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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 Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in Kwara, Malam Attahiru Madami, says the Tsaragi Polling Unit 10 result would be cancelled following a case of ballot box snatching by hoodlums on Saturday.   Tsaragi is in Edu Local Government Area of Kwara.   Madami told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday that the cancellation […]

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has suspended elections in 141 polling units (PUs) in Bayelsa State over insecurity. The INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, said this on Saturday during the second situation briefing, at the national collation centre in Abuja. According to him, the 141 PUs are in four wards of Yenagoa in Bayelsa […]

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has suspended elections in 141 polling units (PUs) in Bayelsa State over insecurity.   The INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, said this on Saturday during the second situation briefing, at the national collation centre in Abuja.   According to him, the 141 PUs are in four wards of Yenagoa […]

 6 views,  6 views today The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has appointed Dr Isa Abdulmumin as the Acting Director, Corporate Communications Department. Abdulmumin takes over from Mr Osita Nwanisobi, who has retired from the apex bank. Until his appointment, Dr Abdulmumin was a Deputy Director in the Corporate Communications Department. His predecessor, Nwanisobi, took over in October 2020 when […]Read More

 6 views,  6 views today Hauwa Indimi-Yar’Adua, daughter of Maiduguri oil mogul, Mohammed Indimi, has defended her decision to name her son Noah instead of Nuh The expectant mother and her husband, Mohammed welcomed their son in 2019. In an Instagram story on Friday, February 24, Hauwa said she doesn’t care what people think about what she calls her […]Read More

 6 views,  6 views today The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said that the results of Saturdays presidential and National Assembly elections will be declared as quickly as possible. INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, who spoke at a media briefing in Abuja on Friday, February 24, also said that the process will not suffer any encumbrance due […]

 6 views,  6 views today Two weeks after South African rapper, Kiernan AKA Forbes, was shot dead in Durban, his mother, Lynn Forbes paid an emotional tribute to him.  Taking to Instagram on Friday, February 24, 2023, she shared a photo of herself standing over her son’s casket at his funeral which was held last weekend.  “Oh my heart…The […]Read More

 6 views,  6 views today No life was lost after a trailer fell alongside the container it was carrying at Ojuelegba in Lagos state on Friday night, February 24.  This incident comes barely three weeks after nine persons including children perished after a container fell on a commercial bus at the foot of the bridge. Watch videos from the […]

 6 views,  6 views today  The Anambra State Resident Electoral Commission, Dr. Queen Agwu, has assured members of the state that elections will be held in all the 5,720 polling units in the 21 local government areas of the state despite insecurity in the state. Agwu also stated that out of the 2.5 million people registered to vote, […]Read More

 6 views,  6 views today The Kogi State Government has said that the excavation of some roads in Kogi Central is a deliberate security measure to cut off traffic on those roads with a view to restricting the use of the roads by criminals who had been breaching the peace of the area with attendant loss of […]

 6 views,  6 views today UN Under-Secretary-General and Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, Alice Wairimu Nderitu, has said that there’s been a surge in the use of inflammatory language and hateful and divisive rhetoric ahead of the 2023 election in Nigeria.  Speaking at a briefing held at the UN House in Abuja on Friday, February 24, […]