegalities, was circulatin

The National Identity Management Commission has shut down its headquarters in Abuja and stopped the National Identity Number enrolment activities to avoid the spread of COVID-19. According to NIMC Spokesman, Kayode Adegoke, the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, gave the directive on Saturday. SaharaReporters had reported how large crowds visited the NIMC offices across the country for NIN registration. The development comes after the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) directed telecommunications companies to block SIM cards not registered with the NIN. See Also Politics Large Crowds Defy COVID-19 Protocols, Storm NIMC Abuja, Lagos Offices For NIN Registration 0 Comments 2 Weeks Ago Nigerians had criticized the directive which has been described as sudden. Adegoke said the minister reactivated 20 other centres within the FCT to make the process of NIN enrolment much easier for applicants effective Monday, January 18 2021. He advised

The Onyedega, Ibaji-Idah Road in the Ibaji Local Government Area, awarded by the Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello for rehabilitation since 2017, is presently impassable as work has yet to commence on the project. Residents told SaharaReporters that the road, which connects to the South-East region through Anambra State and Idah LGA, has paralysed their socio-economic activities and brought hardship to the Ibaji community. Our correspondent, who visited the area, observed that the 54-Kilometre road has at least eight gullies, which residents said had killed several travellers in the recent past. Most of the gullies on the road are covered with water, and some people put boats on the gullies to wash their fishing nets during a visit to the area. The state governor, Yahaya Bello, in his first term in 2017, visited the Ibaji community and announced that the government had awarded the road project. In a video clip of the commissioning as reported by a national television

Operatives of the Delta State Police Command have arrested a suspected Internet fraudster, popularly called yahoo boy, with his girlfriend’s corpse after he was caught attempting to dump the body of the lady, Blessing Akpovwovwo, in a bush. The suspect, said to be a resident of Urhuoka, Abraka in the Ethiope East Local Government Area of the state, is cooling his heels in police detention. Sources said the suspect, whose identity has yet to be ascertained, was nabbed by a passerby on Thursday evening, as he (the suspect) was attempting to dispose of the lifeless body of Blessing. It was gathered that though the lifeless body of the lady was intact, sources said she might have been used for rituals. Other sources claimed that the deceased was pregnant, and it looked like a case of forced abortion to get the foetus for ritual purposes. It was further gathered that the corpse had blood in her private parts. Confirming the incident to journalists, the Head of Ugono-Abraka comm

Omoyele Sowore Omoyele Sowore, a Nigerian publisher and activist, has urged Ugandans to ensure that President Yoweri Museveni doesn’t enjoy ‘the fruit of a stolen mandate’. On Saturday, the Uganda Election Commission declared Museveni the winner of Thursday presidential election in the country. Omoyele Sowore Chairman of the commission, Justice Simon Mugenyi Byabakama, said Museveni won a sixth term in office with 58.6 per cent of the votes while main opposition candidate, Bobi Wine, got 34.83 per cent. The poll followed one of the most violent campaigns in years, with harassment and arrests of the opposition, attacks on the media and the deaths of at least 54 people. Thursday’s election took place in an apparent calm but under soldiers’ oppressive presence and riot police and an Internet blackout. Museveni has ruled Uganda without pause since seizing control in 1986 when he helped end years of tyranny under Idi Amin and Milton Obote. He is one of Africa’s longest-serving