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A Magistrate’s Court in Kano has remanded the Majority Leader of the House of Representatives, Alhassan Ado Doguwa, at a correctional facility over charges of culpable homicide and arson.   Doguwa was taken before Court 58 of the Magistrate’s Court in Nomansland area of the state metropolis Wednesday evening following his arrest at the Malam […]

Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has been declared winner of arguably Nigeria’s most hotly contested and high-stakes presidential elections. Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmood Yakubu, announced the former Lagos Governor’s victory, minutes past 4am on Wednesday at the National Collation Centre in Abuja, a hall packed […]

The flag bearer of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu is in the lead in Nigeria’s keenly contested presidential election with official results coming in from 32 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja.   According to results presented by state collation officers for the presidential election (SCOPs) before the Chairman of the […]

The All Progressives Congress and its presidential candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, on Tuesday, commenced a legal battle to prevent moves by opposition parties to halt the ongoing collation of Saturday’s presidential election results.   The candidate and his party filed a suit to restrain the Labour Party and the People’s Democratic Party preventing the continuous […]

Some opposition parties in the country have asked Professor Mahmood Yakubu, chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), to step down.   The parties – Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Labour Party and the Action Democratic Party (ADP) – made the call at a press briefing in Abuja on Tuesday.   Julius Abure, Chairman of […]

  The Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Ndudi Elumelu of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has lost his bid to return to the National Assembly. He was defeated by the candidate of the Labour Party, Mr Ngozi Okolie in the election conducted for the Aniocha/Oshimili Federal Constituency of Delta on Saturday. According to […]

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has appealed to the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Mahmood Yakubu to save the country from impending danger by rectifying the errors in the recent elections.   Obasanjo’s request was contained in a statement he personally signed on Monday. Nigeria held the Presidential and National Assembly polls last […]

Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr. Peter Obi has defeated the All Progressives Congress Presidential Candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu in Lagos, his (Tinubu’s) home state.   Though Tinubu won more local governments, Obi defeated him with the majority of the votes cast.     All the results of the 20 local governments have […]

The Independent National Electoral Commission in Delta State has rejected the presidential election results of Ika North East Local Government Area, the local government area of the vice presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party and governor of the state, Ifeanyi Okowa, citing over-voting.More to come.

Presidential candidate of Labour Party, Peter Obi, has defeated his All Progressives Congress (APC) rival, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, in Ikeja Local Government Area of Lagos State.   In the results announced by the Collation Officer, Obi polled 30,004 to defeat Tinubu in Ikeja LGA where he (Tinubu) comes from. Tinubu scored 21,216.

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has asked United States President Joe Biden to ban Nigerian officials, politicians and other perpetrators and sponsors of violence during the February 25 elections. Nigerians had gone to the polls on Saturday to elect a new president and members of the National Assembly for a four-year tenure. There […]

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 […]