A 70-year-old man named Apollos Danlami has been killed following a communal clash that occurred over the coronation of a hamlet head in Sang village of Bogoro Local Government Area of Bauchi State on Saturday. 64 houses, three motorcycles and properties worth millions of naira were set ablaze. The Bauchi State Police Command in a…
The Department of State Services has commenced an investigation into the attack unleashed on one of its operatives during the controversial governorship election re-run in Adamawa State. In a video that has gone viral, an official of the DSS is seen being manhandled by some political thugs in Yola. Reacting to the ugly development, the…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has told the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) that the Adamawa people won’t avail themselves to be ‘cheated three times in a row’. Recall INEC had suspended the process after the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) declared the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Aisha…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has asked the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to immediately resume collation of Adamawa governorship election. INEC had suspended the process after the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) declared the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Aisha Binani as winner of the election. Atiku in…
Nurses in Britain are prepared to strike until Christmas if they cannot reach a deal with the government on pay, the leader of the country’s main nursing union said on Sunday. Members of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) would strike at the end of April and the beginning of May before holding a ballot…
INEC on Sunday declared Mr Afam Ogene, candidate of Labour Party (LP), winner of Saturday’s Ogbaru federal constituency supplementary election in Anambra. With his victory, Ogene unseated the three-term incumbent House of Representatives member for the constituency, Mr Chukwuma Onyema of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Announcing the results at Atani, headquarters of Ogbaru Local…
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…
