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A Justice of Nigerian Court of Appeal, sitting in Akure, the Ondo State capital, Justice Lokulo-Sodipe, has passed away. The justice died at the age of 67. Justice Lokulo-Sodipe was said to have slumped in his office on Monday while dressing up to attend a court session. Reports say that all attempts to revive him proved […]
Continue ReadingIn their preliminary statement and recommendations made available to journalists in Abuja, Nigeria, the Joint Election Observation Mission (JOEM) of the International Republican Institute (IRI) and the National Democratic Institute (NDI), on Monday, said the presidential and National Assembly election held last Saturday fell short of reasonable expectations of Nigerians. The 40-member delegation of the […]
Continue ReadingPresidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Mr Peter Obi, has floored the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos State. This was based on the collation of results at the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Lagos State collation centre in Yaba. Obi polled 582,454 votes to trounce the former Lagos State […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) office in Takai Local Government Area of Kano State has reportedly been gutted by fire. Reports say that the incident happened at around 09:30 am on Sunday when some unidentified persons started beating people which forced election observers, journalists and INEC officials to scamper for safety and hide in […]
Continue ReadingThe Resident Electoral Commissioner for Ekiti state has announced the results for the presidential election in the state and said the All Progressive Congress (APC) won. See below: A- 69 AA- 29 AAC- 108 ADC- 1337 ADP- 737 APC- 201, 494 APGA- 268 APM- 46 APP- 91 BP-46 LP- 11,397 NNPP- 264 NRM- 131 PDP- […]
Continue ReadingActivist, Mma Odi, has said that any observer group that scores INEC high in the conduct of the February 25 Presidential and National Assembly election is a Yahoo-Yahoo observer and an enemy of Nigeria. Speaking on AriseTV Sunday afternoon, Oma said: “Any observer group that says INEC performed well with any grammer they used on […]
Continue ReadingA prominent member of a leading political party in Idanre Local Government Area of Ondo State, Mr. Akinlabi Akinnaso has been killed by a security agent at INEC’s collation centre. Akinnaso, popularly known as Oluomo lost his life in the early hours of Sunday, February 26, after he was allegedly shot by one of the […]
Continue ReadingLabour Party (LP) has asked Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to cancel “unverified and manipulated results” arising from Saturday’s presidential and National Assembly elections in parts of Rivers State. Labour party chairman, Julius Abure, in a statement released on Sunday, February 26, alleged that elections were manipulated in places like Obio/Akpor, Khana, Eleme, Obigbo […]
Continue ReadingLabour Party (LP) Presidential candidate, Peter Obi, on Saturday, defeated the presidential candidates of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, and that of the major opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, at the Presidential Villa, Asokoro, Abuja. Obi won the highest total number of votes cast for the presidential candidates at all […]
Continue ReadingNigeria conducted on Saturday, the first of the two separate days of general elections and results are already trickling in from Polling Units in the ongoing Presidential, Senate and House of Reps elections. Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) officials have concluded voting and sorting of results in some Polling Units while ballot counting has […]
Continue ReadingA trailer fell alongside the container it was carrying at Ojuelegba in Lagos state, Nigeria, on Friday night, February 24. This incident came barely three weeks after nine persons including children perished after a container fell on a commercial bus at the foot of the same Ojuelegba bridge. Thankfully, no life was lost in this […]
Continue ReadingPresidential candidate of the New Nigerian People’s Party (NNPP), Rabiu Kwankwaso has cast his vote in the ongoing Presidential and National Assembly elections in Nigeria. Kwankwaso vote at about 11:00 am at his Tandu Pooling Unit, in Madobi Local Government Area, Kano state. The NNPP presidential candidate, struggled to reach the polling booth as he […]
Continue ReadingPresidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has voted and expressed optimism of winning the presidential election. Atiku stated this while speaking with newsmen after casting his vote at Ajiya 02, in Gwadabawa Ward, Yola North Local Government of Adamawa at exactly 9:10 am. He expressed optimistic that victory is his […]
Continue ReadingThe All Progressives Congress(APC) Presidential candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu and his wife, Oluremi Tinubu, have cast their votes in their polling unit, in Lagos, Nigeria. The former Lagos State governor performed his civic right alongside his wife, Remi Tinubu, at Polling Units 085, Ward 3, Sunday Adigun, Alausa, Ikeja, Lagos State.
Continue ReadingChairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, Nigeria, Mr. Sunday Zaka, is dead. The politician lost his life in an auto crash in Abuja in the early hours of Saturday, February 25. A close aide to the deceased, Bawa Benjamin, who confirmed the incident said the accident happened […]
Continue ReadingPresidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Mr. Peter Obi, and his wife, Margaret, cast their vote at his polling unit in Agulu ward 2, Anaocha LGA of Anambra state this morning. Mr. Obi, who is one of the leading presidential candidates in the elections, cast his vote around 11:43 am amid cheers from his […]
Continue ReadingIn Kogi State, the voters in Ogege road, Odaba Polling Unit in Dekina Ward have to flee from the voting arena following the activities of political thugs who came in large numbers to destroy voting materials. According to Punch, he thugs who appeared with machetes and guns snatched ballot boxes, broke chairs and dispersed voters. […]
Continue ReadingChairman of Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abdulrasheed Bawa has disclosed that the anti-graft agency arrested a man with the sum of N30 million of the new naira notes. Bawa made the disclosure during an interview on ‘Your View’ programme on Television Continental (TVC). “Just yesterday, we arrested somebody with N30 million of […]
Continue ReadingAttorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami says with regard to the Naira redesign policy and the Naira swap policy, President Buhari has not acted in breach of the case instituted at the Supreme Court by some state governors. Malami stated this while appearing on the Ministerial Media Briefing organized by […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has on Friday intercepted the sum of N32,400 million allegedly suspected to be used for vote buying in Lagos State. The spokesperson for the EFCC, Wilson Uwujaren, in a statement, revealed that the recovery was made by operatives of the Lagos zonal command of the commission and that […]
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