There are reports that Damaturu, the Yobe State capital is currently under attack by men believed to be members of the Boko Haram Islamic sect.
This is the send time such attack is taking place after the city came under militant siege early last month. That attack was later repelled by Nigerian troops.
Eyewitnesses say the siege started around 8pm this evening and the number of casualties, if there are, are yet to be confirmed.
Ahead of February general elections, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, says it will publish the register of voters to be used to conduct the 2015 general elections on Tuesday January 13.
This is contained in the commission’s daily bulletin issued in Abuja on Friday.
“Section 20 of the Electoral Act 2010 (as amended) provides that the register of voters for an election shall be published at least 30 days before the elections that will take place on February 14 and 28, 2015.’’
According to the timetable for the 2015 general elections released on January 28, 2014, the commission shall release/publish the official Register of Voters for the election on January 13, 2015.
President Goodluck Jonathan says his administration will adopt improved technology to fight corruption in the country.
The president made the statement in Enugu on Friday at the PDP presidential campaign rally.
According to him, the best way to fight corruption is through improved technology and not by jailing people for 300 years.
“With technology, you can track down criminals. I am not going to run Nigeria on my heartbeat but according to international best practices.
The Independent National Electoral Commission on Friday said it would restrict the distribution of the Permanent Voter Card in Borno State to two of the 27 local government areas of the state due to the Boko Haram menace.
It also revealed that the exercise would be done between Saturday, January 10 and January 15.
Speaking with journalists, the outgoing Resident Electoral Commissioner in Borno State, Prof. Tukur Sa’ad, said the exercise would only be carried out in Maiduguri and Jere LGAs due to the prevailing security challenges.
He said INEC would also conduct Continuous Voter Registration for individuals, who had attained 18 years.
A pair of dramatic raids Friday in France led to the killing of three terrorists — one suspected in the fatal shooting of a policewoman, the other two in the massacre at the offices of Charlie Hebdomagazine — and to the freeing of at least some of those they were holding hostage.
The French government’s work is not over. There’s still a lot of healing to do, a lot of questions to answer about how to prevent future attacks, and the fact that a woman wanted in the policewoman’s shooting remains at large.
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