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atholic Bishops in Nigeria under the aegis of Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) Friday asked the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the federal government to tackle reported alleged cases of underage registration by officials of the commission. The CBCN, in a communique issued at the end of its first plenary meeting of the year in Abuja, but made available to our correspondent in Ado Ekiti on Friday by the Bishop of Ekiti diocese, Most Rev Felix Ajakaye, decried reports that some eligible Nigerians were unable to register to vote due to lack of facilities.  The communique signed by the Archbishop of Jos, Most Reverend Ignatius Ayau Kaigama (President) and the Bishop of Ikot-Ekpene, Most Reverend Camillus Raymond Umoh, Assistant Secretary, CBCN said: "We hear of the registration of under aged persons. It is quite unfortunate that our young people allow themselves to be used as canon fodders in electoral malpractices. "Government and esp

President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday hit back at Transparency International over its corruption perception index indicating that corruption was getting worse in Nigeria. Buhari, in a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity Malam Garba Shehu, described as misleading and unfair, the ranking of 148 given Nigeria out if 180 countries surveyed. Shehu said President Buhari asked the anti-corruption watchdog to focus on facts, not fiction. He said while the Presidency noted and welcomed constructive criticism, the organization has a responsibility to reflect the larger picture of the concrete and verifiable achievements of the administration since it came into office. 

The Federal government has declared hate speech as an act of terrorism and warned that it will, henceforth, prosecute those who indulge in the practice. Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said henceforth, offenders of dangerous comments would be treated in accordance with the 2011 terrorism Act.  The minister who spoke yesterday at the second National Conference of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) in Kano reminded that government directive from National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) to sanction any broadcast station who allows its airwave to be used as medium for promotion of hate speeches, is still in place. According to Mohammed, the Federal Government has continued to promote ethical standard and the core responsibility of the Journalism profession, but an attempt to circumvent its rightful position in the society could be inimical to the national cohesion.He said the media as moulder of public view has huge responsibility of preserving national

The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, on Friday accused the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government of only showing decisive interest in launching intensive manhunt when cases of cattle rustling are involved without doing as much to protect innocent civilians who are sent to early graves by armed hoodlums operating as if they have licences to kill. HURIWA, in a statement issued by its national coordinator, Emmanuel Onwubiko accused the federal government of pursuing political correctness over mass slaughter in the country, condemned the inability of all the nation’s security forces to put an end to the intermittent killing of villagers by freelance armed hoodlums in Zamfara state. It pointed out that Buhari should have ordered the surgical and comprehensive law enforcement efforts to crush the growing number of well-armed militias operating in Zamfara state and whose identities may be known to security officials. The rights group made a case for the implem

The son of Buhari, Yusuf Buhari on Tuesday night had a bike accident around Gwarimpa area in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja. The statement further said that the President’s son had undergone surgery at a clinic in Abuja and now in a stable condition. After been discharged, he was reported to have been convulsing. Today 20th Feb 2018,he was said to be on a check up when he suddenly slumped, the doctors did all they could but couldn't save him. This was confirmed by the media and publicly secretary to the president,Malam Garba Shehu. The president and first lady are yet to comment on the issue and the Aso villa seem to be mourning.

Boko Haram militants (in camouflage) embrace and shake hands with Boko Haram prisoners, released in exchange for a group of 82 Chibok girls, who were held captive for three years by Islamic militants, near Kumshe, Nigeria, May 6, 2017. A Nigerian court has released 475 people allegedly affiliated with Boko Haram for rehabilitation, the justice ministry said on Sunday, as the country's biggest legal investigation of the militant Islamic insurgency continues. The first person convicted for the kidnapping in 2014 of Chibok schoolgirls, sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment last week, was also handed an additional 15-year sentence, to run back-to-back, the justice ministry said in a statement. More than 20,000 people have been killed and two million forced to flee their homes in north eastern Nigeria since Boko Haram (terrorists) began an insurgency in 2009 aimed at creating an Islamic state. But humanitarian groups have criticized the Nigerian authorities' handling of tho

AFTER five years of absence from the activities of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), the Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria (CSN) has rejoined the association. This was disclosed in a statement signed by the Special Assistant (Media and Communications) to the CAN president, Pastor Adebayo Oladeji. The Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria were said to have, in a letter dated September 24, 2012, and signed by Most Reverend Ignatius Kaigama, the President, Catholics Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria (CBNC) and addressed to the then CAN President, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor announced its withdrawal from the organisation. CAN was formed in 1976 by five Christian blocs in the country: the Christian Council of Nigeria (CCN); the Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria (CSN); the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria/Christian Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN/CPFN); Organisation of African Instituted Churches (OAIC), and the Tarayar Ekklesiyoyin Kristi a Nigeria or The Fellowship of the