Abuja – The Department of State Services (DSS) has dismissed of one of its staff, Jaja Otelemaba, for taking bribe from motorists while on election duty in Ekiti. DSS Mr Peter Afunanya, Public Relations Officer of the Service, in a statement on Saturday in Abuja, said the officer was seen on social media where he was negotiating with a motorist for financial patronage. “The fact is that when the news broke, the Service initiated a line of investigative actions. “These include the search and identification of the said officer; his withdrawal from the duty post and issuance of a memo as applicable to his cadre and rank,” he said. He said that Otelemaba was tried in an orderly room and summarily dismissed in line with the Service’s disciplinary procedures. The spokesman said that the dismissal was in accordance with the Director General of the Service’s commitment to promote discipline in the Service. He said that his stance on issues concerning discipline has contin...

INEC Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu (file). The Independent National Electoral Commission has reacted to the allegation that the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, offered the Resident Electoral Commissioner in Adamawa State, Kashim Gaidam, $1m and a house in Dubai. INEC condemned the allegation in a tweet on Monday. READ ALSO:  INEC Reopens Political Campaigns The tweet was in reaction to a social media post which alleged that the former vice president had compromised the elections in Adamawa, his home state. But INEC condemned the post, saying, “The Adamawa INEC REC completely dissociates himself from the allegation that he had an offer of $1m and a house in Dubai as no offer whatsoever was ever made to him by anyone.” This comes two days after the electoral body postpone the general elections, which was initially scheduled to commence on Saturday last week, by one week. Following the postponement, INEC reopened campa...