Governor Umaru Bago of Niger has dissolved the State Independent Electoral Commission (NSIEC).
He called on the party executives, other members and stakeholders to demonstrate unflinching loyalty and respect for the supremacy of the party.
He appealed to the inmates to use the opportunity to engage in useful ventures and shun any act that could lead them back to prison.
Some of the suspects were said to have been arrested with the support of the military deep inside an insurgents’ environment.
The men allegedly kidnapped the Benue Commissioner for Housing and Urban Development, Ekpe Ogbu, on December 4, 2022.
Magistrate Farouk Ibrahim-Umar, sentenced them after they pleaded guilty.
The accused also collected the complainant’s motorcycle for hire purchase to pay N200,000, but he only paid N 18,000 and criminally absconded.
The federal government introduced the NHF scheme to enable contributors, mostly civil servants, to secure flexible loans to build their own houses.
Police authorities in Taraba confirmed the attacks, also declaring one soldier missing.
The defendant killed the siblings – two minors and an adult – on January 13, at 5.00 p.m., at the Oke-Orogun area of Saki, Oyo.
