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Gov. Atiku Bagudu of Kebbi has expressed appreciation to the people for re-electing him in Saturday’s governorship poll in the state. Bagudu expressed his feelings at news conference to mark his victory in Birnin Kebbi on Monday. He said that the entire people of the state deserved to be thanked for giving him yet another […]

Muktar Idris of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has emerged winner of Zamfara governorship election held on Saturday. Muktar secured 534,541 votes out of the 810,782 votes cast across the 14 government areas of the state. Announcing the result, the Returning Officer, Prof. Kabir Bala said “Muktar Idris of APC having met all the requirements […]

Imo governor Rochas Okorocha has not been recognised as a senator-elect by the Independent National Electoral Commission. The stance of the electoral umpire was reflected in the list of senators published on its website on Monday. Okorocha’s name was conspicuously missing in Box 47, where his name ought to have been printed. Instead, INEC put […]

APC’s Inuwa Yahya declared winner of Gombe governorship election The candidate of the All Progressives Congress Alhaji Mohammad Inuwa Yahya has been declared the winner of Gombe state gubernatorial election. Yahya polled a total of 364,179 votes to beat the People’s Democratic Party’s Usman Bayero Nafada, who scored 222, 868 votes in the Saturday’s poll. […]Read More

  Facts are beginning to emerge why angry youths set ablaze the office of the Independent National Electoral Commission in Umuneke Ngor, Ngor Okpala local government area of Imo State on Sunday. An eyewitness said the incident happened when security personnel arrived to take away election results of the just concluded Governorship and State Assembly […]

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and All Progressives Congress (APC) in Benue State have engaged in a shouting match over the violence and alleged polls fraud, which led to the cancellation of elections in Mbalom ward, Gwer East Council. Mbalom is the settlement where herdsmen killed two Catholic priests and 17 parishioners in St. Ignatius […]

Abia State Governorship election returning officer and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Nigeria Nsukka Professor Benjamin Ozumba this evening declared Dr Okezie Ikpeazu of the People’s Democratic Party as the winner of Saturday’s election. He announced that Ikpeazu scored 261,127 votes to beat his APC opponents Dr Uche Ogah who scored 99,574 and APGA Dr […]

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in Ebonyi State, David Umahi has been declared the winner of the governorship election held last Saturday after polling total votes of 392,291 to defeat his All Progressives Congress (APC) counterpart, Senator Sunday Ogbuoji who garnered 81,234. Announcing the result at INEC headquarters in Abakaliki the State Returning […]

The Oyo State governorship candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Engineer Seyi Makinde has won the March 9, governorship election. He defeated the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate Chief Adebayo Adelabu in a keenly contested election. Declaring the result, the State Chief Returning Officer who is also the Vice Chancellor, University of Lagos Prof […]

The alleged manipulation of the presidential and National Assembly election, incidents of multiple deaths, and the militarization of the exercise, among other factors were blamed for the severe voter apathy as Nigerians elected state governors and assemblymen, yesterday. In addition to this, the failure of INEC to pay the allowances of some ad hoc staff […]

Following the refusal by the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal to allow the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its candidate, Atiku Abubakar, the power to have a forensic examination of ballot papers, lawyers say the petitioners will bring a fresh application during the hearing of the petition. Justice Abdul Aboki, leading a three man panel had […]

Prof Pius Adesanmi, a Nigerian was among the 157 dead victims of the ill-fated Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737-800 Max that crashed this morning shortly after take-off in Addis Ababa. The plane billed for Nairobi had 32 Kenyans on board, the largest group of nationals in the ill-fated plane. There were 33 different nationalities on board […]