The Independent National Electoral Commission has released its reports on the governorship elections held on March 9 , 2019, in Rivers and Bauchi states. The statements released on the commission’ s Twitter handle was signed by INEC’ s National Commissioner and chairman of its Information and Voter Education Committee , Festus Okoye. Our correspondent had reported that INEC had suspended the governorship and House of Assembly elections in Rivers State till further notice following violence and threat to the lives of voters and the ad - hoc staff of INEC. See the tweets INEC Nigeria @inecnigeria Press Statement On Rivers Governorship Election b:1/View image on TwitterView image on TwitterTwitter https://twitter.com/inecnigeria INEC Nigeria @inecnigeria Press Statement On Bauchi Governorship Election b:2/View image on TwitterView image on Twitter https://twitter.com/inecnigeria

More than two years after losing two children to suspected kidnappers , joy has returned to the family of Fatai and Suliat Azeez , who have welcomed a set of triplets at their home on Aiyepe Avenue in the Okokomaiko area of Lagos State . A crowd of residents and well - wishers thronged the house, on Monday, to catch a glimpse of the babies . The newborns, two girls and a boy , were given birth to on Thursday, February 28 , 2019. In November 2016 , Suliat , who had a hairdressing workshop in the Okokomaiko area, had taken a new apprentice, who gave her name as Grace . Grace, whose real name is Gladys Austin , had been asked to resume after promising to bring a guarantor the following day. However , she was said to have tricked Suliat’ s two children , Kafayat ( six ) and Farouk ( four), and allegedly disappeared with them that same day. Efforts by the family to locate the children had proved abortive. However , in March 2017, the suspect was arrested by operatives of the Specia...

The Deputy Speaker of the Nasarawa State House of Assembly , Godiya Akwashiki , has been beaten and stripped naked by suspected hoodlums. In a viral video , Akwashiki , who emerged senator- elect for the Nasarawa North Senatorial District , was seen tied with a rope by the gang . There was blood in his mouth as he protested weakly while his assailants pummelled him. It was learnt that the lawmaker was beaten at a private residence in the Maitama area of Abuja. He was alleged to have attempted sleeping with the wife of a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, Alhaji Danladi Envuluanza. The lawmaker , who currently represents Eggon West in the state House of Assembly, however, denied trying to sleep with any politician’ s wife , adding that he was stripped at gunpoint . He also claimed that he was tricked to the venue of the incident , where he was beaten by the hoodlums. The Commissioner of Police, Federal Capital Territory , Bala Ciroma , said the matter was under inv...