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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has alerted Nigerians of an alleged sinister plot by the presidency to specially trained operatives to manipulate the card readers during the elections. “We have just discovered that the APC has hired many operatives. It has taken them to China to be trained. And they have […]

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has reaffirmed that it will uphold the Supreme Court ruling on its decision not to accommodate any All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate from Rivers State in the ballot paper for the coming elections. The apex court upheld the order of a Federal High Court in Port Harcourt nullifying the […]

The federal government on Wednesday ordered the immediate payment of February salaries to civil servants so as to encourage them to participate in the rescheduled Saturday presidential and senatorial election, next Saturday, February 23. “On the part of the Federal Government we decided that to make it easy for those who will want to go […]

Unknown gunmen have assassinated a chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Imo State Ifeanyi Ozoemena. Ozoemena is the APC chairman in Logara/Umuohiagu Ward in Ngor Okpala Council Area of the state. He was murdered in his house on Tuesday night shortly after he reportedly presided over a meeting of the party in the […]

The Kwara State Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Mallam Atahiru Madami, has said that both Presidential and Senatorial election result sheets meant for the state were found in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) of Abuja. He added that the result sheet meant for Lagos state senatorial election also found its way to Kwara state. “The result […]

Maryam Awaisu, a writer activist, and one of the leading campaigners of #ArewaMeToo, an online campaign against sexual violence, especially against women, in northern Nigeria was released hours after she was arrested on Tuesday by men of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) of the Nigerian police in her office in Kaduna.  The London-based human rights […]

The Presidency on Tuesday defended President Muhammadu Buhari’s death threat to ballot box snatchers, saying the president’s incendiary comments should be “seen as a strong message against the long history of savagery associated with elections in the country.” “Snatching ballot boxes often entails putting the lives of innocent Nigerians at risk,” Presidential spokesman Garba Shehu […]

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Kaduna state governor, Nasir El- Rufai on Tuesday admitted that no fewer than 130 persons were killed in the communal clashes in Maro, Kajuru Local Government and not 60 as he previously announced. “The last report we got is that over 130 people were killed not even 66 and the Fulani leaders have provided the […]

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) yesterday, categorically refuted reports alleging its resident commissioner in Adamawa had received a $3m bribe from the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar. There have been widespread reports in the media claiming that the PDP and Atiku had earmarked huge amounts of monies to buy […]

The main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) rose from its 84th National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting yesterday, warning security agencies against carrying out the shoot-on-sight order issued by President Muhammadu Buhari against ballot box snatchers. The PDP national chairman, Prince Uche Secondus, declared that “the agenda of that directive is to scare away voters and […]

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has reversed itself to permit the resumption of campaign activities by political parties, ahead of presidential end national assembly elections rescheduled for next February 23. “In the meanwhile, after consultation with the political parties, the Commission has approved that campaigns by parties and candidates can resume forthwith; to end […]