There was relative calm in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital and other places, where the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), yesterday, conducted the rescheduled presidential, Senate and House of Representatives elections in 141 polling units. INEC Chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, had postponed elections in the 141 polling units in Yenagoa, over disruption of electoral processes in […]
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An Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) official uses a Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) to accredit a voter at Kwankwaso ward, Malamai in Kano on February 25, 2023, during Nigeria’s presidential and general election. (Photo by Kola Sulaimon / AFP) YIAGA Africa said the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) deployed in Saturday’s presidential and National […]
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Collation resumes tomorrow The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, has won Ekiti State with 201,494 defeating his closest rival Alhaji Abubakar Atiku of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, who scored 89, 554. The Collation Officer for the just concluded Presidential election in Ekiti, Prof. Akeem Olawale Lasisi, who is the […]
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Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu (left); INEC Commissioners, Festus Okoye, a lawyer, and Prof. Kunle Ajayi, at media briefing on 2023 General Elections in Abuja…yesterday Apologises to Nigerians, says results safe The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said technical challenges with its system were responsible for the delay in uploading […]
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The Independent National Electoral Commission has commenced the upload of polling unit results of the 2023 presidential results on its website. As of 11:35pm on Saturday, 4,102 polling unit results, out of the 176,846, had been uploaded. A civil society group, Yiaga Africa, had earlier expressed concern over the failure of INEC to upload results […]
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A human rights organisation, Centre for Transparency Advocacy on Sunday slammed President Muhammadu Buhari for publicly displaying his ballot paper after voting in Daura, during the presidential and National Assembly elections. While describing the action as vote selling and a violation of the Electoral Act, the organisation said the President was clearly canvassing for votes […]
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The video footage shows a fight outside the school (Image: Twitter) A few days ago, precisely February 6, the world was shocked by the brutal attack on a black girl who is a student at Thomas Knyvett School in Ashford, Surrey, United Kingdom. The teenage girl, repeatedly punched and kicked in the head, was injured […]
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A former Commissioner for Information and Orientation in Ondo State, Hon Donald Ojogo, has won the Ilaje / Ese-Odo Federal Constituency seat in the House of Representatives. He defeated the incumbent Hon Kolade Akinjo, who was seeking a third term in the National Assembly. Ojogo garnered 26, 306 votes while Akinjo had 22, 390. The […]
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Residents in Kaduna State on Sunday attributed the low turnout of voters in the ongoing general elections to cash crunch occasioned by the new Naira policy. Some of the residents who spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), said they were anxious to travel to enable them to exercise their franchise. They, however, added […]
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There was massive voter turnout in the rescheduled Presidential and National Assembly elections in Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the election was shifted from Saturday to Sunday following shortage of ballot papers which sparked off a protest. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) subsequently postponed the […]
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