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Breaking: INEC finally declares APC’s Bola Tinubu winner of Feb. 25 Presidential poll

Four days after the polls, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) was on Wednesday morning declared the winner of the...

Breaking: PDP, LP, ADC, demand cancellation of February 25 elections, describing it as flawed

Three parties — the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Labour Party (LP) and the African Democratic Congress (ADC) have called for the Independent National...

Presidential poll results: Foreign observers, Obasanjo, Abdulsalami, Kukah query election process 

...probe grievances of Nigerians against the polls -- the National Peace Committee 

Just in: Appeal Court judge slumps, dies in office

A Justice of the Court of Appeal, Justice Ayobode Lokulo-Sodipe, has slumped and died in his chambers in Akure, Persecondnews reports. Lokulo-Sodipe from...

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...

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....

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...

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...

Results just coming in from the University of Ibadan, Oyo State, poling units and Lekki, Lagos

Results just coming in from the University of Ibadan, Oyo State, poling units and Lekki, Lagos APC — 520 PDP — 179 LP...