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Alex Otti of the Labour Party (LP) has won the March 18 governorship election in Abia State. He trounced his opponents like Okey Ahiwe of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Enyinnaya Nwafor of the Young Peoples Party (YPP).   Otti scored 175,467, Ahiwe polled 88,529 while Nwafor got 28,972. The LP candidate also won 10 […]

  The United States Government has said it will consider “all available actions” against those who undermined the just concluded elections in Nigeria.   The US said it is deeply disturbed by cases of voter intimidation and the use of ethnically charged rhetoric during the gubernatorial and house of assembly elections held on March 18. […]

The Federal High High Court sitting in Lagos has struck out the Federal Government’s suit seeking to recover and forfeit the sum of N70trillion it alleged was stashed in 29 bank accounts by some looters. Justice Peter Lifu held that the Federal Government’s lawyers and the private lawyers which it subsequently gave a fiat, did […]

Central Bank of Nigeria’s Monetary Policy Committee has voted to increase the benchmark interest rate by 50 basis points to 18. percent. This was disclosed by the CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele, on Tuesday while reading the communiqué of the second MPC meeting. He said the committee also pegged the liquidity ratio at thirty percent. The […]

The heated governorship race has finally ended in 24 of the 28 states that participated in last Saturday’s polls with Kano State playing host to a historic win for the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP).   The over-20-year-old party claimed its first governorship seat through the victory of its standard-bearer Abba Kabir, a mentee of […]

Officially, five of the 11 governors who sought reelection in the March 18 polls held across Nigeria in West Africa have been declared winners by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to return to office for another four-year term each.   They are Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State, Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State, […]

  With Nigerians headed to the polls for the governorship and state House of Assembly elections, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) says no fewer than 65 persons have been arrested for alleged voter inducement.   The EFCC said that the suspects were nabbed across the 28 states where governorship elections were held. In […]

Barely 24 hours after gunmen killed a major and four soldiers in an ambush attacks in Igu village, Munya Local Government Area (LGA) of Niger State, the Nigerian Air Force has carried out a major offensive against bandits, killing “scores” of them in multiple airstrikes on their hideout.   The airstrikes were carried out on […]

  Musiliu Akinsanya, Lagos State Parks Management Committee Chairman also known as MC Oluomo, has withdrawn his threat to Igbo residents in Lagos.   While addressing supporters of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) at a meeting on Thursday, he had threatened Igbos who would not vote for the APC to stay off polling stations. […]

Latest report from the Global Terrorism Index (GTI) has shown that Nigeria moved to 8th position, moving down two steps from its place in 2022, an indication that the nation’s ranking has improved.   The report which is published annually by the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP), provides a comprehensive summary of the key […]

The Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD) has released its analysis of the key issues that will likely shape the electoral process and outcomes when voters head to polls to elect governors in 28 states and House of Assembly members in 36 states of the federation.   According to the 15-page pre-election brief, voters in […]

The National Security Adviser (NSA), Maj-Gen. Babagana Monguno (retd), has said the March 18 governorship and state houses of assembly elections are more complicated, but security agencies do not envisage violence or disruption of the process.   Monguno said this on Tuesday in Abuja at the Inter-Agency Consultative Committee on Election Security (ICCES).   According […]