The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC has declared the New Nigeria People’s Party, NNPP candidates as winners of two more state assembly seats in Kano State. The party won in Garko and Wudil Constituencies supplementary election conducted on 15th April, 2023. The INEC Returning Officer for the election in Wudil, Prof. Surajo Mahmud Umar, declared…
The Independent National Electoral Commission INEC has declared as null and void, the purported declaration of the All Progressives Congress APC Governorship Candidate in Adamawa state, Aisha Dahiru Binani by the state Resident Electoral Commissioner REC as duly elected. According to the commission, the REC has no such powers as only the Returning Officer for…
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has voided the declaration of Senator Aisha Dahiru, popularly known as Binani, as the winner of the governorship election in Adamawa State. The electoral body also summoned the Resident Electoral Commissioner for the state, Barrister Hudu Yunusa over the controversial declaration. INEC made the declaration on Twitter in a…
The returning officer for the Sokoto South senatorial supplementàry polls Professor Abubakar Abdullahi Bagudo has declared Aminu Waziri Tambuwal as duly elected after scoring 100,860 votes to defeat his close rival Senàtor Ibrahim Abdullahi Danbaba who scored 97,884 votes. It could be recalled that no clear winner emerged in the March 18 National Assembly Elections…
Japan’s army found wreckage and five bodies Sunday during a deep-sea search for crew on board a helicopter that disappeared from radar earlier this month, an army spokesman said. The aircraft with 10 people on board had been on a reconnaissance mission when it went missing on April 6, in what the Ground Self-Defense Force…
The newly appointed Chancellor of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, Oyo State, His Royal Majesty Ohna Sergeant Chidi Awuse, has promised to deploy all resources in his arsenal to ensure further enhancement of LAUTECH’s recorded successes. The new Chancellor spoke in his palace at Emohua during a visit by a delegation from LAUTECH,…
Bandits stormed Runji village in Zango Kataf local government area of Kaduna state and killed no fewer than 20 people during the attack. A resident of the area who pleaded for anonymity in an interview with newsmen disclosed that the hoodlums stormed the village around 9 pm on Saturday night when the villagers were indoors….
The Governor of Sokoto State, Aminu Tambuwal, was on Sunday morning declared the Senator-elect for Sokoto South Senatorial district. Tambuwal, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) defeated the current serving Senator Danbaba Dambuwa, with a total margin of 4,976. Announcing the results at about 11:55am on Sunday at the INEC office in Bodinga…
By Reno Omokri Nigerians in Nigeria and abroad take delight in running down Nigeria before foreigners. We have very little sense of national pride. In fact, we delight in telling others the worst about Nigeria. And often, what we talk about is an exaggeration. I do not understand why we do this. Telling foreigners negative…
: The Independent National Electoral Commission has invited the Adamawa Resident Electoral Commissioner, Barrister Hudu Yunusa, over the declaration of the election held Saturday. The commission disclosed this on Sunday via its Twitter handle. It noted that the process has clearly not been concluded before he made the announcement. “The attention of the Commission has…
