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The official website of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has been hacked. Now, the www.inecnigeria.org url, is displaying the name of the hackers Nigerian Cyber Army, who have posted their own message on the site. The group also posted a cartoon of President Goodluck Jonathan and General Muhammadu Buhari, on a football field. Mr. […]

President Goodluck Jonathan’s accreditation on Saturday for the presidential election was delayed as three card readers failed to capture his biometric details. Jonathan, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, who arrived at the Otazi playground polling centre in his home town, Otueke, Bayelsa State, with his wife, at exactly 9:22 am, could not be […]

The Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC) has announced the postponement of elections into the House of representatives in eleven federal constituencies in Jigawa State.  The postponement was announced by Jigawa State Resident Electoral Commissioner, Halliru Aliyu Tambawel on Friday night. The postponement was due to the short-fall of sensitive materials including ballot papers and results sheets […]

The All Progressives Congress (APC) on Friday evening announced that its agent in Port Harcourt, capital of Rivers State, Emma Deeyah, has been arrested. Deeyah, a former member of the House of Assembly and House of Representatives, was picked at the INEC office in Port Harcourt, said Lai Mohammed, the APC National Publicity Secretary. Mohammed […]

Senator Gbemisola Saraki, sister to former Governor Bukola Saraki and one of the last support for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kwara State, on Friday dumped the party to join her brother in the All Progressives Congress (APC). Gbemisola had been on loggerheads with Bukola Saraki over their political differences. She had also supported […]

Barely 15 hours to the presidential election in Nigeria, the country’s the Police has asked the Kaduna State governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mallam Nasir El-Rifai, and two others to appear before it for questioning. Apart from a letter, signed by the Deputy Commissioner of Police in charge of the CID, summoning […]

Nigerian soldiers confronting Islamic extremists, Boko Haram in the north-eastern part of the country, on Friday, announced their conquest of the extremists’ enclave in Gwoza.  The announced conquest is coming just one day to the Presidential Election. In February this year, the election had been shifted for six weeks, for security reasons. The Nigerian troops […]

  Dear Compatriots, 1.As we prepare to go to the polls tomorrow, I have come before you this morning to express my immense appreciation for the opportunity you gave me to lead this great nation of ours in the past four years.   2.I also wish to place on record, once again, my sincere gratitude […]

Many residents of Lagos had a sour taste of the activities of hoodlums who took over some parts of the popular Oshodi area of the state on Thursday morning. Most of those who fell victims were either on their way to work or business. The hoodlums, armed with dangerous weapons including guns, axes, matchetes and […]

Deputy Governor of Ondo State, Alhaji Ali Olanusi and his supporters on Thursday defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC). The defection is coming barely 48 hours to the presidential election in Nigeria. Olanusi’s Chief Press Secretary, Daisi Ajayi, confirmed this to journalists . Also Olanusi announced his defection […]

President Goodluck Jonathan Wednesday in Abuja reiterated his total commitment to ensuring peaceful, free, fair and credible elections in Nigeria on Saturday and with April.  Speaking to an audience with a delegation of the National Committee on Peaceful Elections led by former Head of State, Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar, Jonathan urged all political parties, their candidates […]

Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayo Fayose, has asked Nigerians to find out from former President Olusegun Obasanjo whether he is planning a coup or knows people planning to execute one going by his recent expression of fear that there could be a coup plot in the country. Speaking in Ado-Ekiti on Wednesday through his Chief […]