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INEC has refuted a story published on in Reuters, quoting National Commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Amina Zakari, as saying that the 2015 general elections may be delayed if the number of Permanent Voter Cards collected by voters is too low. INEC discredited the story in a letter it wrote to the […]

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, on Tuesday appealed to all residents of the state who have registered but who have not collected their Permanent Voters Card to proceed to their polling units from Wednesday by 8.30am to start collecting their PVCs. The Governor who gave an update to State House Correspondents at Lagos House, […]

The forensic report submitted to the federal government by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) on Monday has revealed huge financial inconsistencies on the parts of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and its subsidiary, the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (NPDC). The corporations have thus been directed to refund $1.48bn to the federation account, a brief on the report […]

Governor of Lagos State, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, and former Vice President of Nigeria, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, on Monday expressed shock and grief at the passage of billionaire businessman and Asoju Oba of Lagos, Chief Molade Okoya-Thomas, describing him as an epitome of humaneness and dedication to service. Atiku, on his part said the death of […]

President President Goodluck Jonathan narrowly escaped death on Monday after a car bomb exploded a few minutes after he left a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) campaign rally at a stadium in Gombe. Witnesses report that the explosion occurred about 200 meters away from the stadium, killing and injuring an unascertained number of people instantly.. An […]

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has extended the deadline for collection of Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) to Sunday, 8th February 2015. This supersedes the earlier deadline of Saturday, 31st January 2015, and is intended to give registered voters yet to collect their PVCs the opportunity to do so in readiness for the February 2015 […]

The Rivers State Governor Rt Hon Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi emerged the overall winner in the best performing Nigerian governors poll organised by Premiumratings.com. The poll which ran across various online fora, social network platforms as well as the premiumratings site lasted for one month and saw several participants within and across Nigeria. The poll was […]

Social media sites went abuzz Friday following some tweets by former Minister of State for Defence, Musliu Obanikoro, that the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Muhammadu Buhari, was pelted with stones in Lagos where he, with the APC team, came to campaign. Obanikoro also condemned the attack against Buhari thus giving bloggers […]

In almost a rate proportional to the one in which Nigeria is preparing to hold its general elections in February, Boko Haram is expanding its six-year reign of terror aimed at imposing its strict version of Sharia on the north eastern region of the country and its neighbours, Chad and Cameroon. So far, a summation […]

Muhammadu Buhari, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), will not be featuring in the presidential debate organised by the Broadcast Organisation of Nigeria (BON). According Garba Shehu, directorate of media and publicity of the APC presidential campaign organisation, the boycott is due to the “unhidden bias and campaign of calumny by some […]

A day after President Goodluck Jonathan, Senate President David Mark and Ahmadu Ali, the head of the Jonathan Campaign Organisation, slammed former Minister of Information, Labaran Maku, for being a liar and an ingrate because he dumped the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Maku has replied Mark and Ali, saying they have become scared of his […]

Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Attahiru Jega, has reassured Nigerians that challenges experienced, especially in the distribution of Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) will not prevent the Commission from delivering free, fair and credible elections next month.  Professor Jega, gave the assurance at a meeting with leaders of Political Parties, at the […]