Nigeria’s president-elect, Bola Tinubu, has been named in Time Magazine’s list of 100 most influential people for 2023. Time Magazine’s annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world accords recognition to people “for changing the world, regardless of the consequences of their actions”. “Influence is hard to measure, and what we look […]
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The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), at the just concluded presidential election, Peter Obi, has claimed that he is under pressure to leave Nigeria. In a statement released on Wednesday night, Obi slammed the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC and some government agencies for using propaganda. The former Anambra State Governor also insisted […]
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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared Siminialayi Fubara, the candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the winner of Rivers State governorship election held on Saturday 18 March. Fubara scored a total of 302,614 votes to defeat his closest challenger, Tonye Cole, the candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC), who scored 95,274 votes, according […]
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The leadership of the Labour Party (LP) has the described Nigeria’s electoral process as a rape of democracy in areas where voter intimidation took place. The governorship and state houses of assembly elections took place across the country on Saturday. Julius Abure, LP national chairperson, in a statement on Saturday, also asked INEC to conduct […]
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The Nigeria Police Force (NPF) has warned anybody who wants to disrupt the governorship and state assembly elections on Saturday. There is heightened tension ahead of the elections, with political parties and their supporters, fuelling fears of election-day violence. Police commands across different states have however assured Nigerians of adequate security as they troop out to […]
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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has urged political parties to prevail on their supporters to refrain from acts of violence during the governorship and state assembly polls. Mahmood Yakubu, INEC chairman, spoke on Tuesday during a meeting of the inter-agency consultative committee on election security. The INEC chairman thanked security agencies for the professionalism […]
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Mr. Chukwudi Ogbonna, the Accord Party (AP) candidate for Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni state constituency for Rivers state assembly, has been abducted by gunmen. The abduction was confirmed on Tuesday by Ifeaka Nwakiri, a relative of the politician. It is understood that Ogbonna was kidnapped on Monday at Rumuigbo, near Port Harcourt, the Rivers state capital. Nwakiri said the abduction […]
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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has said that it will appeal the Thursday’s ruling by the Federal High Court, Abuja, ordering it to allow the use of Temporary Voter Cards (TVC) in the March 18 governorship and state houses of assembly elections. Mr. Rotimi Lawrence Oyekanmi, the Chief Press Secretary to INEC Chairman, Prof. […]
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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has released an official statement, shifting the conduct of the governorship and houses of assembly elections from March 11 to March 18. On Wednesday, the court of appeal refused an application by Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), to restrain INEC from reconfiguring the bimodal voter […]
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The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has inaugurated the legal team to challenge the outcome of the February 25 presidential election. The former vice-president of Nigeria briefed the team at his campaign headquarters in Abuja on Wednesday. He mandated them to “establish the claim of illegality in the February […]
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