The Katsina State Police Command has confirmed the killing of a police officer and abduction of three INEC ad-hoc staff during the governorship and state assembly election in the state. The police also announced the killing of a civil defence officer in a separate attack, while on election duty. The Command’s Public Relations Officer, Gambo […]
Continue Reading
A policeman has shot dead an election observer in Enugu State on Saturday. The incident happened in Umuida community, Enugu Ezike, Igbo-Eze North Local Government Area of the state, some metres away from the residence of Ayogu Eze, the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state. He was said to have […]
Continue Reading
The Independent National Electoral Commission, on Saturday, postponed the state House of Assembly election across Mopamuro Local Government Area of Kogi state. The Electoral Officer, Mopamuro LGA, Opanachi Ojodale, told the News Agency of Nigeria, at the INEC office in Mopa, that the election was postponed to Sunday, March 10, due to wrong ballot papers […]
Continue Reading
All electoral materials for Mbalom ward in Gwer East Local Government Area of Benue, were in the early hours of Saturday, burnt by armed hoodlums. According to a witness, the hoodlums on arrival fired shots in the air before setting on fire the RCM Primary School Aya, housing the materials. Mrs Ngunan Yongo, the Electoral […]
Continue Reading
After months of internal party primaries and intense campaign across the nooks and crannies of various states by political parties, the stage is set as Nigeria’s governorship election holds today (Saturday). The governorship election, which takes place simultaneously with the state House of Assembly elections, holds a week after its initial scheduled date of March […]
Continue Reading
The national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Uche Secondus, says Nigeria is currently experiencing full blown dictatorship. Secondus stataed that the electoral umpire, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has never been as compromised as it was in the just concluded presidential election. Speaking at the PDP expanded national caucus meeting in Abuja […]
Continue Reading
Billionaire businessman and president of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, says there are better days ahead for the business community in Nigeria, despite the elections ongoing in the country. The business mogul said there is a lot happening in Nigeria, and elections did not deter his companies from investing in the country. “I think from the […]
Continue Reading
Nigeria’s main opposition party, PDP, has rejected the yet to be concluded result of the presidential election. The PDP, in a statement by its national chairman, Uche Secondus, said the results being announced do not tally with what the party has collated across the country. “Firstly, I want to categorically state that our collation centers […]
Continue Reading
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) won at polling unit–code 33, unit 2, Victoria Garden City (VGC), Lagos, where Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo cast his ballot. For the presidential election, the PDP polled 425 votes while the APC had 229. In the senatorial election, the PDP had 414 votes while the APC had 261. For the house of representatives […]
Continue Reading
The Independent National Electoral Commission INEC has announced the postponement of the elections in some parts of Lagos, Rivers and Anambra States following disruption of the exercise due to violence. Specifically, INEC said elections in Akuku Toru and Bonny local government areas of Rivers state as well as some parts of Anambra and Lagos would […]
Continue Reading