The Acting Inspector General of Police, Mr Solomon Arase, has ordered a restriction of vehicular movements in Local Government Areas where re-run elections will be held in five states on Saturday.
This is contained in a statement signed by the Police Public Relations Officer, Mr Emmanuel Ojukwu in Abuja on Friday.
According to the statement, the order affects vehicular movements in local government areas in Abia, Imo, Delta, Kogi and Taraba states between 8am and 5pm, where the re-elections will be held.
The Independent National Elections Commission in Delta State said it will conduct elections in 56 wards and 803 polling units in Delta Central Senatorial District on Saturday after earlier elections were declared inconclusive.
Elections in these wards and units were declared inconclusive by the electoral umpire on March 28 following allegations of irregularities.
The INEC’s Head, Voter Education and Publicity in the state, James Popoola , said the commission will conduct elections in Ethiope East (11) wards, (157 polling units) ,Ethiope West (2 wards ,4 polling units), Okpe (8 wards,106 polling units) ,Udu (8 wards ,97 polling units) , and Ughelli North (9 wards, 178 polling units).
South Africa’s parliament will be suspended from next week to enable lawmakers to return to their constituencies to spread the anti-xenophobia message, in the wake of deadly attacks on African migrants.
The move is the latest in a series of government initiatives aimed at quelling weeks of violence against foreigners, which has left at least seven dead and driven thousands from their homes.
“We can?t carry on at Parliament like it is business as usual,? National Assembly speaker Baleka Mbete said, adding that lawmakers were being released to take part in “appropriate” activities.
A statement issued by the parliament stressed the need for tolerance.
Ten counter-terrorism police officers attached to the Nigeria army peacekeeping forward operation base in Abuja are currently unlawfully detained at a military barrack in Gwagwalada, Abuja, PREMIUM TIMES has learnt.
The personnel were locked up since Tuesday without food and medical care for refusing to wear military fatigues for an operation they feared could be illegal.
According to the detainees, they were detained on the instruction of a Colonel Kalejaye, head of the army forward operation base, because they refused his directive to “impersonate” soldiers by wearing their uniforms for a training in Kaduna State.
A former governor of Enugu State, and the candidate of the People for Democratic Change in the Enugu East senatorial election, Sen. Chimaroke Nnamani, has filed a petition against the declaration of the incumbent, Sen. Gil Nnaji of the Peoples Democratic Party, as the winner of the poll.
A statement signed by the Chairman of the PDC in Enugu State, Comrade Sunday Ani, said Nnamani has formally petitioned the National Assembly Election Petition Tribunal in Enugu to challenge the result declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission.
The party chairman said the election was characterised by widespread irregularities.
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