The violent build up to the general elections in Kwara State was doused, yesterday, by massive turnout of voters, who voted peacefully and with high level of decorum though under watertight security. Reports across the 16 Local Government Areas of the state showed that voters having an overt sense of security of lives and property, […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), in Akwa Ibom state, Mr Mike Igini said the commission will cancel polls in units where ballot boxes were snatched in the state. Igini said this while addressing newsmen on the conduct of the Presidential and National Assembly elections in Akwa Ibom on Saturday. “We are […]
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Nigeria Army said it has arrested about 15 armed men suspected to be political thugs in Ikebiri 1 in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State. The army said the thugs had planned to disrupt the presidential and national assembly elections in the Southern Ijaw Local Government Area in the state. A spokesman to […]
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APC National Leader, Senator Bola Tinubu, was at Polling Unit 047, Ward 3, Ikeja, to cast his vote for the Presidential and National Assembly elections – He said after casting his vote that his party’s chances of winning the election is very high. However, he said he would accept the people’s verdict if his party […]
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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has charged President Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress (APC) to stop whining over their “rejection” in the presidential election and quietly accept the will of the people. The party said the APC and agents of the Buhari Presidency, were bewildered by defeat and thus plotting to discredit the […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress won the polling unit where Ekiti State governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi voted. He polled 182 while Alhaji Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party polled five votes at the Ojilolo ward unit 009, Isan Ekiti on Saturday. Fayemi expressed satisfaction with the conduct of the presidential and National Assembly […]
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Ninety-eight workers have died and at least 200 others have been hospitalised in northeastern India after drinking toxic liquor, officials said on Saturday, in the latest case of alcohol poisoning in the country. The deaths in Assam state came less than two weeks after tainted liquor killed about 100 people in the northern states of […]
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The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, on Saturday defeated President Muhammadu Buhari in one of the two polling units located inside the Presidential Villa, Abuja. There are two polling units in the seat of power. For PU 022, Atiku polled 525 against Buhari’s 465. For the senatorial election, PDP won […]
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