President Bola Tinubu has advised the candidates defeated in the 2024 Ondo State governorship election to seek legal redress if dissatisfied with the outcome of the polls. Earlier, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared Lucky Aiyedatiwa, the candidate for the All Progressives Congress (APC), the winner of the election held across 3,933 polling units … Read more
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has raised objections to the results from Idanre Local Government Area of Ondo State in the ongoing governorship elections, alleging the use of violence against its party agents during voting and the snatching of ballot boxes. Laniyi Ogundiji, the party’s state collation agent for the 2024 governorship election, made this … Read more
A group of political thugs reportedly breached the peace in Idanre community, headquarters of Idanre Local Government Area of Ondo State on Wednesday, 72 hours to the Ondo State governorship election slated for Saturday. The attack which was in the early hours of Wednesday, was unleashed on some members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) … Read more
The newly appointed Minister of State for Housing and Urban Development, Yusuf Abdullahi, has pledged to deliver Kano State to the All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2027. Mr Abdullahi, who stated this while briefing newsmen shortly after arriving in Kano on Sunday, also pledged his dedication to advancing President Bola Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda. He … Read more
False sexual allegations as weapon of vitimisation On Monday, we published an investigative report on the travail of Inih Ebong, a former lecturer at the University of Uyo, who was fired by the university over false sexual harassment allegations. Despite several legal victories against the institution, the university has refused to reinstate the lecturer and … Read more
In his inaugural speech, Governor Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers State promised to uphold the Nigerian Constitution and never to disappoint the people of the oil-rich state. “The people have voted for us with much hope and expectation,” Mr Fubara said before the large crowd at the Yakubu Gowon Stadium, Port Harcourt, on 29 May 2023. … Read more
Controversy has continued to trail the outcome of the recent local elections in Akwa Ibom State. The man regarded as the political leader of Essien Udim Local Government Area in the state has insisted that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and not the All Progressives Congress (APC), won the chairmanship election in the council area. … Read more
The FCT minister, Nyesom Wike said Rivers State Governor Siminalayi Fubara is the architect of violence that rocked the state on Monday, a day after new chairpersons of local government areas in the state were inaugurated. Some hoodlums, who were dissatisfied with the conduct of the election, set ablaze Ikwerre, Emohua, and Eleme local government … Read more
A chieftain of the All Progressives Party (APC) in Akwa Ibom State has thanked Governor Umo Eno of Akwa Ibom State for “saving” the Senate President Godswill Akpabio from “a huge political embarrassment” in the just concluded local elections in the state. According to the results released on Sunday by the Chairperson of the Akwa … Read more
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State are holding a joint protest in Port Harcourt after Governor Siminalayi Fubara declared Thursday (today) and Friday as public holidays ahead of Saturday’s local government election in the state. A Federal High Court in Abuja barred Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission … Read more
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