Supporters of Ogun Peoples Democratic Party governorship candidate protesting at the office of the Independent National Electoral Commission over the poll result. Photo: Daud Olatunji Supporters of Ogun PDP protest Candidates who lost Saturday’s governorship election and their supporters on Tuesday protested the outcome of the poll and vowed to challenge the results in court. […]
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Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo, has reacted to the petition filed by the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, calling for the annulment of the February 25 Presidential Election won by the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu. Obi had previously challenged the outcome of the […]
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Four presidential candidates on Tuesday approached the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal in Abuja with separate petitions, seeking the nullification of the declaration of Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress as the winner of the February 25 presidential poll. The petitioners, seeking nullification of Tinubu’s emergence as President-elect as Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic […]
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Anambra State Governor, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, has congratulated the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, all other winners in the February 25 and March 18 elections as well as Nigerians in general on the successful polls. In a statement he personally signed on Tuesday, Soludo also hailed the Nigerians youths, describing them as the heroes of the […]
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Constitution amendment bill on power to summon President and governors has suffered major setback, following President Muhammadu Buhari’s withholding of assent. Refusal of presidential assent to the alteration and 18 others became a source of concern to President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, yesterday. Buhari had, last Friday, assented to 16 of the 35 alteration […]
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A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has dismissed an application filed by the suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari and three others asking that the charge against them be quashed. Kyari and others had argued that the charge against them was premature, insisting that the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) ought to […]
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In this file photo taken on May 12, 2022 The price of fruit and vegetables in pounds sterling is displayed on a trader’s market stall in London. – British annual inflation unexpectedly accelerated in February despite central bank efforts to tame a growing cost-of-living crisis, official data showed on March 22, 2023. “Food and non-alcoholic […]
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Urge aggrieved parties, candidates in 2023 polls to seek judicial redress, avoid sponsoring Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Abdulrasheed Bawa, may be in for fresh trouble as over 250 Constitutional and Human Rights lawyers have called on the National Judicial Council to direct all courts in Nigeria not to entertain cases brought […]
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The Southern Women’s Forum (SWF), a regional and non-partisan platform promoting and advancing the cause of political participation of women in Southern Nigeria, has lamented the decline in women’s political representation, just as it condemned the electoral violence and voter suppression that characterized the 2023 general elections across the country. In a statement yesterday by […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari voting during the election The United States has called on the Federal Government to bring to justice everyone that was involved in violence, including intimidation of voters and suppression of voting during the last election. It also said it was considering taking all available actions, including additional visa restrictions, on individuals believed […]
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