Obi opposes INEC, seeks physical inspection of election materials 70 CSOs kick, PDP rejects INEC’s bid to reconfigure BVAS machines Court summons INEC, Wike, others over suit to suspend Saturday’s guber polls in Rivers 10th National Assembly won’t be Tinubu’s rubber stamp, says Oshiomhole Shekarau absent as 98 Senators-elect receive Certificates of Return President-Elect, Asiwaju […]
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The Yoruba Afenifere Youth Organisation of Nigeria (YAYON), an umbrella body of youth organisatiions from the South West, has congratulated the President-Elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu over his victory in the February 25 presidential election. In a statement on Wednesday, the group said that: “We join our Afenifere leader worldwide; Pa Reuben Fasoranti to congratulate […]
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Says China achieved Millennium Development Goals ahead of time As Nigeria joins the rest of the world in celebrating women today, Madam Liang Huili, wife of the Chinese Ambassador to Nigeria, has admonished Nigerian women to leverage on girl-child education for socio-economic development. Huili, who spoke Tuesday in Abuja at a forum to highlight the […]
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The Independent National Electoral Commission has released the full list of members-elect of the 10th House of Representatives. National Assembly elections held last Saturday, February 25, 2023, alongside the presidential election. A new set of members, however, with returning familiar faces, will sit in the legislative arm of government making up the Red and Green […]
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All Progressives Congress (APC) Lagos West Leader, Rabiu Oluwa (left); Deputy Governor of Lagos State, Dr. Obafemi Hazmat; Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu; APC Lagos Chairman, Cornelius Ojelabi and Director-General of the Gubernatorial Campaign Council, Ganiyu Solomon, during the party’s Lagos West II senatorial rally at Ojo… yesterday. The All Progressives Congress (APC) has appealed to the […]
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The Nigerian equities market rebounded at the reopening of transactions, yesterday, as bargain hunting in MTN Nigeria and 15 stocks pushed market capitalisation by N41 billion. Specifically, at the close of transactions yesterday, the All Share Index (ASI) rose by 76.36 points, representing an increase of 0.14 per cent to close at 55,605.57 points while […]
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By Nkereuwem Anana Citizens are in diaspora when they live outside their country. Currently the laws in Nigeria do not provide for Nigerian citizens living abroad to participate in an election with regards to voting from where they are. This singular act has thrown Nigeria out and disqualifies her from the league of modern democracies. […]
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By Hope O’Rukevbe Eghagha Bishak: The Presidential elections have come and gone. We now have a winner. Thank God the heavens did not fall! Orezime: Thank God that the elections held in the first place. Emeka: The presidential elections have come, my fellow compatriots, but not gone! Are some of the contestants not going to […]
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Fight broke out between voter and electoral official in Lugbe, Abuja Pockets of violence, threats and blatant malfeasances recorded at last week’s presidential election in Nigeria are not only condemnable, they show clearly that impunity against elections in the country cannot be wished away. The tendency for miscreants and political thugs to violate elections conduct […]
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Two days before the governorship and state house of assembly elections, a former national legal adviser of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) David Iorhemba has resigned from the party. Iorhemba, a former speaker, Benue State House of Assembly who also served as a deputy national secretary of the party at various times hails from Guma, […]
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