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Abia Governorship: Why Appeal Court Judgement is Faulty, By Civil Right Group   Civil society groups, under the auspices of Civic International, has expressed concern over an emerging trend whereby electorate in the country are continuously losing their voting rights through judicial pronouncements. The group particularly frowned at the judgement delivered by the Appeal Court on the Abia State Governorship Election Petition for disenfranchising three local government areas made up of 230,092 voters. Addressing journalists recently in Abuja, the Coordinator of the group, Abdulrazak Gidado Ajala, said as human rights activists group, it is concerned about the ruling of the Appeal Court because it failed to take into consideration the fact that most of voters whose votes were voided should not have been made to suffer the deprivation. "As human rights activists, we have discovered that the right to vote of these local government areas has been trampled upon by th

Sexual Violence: British High Commission Laments Increased  Cases in Nigeria Today, the British High Commission has declared that lack of statistical details and poor implemen tation of the relevant laws, a re the reasons the incidences of violence against women are high in the country. The c ommission also charged the federal government to embark on awareness campai gn on the existence of the law, adding that adequate statistics should be provided for government to prepare legal and final frameworks on how to eradicate the menace. The  Communication Manager and Political Adviser, British Deputy High Commission, Mr Wale Adebajo, said  this at a stakeholders’ workshop on the ‘V iolence a gainst  Persons Prohibition Act, 2015 organised by  New Initiative f or Social Development. Adebajo said it was quit e disheartening that most Nigerians, whose interest the law passed b y the National Assembly in 2015 after 13 years of its proposition, were oblivious of its

Man, 28, Arrested for Killing Pregnant Woman for Ritual A middle-age man of 28 has been arrested by the Akwa Ibom State Police Command for allegedly killing a pregnant woman for ritual purpose at Ikot Otu, Mbiabo village in Itu Local Government Area of the state. The man identified as Edet Stephen Asuquo was arrested by security operatives last Monday while four other culprits in connection with the crime are being trailed by the police. The state Police Commissioner, Mr. Murtala Mani, who paraded the suspect at the state police headquarters, Ikot Akpan-abia, today said the crime was committed for ritual purpose. Mani who briefed journalists in the state through the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Cordelia Nwawe ASP, said the attention of the police was drawn to the incident by the sister of the suspect. The police boss expressed worry that the family of the deceased could not be traced as the body has been deposited at the morgue, urging me