Category: Nigeria

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has demanded the immediate release of one of the spokespersons of its Presidential Campaign Council, Alhaji Buba Galadima. The national chairman of the PDP, Prince Uche Secondus, in a statement he personally signed on Sunday, said Galadima was Sunday evening, arrested by operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS). […]

 National Chairman, People’s Alternative Front (PAF), Mr Femi Falana (SAN) has asked the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to take over the prosecution of the electoral offenders arising from the 2019 elections. In a letter dated February 22 and addressed to INEC Chairman, Prof Mahmoud Yakubu, Falana said that this has become necessary to prevent official […]

…alleges plots to alter election results The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has insisted on the official release of results already delivered at the various polling units for its presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar. A statement on Sunday night by the PDP spokesman, Kola Ologbondiyan, cautioned that Nigerians will not accept any figures except what was […]

Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, has asked security agencies to investigate violent incidents that sought to mar Saturday’s lections.  He made this call in his address on Sunday, February 24. Mahmood said that the Commission has taken an in-depth analysis of the situation of things around the nation, with […]

Yakubu and top officials of the commission at the opening Nigeria’s electoral umpire, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, on Sunday formally opened its collation centre in Abuja for the presidential election conducted on Saturday. The commission’s Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, who performed the ceremony, said with the official opening of the centre, results of the election would start […]

The Federal Government has not done, or shown that it has done, enough to free the girl On February 19, the world agonised over the fact that Leah Sharibu, the Nigerian symbol of girl child abduction from schools had spent 365 days in captivity. Few days to the anniversary, her traumatised mother and other members […]

By Festus Eriye After the false start of February 16, Nigerians finally went to the polls yesterday to pick the man who would lead them for the next four years. As you read this, emerging trends would be pointing to the direction they have elected to go. This election is likely to impact the political […]

Nigeria on Sunday awaited results from its presidential election as civil society groups warned that disorganisation and violence may have undermined the polls. Results from 120,000 polling stations in 36 states where voting held Saturday were expected to trickle in to the capital Abuja after being collated at the state and local levels. The chairman […]

Candidate of Nigeria’s leading opposition party in Saturday’s presidential election, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has said that with the results collated so far, he is sure of winning. He stated this on Sunday morning in a statement by his campaign spokesperson, Phrank Shaibu. He said: “With strong […]

Trained staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) are blocked from work as their names are missing in the list at a Regional Area Centre less than three hours before scheduled opening voting time for the presidential and parliamentary elections in Port Harcourt, southern Nigeria, on February 23, 2019. Nigerians began voting for a […]