International observers with INEC chairman, Prof Mahmood Yakubu. Former South African President, Thabo Mbeki (middle) while Yakubu is third right • Go out and vote without fear, army, police DSS assures • IPOB threat is empty, military, police insist • I entertain no fear that INEC is fully ready, says Olurode • Don’t move with […]
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INEC Chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, during a media briefing on Friday in Abuja. Credit: Channels TV Chukwu, the assassinated Labour Party’s Enugu East senatorial candidate The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has postponed the election in Enugu East Senatorial District by 16 days. Its Chairman, Prof Mahmood Yakubu announced this at a media briefing on Friday […]
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National Business and Technical Examinations Board (NABTEB), yesterday, released results of the 2022 Ordinary-Level/Craft Certificate examinations and Advanced-Level/Mastercraft examinations for private candidates held nationwide. Registrar and Chief Executive of NABTEB, Prof. Ifeoma Isiugo-Abanihe, who disclosed this at a press conference in Benin, said the board conducted the examinations nationwide from Monday November 7 to Friday […]
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Governor Ademola Adeleke of Osun State has described tomorrow’s general elections as a milestone in the nation’s democratic development. He said this in a statement signed by his spokesperson, Malam Olawale Rasheed, on Friday in Osogbo. Urging every eligible citizen to actively participate in the exercise which he said would go a long way in […]
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Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has directed all its campaign units, support groups and supporters of its candidates to end all forms of campaign. The party gave the directive in a statement issued in Abuja by its National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba. Ologunagba said that in line with the provisions of the Electoral Act 2022, all […]
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The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), says the average price of 5kg of cooking gas increased from N4,565.56 recorded in December 2022 to N4,588.75 in January 2023. This is contained in the Bureau’s “Cooking Gas Price Watch’’ for January 2023 released on Friday in Abuja. The report said the January 2023 price represented a 0.51 […]
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Former President Goodluck Jonathan has called for peaceful polls even as he urged voters to make the best use of their power of choice in the elections. Nigerians of voting age will go to poll on Saturday 25 February to elect a new president and members of the national assembly. The incumbent President, Muhammadu Buhari, […]
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Josephine Okei-Odumakin is is the president of the pressure group, Campaign for Democracy and the founder of the Women Arise for Change Initiative. She shares her thoughts on the general election, the naira crisis, and the way forward to a prosperous Nigeria, among others, with Dirisu Yakubu. What, in your opinion, is the biggest thing […]
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Finnish police on Thursday arrested a popular pro-Biafra agitator, Simon Ekpa. Ekpa, a self-acclaimed disciple of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, had repeatedly ordered South-East residents to observe a sit-at-home and asked them to boycott Saturday’s polls. A Finland news outlet, Helsingin Sanomat, noted that the police escorted him out […]
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The military, police and the Department of State Services have begun massive raids on the hideouts of hoodlums as a pre-emptive measure to curb violence during Saturday’s general election. As part of the crackdown, no fewer than 63 suspected thugs were arrested in Kano on Thursday after hoodlums attacked the New Nigeria Peoples Party supporters. […]
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