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The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC has declared Governor Abdullahi Sule of the All Progressives Congress, APC winner of the Governorship election in Nasarawa State, North-Central Nigeria. The returning officer in the election, Professor Tanko Ishaya who made the declaration said Abdullahi Sule was re-elected after polling the highest votes of 347,209. He defeated his […]
The Kebbi State Governorship election in North-West Nigeria has been declared inconclusive. This follows the outbreak of violence, destruction of election materials and over-voting in 20 out of the 21 local government local areas. The crisis had led to attacks on four youth corps members who were ad-hoc staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission, […]
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Kwara State has declared the Incumbent Governor of Kwara State, Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the Winner of the 2023 Governorship Election in the state. The Returning Officer for the Governorship Election in the State, Professor Isaac Itodo said Abdulrazaq having satisfied the requirements […]
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has declared the All Progressives Congress Governorship candidate in Katsina State Dikko Radda as the winner of Saturday’s Governorship Election. Declaring the result at the INEC State Collation centre in Katsina on Sunday evening, The Vice Chancellor of the Federal University Gusau, Professor Muazu Abubakar who is the state […]
As the Governorship and House of Assembly election continues across different centres in the country, there have been pockets of violence recorded across various polling units in Lagos. Although there have been unconfirmed reports of political thuggery, and voters intimidation from videos gathered from social media, our correspondent reports that voting took a dramatic turn […]
#NIGERIADECIDES2023. Voting has commenced across different centres in the country as Nigerians goes to the polls to decide their leaders in the Governorship and Sate House of Assembly elections. President Muhammadu Buhari has voted at his home town Daura, Katsina States. The President who arrived Daura yesterday via the Umaru Musa Yar’adua Airport in Katsina […]
President Muhammadu Buhari has voted in his home town Daura, Katsina Stateas. The President joined millions of Nigerians to vote in the Governorship and State House of Assembly Election scheduled by the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC, for today, 18th March 2023. The President voted at Polling Unit A, in Kofar Baru 11, Niyam Sarkin […]
Ahead of the Saturday governorship and State assemblies elections, the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC), Wednesday obtained and distributed sensitive and non-sensitive election materials across the 20 Local Government Areas, LGAs in Lagos. Addressing newsmen during the distribution, INEC, Lagos Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, Mr Olusegun Agbaje noted that ” as the election for governorship […]
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) leadership, has reiterated its resolve to direct workers to stay away from the office if the Federal Government failed to address the cash scarcity and fuel shortage in the country. The congress stated this in a communiqué issued on Tuesday after the inaugural meeting of its Central Working Committee in […]
Nigeria has rejoined the United Nations peacekeeping operations after pulling out due to insurgency ravaging the country in 2013. In a statement on Wednesday by the Acting Head of Mission and Force Commander of the United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei, Major General Benjamin Sawyerr said Nigeria was inducted back into the UN peacekeeping […]
