New Delhi and Islamabad on Monday exchanged a list of civilian prisoners and fishermen in each other’s jails, officials said. The exchange was carried out through diplomatic channels simultaneously in New Delhi and Islamabad, India’s foreign ministry said. According to the ministry, the exchange was done in keeping with the provisions of the bilateral Agreement […]
By Adeyemi Adeleye Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, the Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says the commission has come with 142 recommendations to improve future electoral process . Yakubu said this at the opening of a two-day Induction Retreat for Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs) on Monday in Lagos. He said that the commission had published the […]
A court in Pakistan’s conservative Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province has sentenced a man(namewithheld) to life imprisonment for raping and kidnapping his underage wife, the victim’s lawyer said on Monday. “This is the first decision of its kind in the province,” the lawyer, Mian Safeer, said. The decision was announced by a court that deals with […]
By Philip Yatai The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mr Nyesom Wike, on Monday fumed over the allocation of land meant for a bus terminal in the Central Business District, Abuja. Wike, who made the complaint at the inauguration of the construction of Mabushi Bus Terminal, Phase I, in Abuja, described the action […]