The Chairman, Lagos State Independent Electoral Commission, Mrs. Ayotunde Phillips, has said the commission will no longer fold its arms and watch political thugs disrupt the electoral process in the state.
She spoke on Tuesday at a stakeholders’ forum organised by the commission at the City Hall, Lagos Island, Lagos.



The Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra, on Tuesday, declared that an Igbo man would never become Nigeria’s president.
In a statement signed by MASSOB leader, Uchenna Madu, entitled, “We insist on Biafra through non-violence, not Igbo presidency,” the pro-secession group berated Igbo leaders, describing them as “political slaves” who had no chance of ruling the country.

Police arrest killers of American soldier


The Police in Imo State have nabbed the suspected killers of Oscar Okebata, an American veteran soldier who was robbed and murdered in Atta in the Ikeduru Local Government Area of the state on January 12, 2017.
This was even as a police Sergeant, Iseke Koradam, was arrested at a hospital in Oke – Uvuru in the Aboh Mbaise LGA of the state in an alleged attempt to steal a newly born baby.



A former policeman, Adeh Ada, has been arrested by the Lagos State Police Command for allegedly parading himself as a cop in the state, eight years after his dismissal.
PUNCH Metro learnt that Ada, who was attached to the Mopol 11 in Calabar, Cross River State, was dismissed sometime in February 2009, for losing his firearm.



Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said lack of good leadership and not God is responsible for the nation’s woes.
He also said that the present generation of leaders had failed the country because they lacked the focus and commitment to move the nation forward.


Members of the House of Representatives exchanged words on Tuesday over the health status of President Muhammadu Buhari.
Lawmakers quarrelled over the use of the word “sickness” in referring to Buhari or explaining his reason for being away from the country to the United Kingdom since January 19.
Former President Goodluck Jonathan met with governors elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party in Abuja on Monday night over the lingering crisis in the former ruling party.
The meeting, which started a few minutes after 6pm, was held at the office of the former President located at Maitama District. It ended at exactly 10.07pm.
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