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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said Sunday it has suspended electoral processes in Rivers State due to “widespread disruption” of elections on Saturday. “The initial reports suggest that violence occurred in a substantial number of polling units and collation centers,” INEC’s head of information and voter education committee Festus Okoye said. “Staff have been […]

Gunmen have killed a policeman, an official of Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) and abducted three ad hoc staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Katsina. The State Police Command confirmed that the killings and abduction took place during the governorship and state assembly election in the state on Saturday. The […]

All electoral materials for Mbalom ward in Gwer East Local Government Area of Benue, were in the early hours of Saturday, burnt by armed hoodlums. According to a witness, the hoodlums on arrival fired shots in the air before setting on fire the RCM Primary School Aya, housing the materials. Mrs Ngunan Yongo, the Electoral […]

Ondo governor Rotimi Akeredolu yesterday evening declared an indefinite dusk-to-dawn curfew in Oba Akoko in Akoko Southwest Local Government area of Ondo state, following a “heightened level of violence and aggressive attempts at disrupting the electoral process.” “The Ondo State Government has instituted a mandatory curfew in Oba Akoko until further notice,” said Akeredolu. Although […]

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Ebonyi has confirmed are were no elections in three Registration Areas (wards) hit by violence in the governorship and state house of assembly in the state on Saturday. Prof Godswill Obioma, INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in Ebonyi, confirmed this while addressing newsmen in Abakaliki on Saturday on […]

For the second time in a fortnight, Nigerians went to the polls to elect governors in 29 of the 36 states, all state assemblies and administrative councils in the Federal Capital Territory of Abuja. Vote counting began after polls closed on Saturday in the keenly fought governorship and state assembly elections, held against a backdrop […]

The Independent National Electoral Commission (lNEC) said it has replaced and reconfigured the 198 Smart Card Readers that were on Friday burnt in its office in lbesikpo Asutan Local Government, Area of Akwa lbom State. Festus Okoye, INEC National Commissioner and Chair, Information and Voter Education Committee (IVEC), in a statement issued on Friday in […]

The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed an appeal filed by Former First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan to upturn the $8.4 million interim order of forfeiture made against her. Justice Ejembi Eko, in a unanimous ruling held that it was incumbent on the appellant to prove before the trial court while the order should not be […]

The Nigerian Army on Thursday announced the redeployment of some of its senior officers. Those affected by the latest posting are; Maj.-Gen. E.C.N. OBI, who moves to the Defence Headquarters as Chief of Defence Standard and Evaluation. Maj.-Gen. L.F. Abdullahi, from Headquarters Nigerian Army Education Corps, moves to Defence Headquarters as Director Veteran Affairs Division […]Read More

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC will next Thursday, March 14 issue certificates of return to Senators and House of Representatives who emerged winners in the Feb 23 National Assembly polls. INEC Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, disclosed this in Abuja during a meeting with Inter-Agency Consultative Committee on Election Security (ICCES) yesterday.  He said the […]

Ahead of the governorship and state assembly elections nest Saturday, there is anxiety across the country about the use of the smart card readers. One of the allegations raised to discredit the Presidential and National Assembly elections was that while the use of the card readers was strictly enforced in the southern part of the […]

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) still owes Nigerians an explanation on how it expended the humongous resources that accrued to the country from oil sales between 1999 and 2014, President Muhammadu Buhari raised the issue in Abuja yesterday, at a meeting with labor leaders, who came to felicitate with him on his electoral victory. An […]