Chairman of the Union of Local Government Employees, NULGE, Ibrahim Khaleel, has called for the scrapping of State Independent Electoral Commissions, SIECs, saying they pose serious threat to the attainment of true democracy in Nigeria.
The Senate has reiterated that its rejection of Ibrahim Magu as the substantive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, still stands.
The Rivers State Police command has said that it has intensified its hunt for the killers of a Deputy Superintendent of Police, Mohammed Alkali, who was beheaded alongside his orderly during the Rivers legislative re-run election on December 10.
Former Senate President, Adolphus Wabara, has urged the Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Magu, as well as the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal, to act honourably and resign their appointments in order to face the corruption allegations leveled against them by the Department of State Services, DSS and the Senate respectively.
