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Nigerian journalist, Dr Ode Okore, has been awarded a total of $99,599 and a separate N3m by the National Industrial Court, Lagos Division, in a 33-year-old case against The Guardian newspaper. Dr Ode Okore who was the newspaper’s foreign correspondent at one time and also in charge of The Guardian North American Bureau in New […]
Continue ReadingObodo Oyinbo is very tough most of the time but help came the way of a sick Nigerian man who is also homeless and stranded in Houston, United States of America. The man’s plight was brought to social media after Nigerian entertainer who is based in the United States, Chinomso Prince Egbuchere, spotted him laying […]
Continue ReadingLagos lawyer and rights activist, Femi Falana SAN has expressed worry over the possibility of conducting credible elections in Nigeria. The senior lawyer, who was a guest on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily, described the 2019 general elections as an ‘expensive joke’. Falana said: “This country spent over N250 billion from public purse on this useless […]
Continue ReadingThe Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP) on Tuesday released a list of five Justices of the Court of Appeal who it said have been approved to hear the petition of the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, over the February 23 election. CUPP claimed that the list was approved by the […]
Continue ReadingSuspended Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen, was absent from the Tuesday’s proceedings of the Code of Conduct Tribunal, where he has been charged with six counts of non-declaration of assets. Explaining his absence to the three-man Bench of the CCT, his lawyer, Chief Adegboyega Awomolo SAN said, the suspended CJN developed a toothache […]
Continue ReadingEuropean Union Election Observation Mission (EUEOM) to Nigeria has called for electoral reforms after the 2019 general elections. The missions Chief Observer, Ms Maria Arena, made the recommendation at the second presentation of its preliminary report on Monday in Abuja, according to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN). Ms Arena said that the Election Observation […]
Continue ReadingPeoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Mr. Emeka Ihedioha, has emerged the Imo State governor-elect. Mr. Ihedioha polled 273,404 votes to defeat 69 other candidates including his closest rival, Uche Nwosu of Action Alliance who scored 190,364 votes. While announcing the results at the office of the Independent National Electoral Commission in Owerri at exactly 10.08 […]
Continue ReadingOpposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has taken the lead in Kano state as the results of Saturday’s governorship election from 43 out of the 44 LGAs in the state were presented by the INEC Returning Officer at the state collation centre early Monday. Abba Kabir Yusuf of the PDP is contesting against the incumbent governor […]
Continue ReadingA Kano State Commissioner has been stripped and the deputy governor arrested allegedly for election results manipulation according to Daily Trust newspaper. Watch the video below: Video: Daily Trust
Continue ReadingHouse of Assembly candidate of the All progressives Congress (APC), Ezekiel Afon, has died just hours after winning the election into his State constituency According to Voice of Nigeria (VON), Hon. Afon died few hours after winning the seat for the Pengana Constituency into the Plateau State House of Assembly. He was said to be […]
Continue ReadingOfficials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Rivers State have fled the state headquarters of commission. The Head of Department, Voter Education and Publicity of the commission, Edwin Enabor, said they had to leave because of the siege to the office by men in military uniform. Senior officers of the commission surreptitiously left […]
Continue ReadingKwara State Gubernatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Alhaji Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq, has won in all the 16 local government of the state in the gubernatorial election held on Saturday. 15 local government election results had earlier been announced on Sunday morning with the last local government, Baruten, declared on Sunday afternoon. In the […]
Continue ReadingThe former governor of Akwa Ibom Mr Godswill Akpabio on Saturday night stormed Essien Udim Local Government Area collation centre. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) officials alleged that he is insisting on foisting a regime of collation on official. INEC officials on ground further alleged that the former governor stormed the center with a […]
Continue ReadingThe Oyo state Governor, Mr. Abiola Ajimobi has lost his polling unit to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Saturday, two weeks after losing Oyo South senatorial election to Dr. Kola Balogun of the PDP. Ajimobi’s All Progressives Congress polled 112 to the PDP’s 145. His polling Unit 20, ward 11 unit is located within […]
Continue ReadingPicture of underage voters taken by Premium Times reporter which resulted in his abduction. A PREMIUM TIMES journalist, Kunle Sanni, was on Saturday morning abducted by political thugs for taking pictures of underage voters at a polling unit in Plateau State. Mr Sanni, who was monitoring the elections in the area, was accosted by an […]
Continue ReadingCounting of votes has commenced in polling units in Bauchi State, producing its first shocker as incumbent Governor Muhammed Abubakar of APC lost his polling unit to Bala Mohammed of PDP. Announcing the outcome of the election in the governor’s Gindin Durumi polling unit of Bauchi metropolis, Presiding Officer, Mr. Chinedu Onora, said the governor […]
Continue ReadingGerald Connolly, American Congressman, has deplored manipulation of elections in Nigeria, claiming that 2019 Nigerian elections were a sham and not credible. At an interactive session on Friday with constituents from Virginia who paid him a visit on Capitol Hill, the Democratic congressman and member of the Foreign Affairs Committee had been asked questions about […]
Continue ReadingMrs Patience Jonathan, wife of former Nigerian President, Goodluck Jonathan, has again lost at the Supreme court. The Court has upheld the order of temporary forfeiture made by a Federal High Court in Lagos in respect of the $8.4million traced by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) The former First Lady, Mrs Patience Jonathan […]
Continue ReadingFormer Akwa Ibom governor and ex-Senate minority leader, Mr Godswill Akpabio, who decamped to APC has withdrawn a case he filed in court challenging his Senate reelection loss. Mr Akpabio’s lawyer, Sunday Ameh, announced the withdrawal in court in Abuja on Friday. He did not give reasons for his decision. Mr Akpabio filed the case […]
Continue Reading2,153 people made it to the 2019 Forbes list of the World’s Billionaires and 13 of them are black, which is an improvement from last year when only 11 blacks made it to the list. Nigeria’s Aliko Dangote is still leading as the richest black person in the world with a fortune estimated at $10.9 […]
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