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The All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate in Enugu State, Sen. Ayogu Eze has urged the INEC to include his name in the Saturday governorship elections as directed by an Abuja Appeal Court. Briefing journalists in Enugu on Friday, Eze alleged that barely eight hours to the election, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had […]

  Alhaji Kaugama Abdullahi, INEC’s Resident Electoral Commissioner for Kaduna State has reiterated that there would be no voting in Saturday’s Governorship and State Assembly elections without the use of the smart card reader. Addressing a joint news conference with heads of security agencies in the state a few hours before the March 9 polls […]

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 Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has postponed the House of Assembly Election for the Nasarawa/Binyeri State Constituency of Adamawa. The Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) , Mr. Kashim Gaidam, disclosed this to reporters in Yola. Gaidam said that the postponement became necessary following the death of a member of the assembly, who was candidate of […]

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

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, yesterday declared that the illegal arrest of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) members by the military will not stop the party from emerging victorious in tomorrow’s elections. An army source told The Guardian that the State Commissioner of Education, Tamunosisi Gogo-Jaja, who was arrested on Wednesday, has been handed over to […]

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 […]

The protest against the military’s involvement in elections continued yesterday with a group in Abuja under the aegis of Save Democracy Women (SDW) cautioning against further deployment of soldiers for polls. On Tuesday, a pro-democracy group known as Impact Future Nigeria (IFN) staged a peaceful protest in Abuja over the militarization of the 2019 general […]

Jeff Bezos remains the world’s richest person, ahead of Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, according to the latest Forbes list of the ultra-wealthy, while far behind President Donald Trump jumped 51 spots in the ranking. Trump is now 715th in the world, far behind Africa’s richest man Aliko Dangote, who is 136th with a net […]