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President Muhammadu Buhari in a simulcast on Friday describes elections as the cornerstone of representative governance, with voting constituting the highest and best expression of the sovereign will of the people to choose the government that best represents them. Here is the full text of the broadcast made on the eve of Presidential and National […]

Indications emerged that some result sheets meant for the senatorial election in some parts of Enugu West constituency went missing yesterday. The Guardian learnt at the Enugu branch of the Central Bank of Nigerian (CBN) that sensitive and non-sensitive materials were being moved to their locations when it was discovered that some of the items […]

A High Court in London headed by Justice Andrew Burrows has granted Nigeria’s plea to allow it proceed with the trial of JPMorgan Chase. The bank is alleged to have enabled the misappropriation of state funds totaling $875 million over the Oil Prospecting License, OPL 245. Mr Salihu Isah, Special Adviser on Media and Publicity […]

The Independent National Electoral Commission ( INEC ) has finally admitted Zamfara state All Progressive Congress (APC) candidates into the 2019 general election. This follows the Court of Appeal ruling on Thursday that the electoral commission should accept candidates of the party. The state APC was barred from presenting candidates owing to an internal crisis, […]

Lagos State has the highest number of Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs) collected by registered voters in the country, the Independent National Electoral Commission revealed Thursday. Out of the 6,570,291 registered voters in the state, Lagos voters collected 5,531,389 PVCs. The state is followed by Kano, with 4,696,747 PVCs collected out of the 5,457,747 registered voters. […]Read More

Two All Progressives Congress (APC) members were reportedly injured Thursday during an alleged attack on the convoy of Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, in the Kwara State capital, Ilorin. Prof Osinbajo was in Ilorin in continuation of his door-to-door campaign with residents of the state ahead of next Saturday’s polls. Though, the details of the incident […]

Barely 24 hours to polls opening in presidential and national assembly elections; and despite the fact that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has refused to accept the list of APC candidates for the 2019 general elections, the Court of Appeal, Abuja Division Thursday night upturned the decision of the Abuja Division of the Federal […]

The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, has disclosed that card readers would shut down automatically by 10 pm on the day of elections, “in order to forestall any illegal use of the card readers.” Yakubu made the revelations in Abuja at a briefing on the progress made by the […]

The Nigeria Labor Congress (NLC) has said President Muhammadu Buhari’s comment on dealing summarily with ballot box snatchers or arsonists in upcoming elections is not a license to kill by security forces. NLC President, Ayuba Wabba, stated this in a statement yesterday in Abuja. Wabba urged INEC to be fair, impartial and just, to all […]

A Lagos High court has issued a bench warrant for the arrest of the former Super Eagles Captain Austin Jay Jay Okocha for snubbing the court over why he failed to pay his income taxes.  Okocha was dragged before the court by the Lagos State Ministry of Justice for failure to submit returns of his […]