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Meet the Labour Party’s Lagos State Governorship Candidate, Mr Gbadebo Rhodes Vivour

Mr Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour is from a family of lawyers. He is the son of Barrister Olawale & Mrs Nkechi Rhodes-Vivour. Former justice of...

Aftermath of mayhem in Lagos, armed soldiers, armoured vehicles deployed

Aftermath of Monday morning mayhem in some parts of Lagos in reaction to the victory of Mr Peter Obi, an Igbo man and...

Tragedy as police shoot dead INEC staff in Delta

  Another trigger-happy policemen has shot and killed an INEC staff in a commercial bus conveying the staff and some youth corps members...

Breaking: Tinubu breaks silence on defeat by Peter Obi in Lagos, says you lose some, you win some

  Apparently feeling upbeat after losing Lagos State to Labour Party’s Peter Obi, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the Presidential Candidate of the All Progressives...

With resounding victory, Obi ends Tinubu’s dominance in Lagos

Lagos State, the political base and traditional stronghold of All Progressives Congress Presidential Candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has fallen irretrievably to his Labour...

One of Wike’s G-5 Governors, Ugwuanyi of Enugu meets his waterloo in Enugu North Senatorial seat poll

One of the political disciples of Rivers Gov. Nyesom Wike known as G-5 governors, Enugu State Gov. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi and the People’s Democratic...

Cross River Gov. Ayade and APC’s Senatorial Candidate beaten hollow, incumbent PDP’s Agom-Jarigbe wins

Cross River Gov. Ben Ayade and APC’s Senatorial Candidate has suffered a skunking in Saturday’s parliamentary poll in the state, Persecondnews reports. Ayade,...

Atiku defeats Tinubu in majority votes in Buhari’s home state, Katsina

The Presidential Candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has pipped his main rival, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu of the All...

Upset as Kano Gov. Ganduje’s son, Abba, loses House of Representatives seat

Mr Abba Ganduje, son of Gov. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje of Kano State was upset in Saturday’s House of Representatives poll in the state....

Breaking: DSS nabs Abia INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner

Operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) have reportedly arrested the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)...

As electoral violence rocks the country, the independent National Electoral Commission office in Takai Local Government Area of Kano State has been burnt...

INEC dares Nigerians, postpones collation of results again till Monday

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has for the second time in 12 hours postponed the collation of results earlier scheduled for Sunday...

Election: Burnaboy warns INEC against compromise as Adekunle Gold says performance disappointing

Amid fears and allegations that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) might tamper with the will of the people as election results trickle...

Just In: Anxiety, tension as INEC again postpones collation of results till 6pm

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has shifted the collation of the results of the 2023 Presidential Election until 6.00pm on Sunday fuelling...

Ogun Gov. Abiodun’s Iperu country home invaded by gunmen, snatched ballot box, disrupted polls

Ogun Governor Dapo Abiodun’s town was invaded by gunmen on Saturday as ballot boxes were destroyed and polls disrupted at a polling unit...

February 25 polls: APC National Chairman, Adamu, loses polling unit to Peter Obi

In a major upset, the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Sen. Abdullahi Adamu, on Saturday lost his polling unit to...