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As Nigerians began voting for a new president on February 23, after a week-long delay that raised political tempers, sparked conspiracy theories and stoked fears of violence, no fewer than sixteen people were killed on Saturday in electoral violence across the country; according to The Situation Room umbrella network of pro-democracy civil society organizations monitoring […]

The All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council has alleged a sinister plot by the Peoples Democratic Party to attack ward and local government collation centres across the country. In a statement issued by its Director, Strategic Communications, Mr. Festus Keyamo, the party alleged that PDP was recruiting thugs nationwide to launch the attack between Saturday […]

Unprecedented violence; the best way to describe yesterday’s national elections! Many Nigerians, including President Muhammadu Buhari, might not be disappointed, given the level of tantrums thrown around by politicians in the lead up to the crucial elections. He had had to issue a shooting threat to ballot box snatchers, and he got a good dose […]

Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) Akwa Ibom, Mike Igini said the commission will cancel polls in units where ballot boxes were snatched in the state. Igini made the disclosure while addressing newsmen on the conduct of the Presidential and National Assembly elections in Akwa Ibom on Saturday. “We were able to […]

Nigeria Army said it arrested about 15 armed men suspected to be political thugs in Ikebiri 1 in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State. The army said the thugs had planned to disrupt the presidential and national assembly elections in the Southern Ijaw Local Government Area in the state. An army spokesman, Jonah […]

As polls opened in the presidential and national assembly elections today across the country, there are some key Senate races to watch on account of the political pedigree of the candidates; who are either serving governors whose tenures are winding up or former governors who are slugging it out with some political heavy weights, in […]

The Kwara State Police Commissioner Mr. Kayode Egbetokun, yesterday said Senator Rafiu Ibrahim, PDP senatorial candidate for Kwara South, and seven other suspects in the state were arrested in connection with the incidents at Ojoku, where one person was killed, and Ilorin where there was an attack on the convoy of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo. […]

Operatives of the Nigeria Police Force on Friday night intercepted vehicle loaded with bomb along Ughelli-Patani Road Delta State. The suspected weapons, loaded in a White Toyota Hilux vehicle without a number plate, included 128 pieces of explosives and five pieces of electric detonators which have been handed over to the Explosives Ordinance Department (EOD […]

The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP), Prince Uche Secondus, Friday said the peace accord signed by the two frontline Presidential candidates, Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Atiku Abubakar of the PDP, was dead, noting that “APC and President Buhari are not disposed to peace as they have flagrantly […]

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 […]