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Former Nigerian Vice President, General Donaldson Oladipo Diya is dead. He died at the age of 78. Diya’s death was announced in a message that went viral on social media and signed by one of his children, Prince Oyesinmilola Diya, on behalf of the family, that Diya died in the early hours of Sunday, March. […]
Continue ReadingPresidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) sitting in Abuja, Nigeria, on Friday, ordered that the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, should be served with copies of petitions seeking to nullify his election, through substituted means, on APC. The ruling followed separate ex-parte applications that were brought before the court by the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, […]
Continue ReadingAll Progressives Congress (APC) presidential campaign council (PCC) has said there was no plan for a meeting in London between Bola Tinubu, president-elect, and Olukayode Ariwoola, chief justice of Nigeria (CJN). In a statement on Thursday, Bayo Onanuga, media director of the campaign council decried an attempt to create doubt about the legitimacy of the […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja, on Friday, set aside the tribunal judgment that nullified the election of Ademola Adeleke as governor of Osun State, with N500,000 awarded as cost against the All Progressive Congress (APC) and its candidate, Gboyega Oyetola. In a unanimous decision by a three-member panel of justices, led by Justice […]
Continue ReadingBritish High Commission has said the UK Minister of State for Development and Africa, Andrew Mitchell MP, is prepared to take action against those who engaged in or incited electoral violence during the just-concluded general elections in Nigeria. The high commission, which said it deployed observers in six states, said the UK was already collating […]
Continue ReadingChief Spokesman for the Labour Party Presidential Campaign Council (LP) (PCC), Yunusa Tanko, has described the allegations in the petition sent to the Department of State Services (DSS) by his counterpart in the All Progressives Congress (APC) PCC, Festus Keyamo, as baseless. Tanko responded hours after Keyamo wrote to the DSS accusing the presidential candidate of […]
Continue ReadingFormer Nigerian Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, his wife, Beatrice, have been found guilty of organ trafficking in the United Kingdom. After a six-week trial at the Old Bailey, the duo alongside their daughter, Sonia, and a medical doctor, Dr. Obinna Obeta, were found guilty of facilitating the travel of a young man to Britain […]
Continue ReadingBola Tinubu, Nigeria’s President-elect, on Tuesday night travelled out of the country to spend some time in Paris and London, reports say. Tunde Rahman for the Office of the President-elect, in a statement, said that the trip will enable Tinubu to rest and plan his transition programme ahead of his inauguration on May 29. Rahman […]
Continue ReadingNigerian economist, banker, investor, philanthropist and politician, Alex Otti of the Labour Party (LP) has won the March 18 governorship election in Abia State, Nigeria. He trounced his opponents, Okey Ahiwe of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Enyinnaya Nwafor of the Young Peoples Party (YPP). Otti scored 175,467, Ahiwe polled 88,529 while Nwafor got […]
Continue ReadingGunmen suspected to be assassins have killed a husband and his wife in Allen Avenue, Ikeja area of Lagos State, Nigeria. Engineer Femi Egbeoluwa, the Sogunro of Ilaro-Yewa in Ogun State, and his wife were murdered in the early hours of Saturday, March 18, 2023. The killers were said to have gained entrance into their […]
Continue ReadingPresidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has also approached the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal to contest the declaration of Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as President-elect. This came hours after the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, approached same tribunal to challenge Tinubu’s victory. A […]
Continue ReadingReports are going rounds on social media, that the Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate, Mr. Peter Obi, is not seeking to be declared the winner of the Presidential election. Responding, a popular Nigerian human rights lawyer, Inibehe Effiong, has released a statement via his twitter handle, where he noted that such reports are false and […]
Continue ReadingIn a statement made available to newsmen on Tuesday, the United States has condemned voter intimidation and increased violence that marred the Governorship and State Houses of Assembly elections on Saturday. The rescheduled Governorship and Houses of Assembly elections were held in 28 states and 36 states, respectively, amid increased violence and voter intimidation when […]
Continue ReadingPresidential candidate of Labour Party (LP), Mr. Peter Obi, has formally filed his petition at the elections tribunal to protest the outcome of the February 25 poll. This was disclosed in a statement issued by the Chief Spokesperson of the Obi-Datti Presidential Campaign Council, Dr Yunusa Tanko. Tanko’s statement read: “It is official the Labor […]
Continue ReadingFamous Youtuber, Sisi Yemmie, and her husband were prevented from casting their votes on Saturday, March 18, because they look like the Igbos. In a tweet she posted, she said she and her husband went to their polling units at Awoyaya, Lagos state to vote but some persons stationed at the gate refused them to […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) governorship candidate, Abba Kabir Yusuf winner of the last Saturday election in Kano State. Yusuf defeated his close rival, the All Progressive Congress (APC) candidate, Nasiru Yusuf Gawuna with a margin of over 100,000 votes. According to the results declared by […]
Continue ReadingAt least 17 people were killed in various acts of electoral violence in Lagos, Rivers, Delta, Cross River, Niger, Akwa Ibom, Osun, and Benue states as violence, apathy, and disenfranchisement of voters marred Saturday’s governorship and state House of Assembly elections. Explaining the low turnout of the voters, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party […]
Continue ReadingNigerian Pastor, Apostle Johnson Suleman has said that the two elections recently conducted in Nigeria have proven that the Permanent Voters Card (PVC) used to cast votes during elections is useless. The clergyman stated this while preaching in his church today March 19. He mentioned that Nigeria is not in any way practicing democracy but […]
Continue ReadingFormer Nigerian President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, says Nigerians should be responsible for selecting leaders through a democratic process and not by the judicial system. He made this statement on Saturday, March 18 after he cast his vote in the governorship and state assembly election. Jonathan and his wife, Patience, voted in Otuoke, in the Ogbia […]
Continue ReadingGovernorship candidate of the Labour Party in Lagos State, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, has stated that he will defend the votes of his supporters in the election held on Saturday. Rhodes-Vivour made this known via a tweet on his Twitter page on Sunday. He said: “Firstly, I would like to thank all Lagosians, especially our supporters, for […]
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