Opposition candidates in the upcoming gubernatorial election from some political parties stormed the Rivers State Police headquarters on Friday to protest what they claimed was intimidation by Governor Nyesom Wike ahead of the election on Saturday. Sen. Magnus Abe of the Social Democratic Party, Tonye Cole of the All Progressives Congress, Chief Dumo Lulu-Briggs of Accord, and Tonte Ibraye of t...

As 28 states go to the polls to elect their governors and legislators on Saturday, the National Peace Committee issued an appeal for peace on Thursday. Concern was voiced by the organization on what it called “open threats of intimidation and violence by certain groups within the society.” Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar (ret.), the chairman of the NPC and a former military head of state, said in...