The presidential candidate of the Progressives Congress (APC) , Bola Tinubu, has urged Lagos residents to avoid any act of violence as the results of the presidential election trickle in. Peter Obi, the candidate of the Labour Party (LP), was declared the winner of the presidential election in Lagos State today. Obi polled 582,664, while…
Hon Ned Nwoko of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has been declared Senator-elect for Delta North. The Returning Officer, Dr. Josephine Okeakwa, who declared the result at Oshimili South LGA, said Nwoko polled 92, 514 votes from the nine local government areas of Delta North to defeat his closest rival, Mr Kennedy Kamma, of the…
The National Industrial Court of Nigeria has ordered the reinstatement of a lecturer of Ekiti State University, Ado Ekiti, Dr Ololade Aduwo, who was dismissed in December 2019 by the university authorities over an alleged s3x scandal involving a female student, Rachel Olatosin. This was contained in the judgement of the industrial court, Akure Division…
The Director General, Labour Party Presidential Campaign Council, Akin Osuntokun, has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission to follow the stipulated guidelines of the Electoral Act or cancel the entire election process. Osunkotun made the call during a press conference in Abuja on Monday. According to him, President Muhammadu Buhari, pledged to Nigerians free…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has recorded a comfortable victory in his home state, Adamawa. He defeated his main challengers, Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Peter Obi of the Labour Party by a wide margin in Saturday’s presidential election. The PDP candidate polled a total of 417,611…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested a 73-year-old woman, Comfort Muoneke, for been in possession of 20 Permanent Voter Cards. Two of her accomplice, Afekhana Esther and Segun Osaimokhai were also arrested. The EFCC in a statement on its Facebook handle on Sunday said, “Operatives of the Benin Zonal Command of the Economic…
Officers of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, led by Commander of the EFCC, Aliyu Yusuf, on 25th February, 2023 arrested two alleged vote buyers in Gusau, Zamfara State. While Mustapha Abubaka was arrested with the sum of N107,000 (One Hundred and Seven Thousand Naira) only in one thousand naira denomination and tickets specially…
Some voters at Polling Unit 084 in Rushari Rhakubu in the Jos North Local Government Area of Plateau State on Saturday night held officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) hostage over faulty Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) machines. Polling officials were held hostage until Sunday morning and let go with the intervention of…
The independent National Electoral Commission office in Takai Local Government Area of Kano State has reportedly been gutted by fire. It was gathered 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…
Over 100 persons, including voters, party agents, politicians and supporters are at the secretariat of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Warri South Local Government Area of Delta State over the non conduct of elections in major parts of the council. The council boss, Dr. Michael Tidi and agents of parties have just concluded…
