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One of the Civil Society Organizations (CSO), Yiaga Africa, has said that the results of the presidential election from Imo and Rivers are inconsistent with its projections for the states. In a statement on Wednesday, the organisation said the results announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) were manipulated. “The state-level presidential results for […]
Continue ReadingTalking seriously, Democracy as a concept was alien to Africa, and by implication, Nigeria. Largely, right from inception, democratic norms and values were never assimilated and internalised by Africans. At best, its definition and perception were conveniently based on assumptions. So, it meant different things to different people who thought differently! Needless to repeat that […]
Continue ReadingA Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) chieftain who looks like Ladan Salihu has claimed that the votes Labour Party got in Lagos were allegedly reduced to favour the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). Speaking during an interview on live TV, the PDP chieftain revealed that results from their situation room showed Labour Party in Lagos had […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, as the winner of the Saturday, February 25, presidential election. The Chairman of the Commission, Mahmood Yakubu, who announced the final result at exactly 4.10 a.m. Wednesday, March 1, said after days of collation of results from […]
Continue ReadingFormer Lagos State governor and All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu together with his party, have filed a lawsuit to restrain the two main opposition parties, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Labour Party (LP) from following through on their threat to ensure that the continuous announcement and collation of results grind to […]
Continue ReadingAt a joint press conference, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the Labour Party (LP) and African Democratic Congress (ADC) have demanded a fresh election, saying the February 25 presidential election has been “irretrievably compromised”. LP National Chairman, Julius Abure; the PDP National Chairman, Iyorchia Ayu; as well as their ADC counterpart, Ralph Nwosu, made this […]
Continue ReadingThe best way to describe what has happened to Nigeria in the last 72 hours, beginning with the country’s first set of general elections on Saturday, February 25, 2023, is to echo Charles Dickens’ poetic, oxymoronic declaration in his novel “A Tale of Two Cities” (1859) on the radical opposites between Paris and London in […]
Continue ReadingNigerian actor, Adeniyi Johnson and his wife, actress Seyi Edun, popularly known as Orente, have welcomed a set of twin babies. The couple, who waited on God for a child for 7 years after their wedding, took to Instagram to share the good news. Proud dad Adeniyi shared photos of their babies’ hands and wrote: […]
Continue ReadingA 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 ReadingWho registered the kids we saw in the election queues in Kano on Saturday? I watched video clips of women on lines with four, five, six-year-old kids. They were all there to cast votes. I saw, in another video, a boy – a child – who was emphatic that he was at the polling unit […]
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 ReadingIt is the day after. Fogs are gradually clearing (or not clearing) from the face of the firmament. Though we may not see as clearly as American singer-songwriter, pop star and reggae musician, Johnny Nash, saw when he magisterially pronounced that “I can see clearly now,” we can at least see beyond the ridges of our noses. Whichever […]
Continue ReadingDear Ma, I saw your post on Facebook reaching out to 29 to 45 years old virgins and I thought to reach out to you. Although I am not in Lagos, neither am I in the age bracket, I just felt the need to get in touch with you. I live in Abuja and I […]
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 ReadingNigerians renewed their desire for a better country yesterday when they went to the polls to elect the next president, 108 senators (no election in Enugu East because of a candidate’s death) and 360 members of the house of reps. Two weeks from now, they will elect 28 governors and 993 state lawmakers. After inauguration, […]
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