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Naira redesign: Kaduna Gov. el-Rufai hails Supreme Court judgment, says policy must go

“The policy must go because the Supreme Court has now decided that it was unlawfully conceived and it was unlawfully implemented"

Just in: N200, N500, N1,000 notes to remain in circulation till December 31, 2023, Nigeria’s Supreme Court orders

The Supreme Court on Friday nullified the Federal Government’s Naira redesign policy, declaring it as an affront to the 1999 Constitution. It ruled...

February 25 presidential poll largely flawed, will challenge it in court, vows Atiku

Like the Labour Party, the Presidential Candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has written off the February 25 poll, describing...

I won this election and I will prove it, vows to approach court to reclaim mandate — Peter Obi

“We won the election and we will prove it, and reclaim our mandate”, Peter Obi the Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party, said...

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...