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Wave of murders after presidential elections forces Catholic diocese staff to evacuate Benue State
Dozens of people reportedly were killed in post-election attacks on villages in Benue State Wednesday, according to a diocesan official. “We keep wondering...
Feb. 25 polls: INEC Chairman vows to punish officials involved in electoral malpractice
Eight days after the alleged flawed polls of February 25, the Chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu has finally...
Buhari off to Qatar for 5th UN conference on Least Developed Countries
Ahead of the 5th United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries (LCDs) on March 5, President Muhammadu Buhari will on Saturday depart...
Disputed Feb. 25 presidential poll: PDP, LP get Appeal Court’s nod to inspect election materials
After instituting a suit against INEC’s declaration of APC’s Bola Tinubu as President-elect, the Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja on Friday granted...
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...
