Day: December 29, 2013

Council polls were held in Yobe State on Saturday under heavy security. Several voters turned out for the exercise to elect chairmen and councillors into the 17 local government areas in the state. All the polling booths in the state had combined teams of security personnel manning them. Soldiers, police, civil defence corps and immigration…

A former acting governor of Kogi State, Clarence Olatunde Olafemi, on Thursday, survived an attempt on his life by some armed men. The incident occurred along the Kabba/Okene road in Lokoja, Kogi State capital. The hoodlums severally shot at his car as his driver attempted to zoom off. Olafemi, an acting governor of the state…