The anti-Magu hysteria that has gripped a section of the media and civil society hoodwinked by our duplicitous senate and its collaborators is appalling. Magu's confirmation letter was read in the senate on July 14, 2016. It took our do-nothing senate exactly five months, on the day it was going on recess for the year, to get around to "screening" him.
The Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, has set up a panel of investigation to look into the crisis that characterized the Rivers legislative rerun elections.
A 60-year old woman in the Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, camp in Maiduguri has cried out that the food allocation they received from government on monthly basis was not enough to sustain them beyond two days.
The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Mahmood Yakubu has said that the commission will punish all of its officials and ad-hoc staff who engaged in electoral malpractice during the legislative re-run election in Rivers State.
