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Continue ReadingAt least 109 election-related deaths have been recorded across Nigeria in the build-up to the 2023 general election, the Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD) has revealed. A pro-democracy think-thank, CDD, challenged and tasked the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to learn key lessons learnt from its conduct of the presidential poll of February 25 […]
Continue ReadingIndependent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has postponed Saturday’s governorship and state assembly elections in 10 polling units in the Victoria Garden City (VGC) around the Lekki area of Lagos state. Segun Agbaje, INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner, made the announcement when he addressed reporters at the VGC. According to him, corps members deployed as ad hoc […]
Continue ReadingThe name of the Labour Party candidate for Surulere 1 Constituency, Lagos State, Olumide Oworu, is missing on the final list of the House of Assembly candidates. Reports on social media especially Twitter had insinuated that Oworu’s name was missing. A Twitter user @StFrankingKezy in a tweet said “This guy is not even a candidate […]
Continue ReadingThe immediate past Ekiti Deputy Governor, Bisi Egbeyemi, is dead. He died at the age of 78. Egbeyemi was a deputy governor to Governor Kayode Fayemi. He served between 2018 and 2022. The former deputy governor died around 8 pm on Friday after a brief illness. He was said to have died at a private […]
Continue ReadingDear Aunty Temilolu, I will be 34 this year but still single. This was because I made a decision to abstain from sex until marriage. This has made men run away from me after one to three months of dating because I won’t give them what they want. I am not 100% clean because I […]
Continue ReadingMasked thugs on Saturday invaded some polling units at Ward D, Igando/Ikotun, Lagos State, and chased away voters in queue. The thugs chased away the voters with sticks and knives at the polling units located at Ijegun Community School. The polling units include 096, 116, 281, 094, 095 and 084. A News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) […]
Continue ReadingMonths ago, when the Independent National Electoral Commission announced its voter register listed a whopping 93.4 million potential voters, it was an exciting promise of how the elections would go. At the end of the day, the presidential election—which typically attracts more voters—ended up with an underwhelming figure. With all the raucous noise that the […]
Continue ReadingAt least three persons suspected to be political thugs have been killed in Gboko Local Government Area of Benue State. Reports say the thugs invaded the polling units 026 and 004, Gboko South while electoral processes were ongoing and attempted to snatch ballot boxes and the Bimodal Voters Accreditation System, BVAS. An eye-witness, Moses Agure-Dam […]
Continue ReadingPresidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the February 25 general election, Peter Obi, has voted at his Amatutu polling unit in Agulu, Anaocha Local Government Area of Anambra State. Obi, after voting at about 11.20 am, said he observed voter apathy and “transactional politics” unlike the February 25 presidential polls. The LP presidential […]
Continue ReadingSeye Dairo, the Campaign Director-General of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in Lagos State, Dr. Abdul-Azeez Olajide Adediran, better known as Jandor, has resigned. Dairo, who made the disclosure via a letter, failed to give any reason for taking the action. However, in the letter, Dairo expressed appreciation to Jandor for giving him the […]
Continue ReadingSeveral people including Ghanaian president are paying their last respects to the international football star, Christian Atsu, who died in last month’s devastating earthquake in Turkey. Atsu’s funeral is being held outside State House in Ghana’s capital, Accra. “In life I love you darling, in death I’ll do the same,” read the tearful tribute from […]
Continue ReadingLagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu has issued a warning to traditional institutions ahead of Saturday’s governorship and House of Assembly elections. The warning is contained in a statement signed by Lagos State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Gbenga Omotoso on Friday. There have been reports of some traditional rulers and traditionalists scheduling Oro rites in […]
Continue ReadingNigerian president, Muhammadu Buhari, has signed into law 16 bills seeking to amend various parts of the 1999 Constitution. The Joint Senate and House of Representatives’ Special Ad Hoc Committee on the Review of the 1999 Constitution made this known on Friday. Information from the Office of the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, […]
Continue ReadingLagos Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on March 16, 2023, arraigned one Prof. Uche Chigozie Edwin for an alleged N1.4bn fraud before Justice Nicholas Oweibo of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos. Edwin was arraigned alongside his companies, Visionary Integrated Consulting Limited, NEMAD Associates Limited and Revamp Global […]
Continue ReadingCleveland, a city in Ohio, USA, was long regarded as the sufferhead among American cities. Bearing on its big head the weight of an unfortunate nickname – The mistake on the lake – Cleveland shares a few similarities with Nigeria. How did Cleveland get its nickname? This is how. As recently as late the 1960s […]
Continue ReadingA staff Nurse working with Ahmed Sani Yariman Bakura Specialist Hospital, Gusau in Zamfara State slumped and died while discharging her duties at the hospital. The late nurse identified as Asma’u Lawali Bungudu, was said to be hale and hearty when she arrived the hospital in the early hours of Wednesday, March 15, 2023. The […]
Continue ReadingThe long awaited 2023 presidential and national assembly elections may have come and gone but the controversies surrounding its conduct by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is far from over. The 25 February presidential election, which was highly anticipated to be the most consequential election in the 24 years of the Fourthth Republic, fell short […]
Continue ReadingA school bus conveying children of ages one to five, summersaulted and injured the occupants on Thursday, in Lagos. The accident occurred in Surulere area of the state. A News Agency of Nigeria correspondent, who witnessed the accident, reports that the bus with registration number KTU-465DN hit a median barrier and pulled off a concrete […]
Continue ReadingGovernorship candidate of Lagos Labour Party (LP), Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour has teamed up with PSquare brothers to have a short commercial concerning Saturday’s Governorship election in Lagos. They are asking Lagosians not to be afraid and go all out to vote, as they asked them to vote for all Labour Party candidates from Head to Toe. […]
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