Despite the preliminary tension and security threats, Anambra State failed to explode on Saturday. The much-awaited gubernatorial poll was largely peaceful except for some pockets of incidences. A total of 18 parties took part in the election. However, it ended up a three-horse race, narrowed down to Prof Chukwuma Soludo of the All Progressive Grand…
The 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory generated N849.123bn as Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) in 2021 compared to N612.87bn in 2020. A report by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) yesterday disclosed that N398 billion was generated in the first quarter of 2021 and N450bn in the second quarter, making a positive growth of…
Former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria and candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, Prof Chukwuma Soludo, has dedicated his victory in the 2021 Anambra Governorship Election to three policemen killed when he was attacked by gunmen in April 2021 during a town hall meeting in his hometown in Isuofia in the Aguata…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared Chukwuma Soludo of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) the winner of the November 6 governorship election in Anambra State. Mr Soludo polled a total of112,229 votes to defeat his closest rival, Valentine Ozigbo of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who scored 53, 807 to emerge second….
The 2019 governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress in Imo State, Uche Nwosu, on Tuesday, said that the ruling party was the cause of its poor outing in the Anambra State governorship election which was held on Saturday. Nwosu said that the party’s woeful outing in the Anambra State governorship election which saw it…
Some of the ad-hoc officials deployed for the ongoing supplementary election in Ihaiala Local Government Area of Anambra State have stayed away from their polling units over security concerns. Elections did not hold in Ihiala on Saturday because of insecurity. While declaring the exercise inconclusive, Professor Comfort Obi, the returning officer, said the Independent National…
Setonji Koshoedo, Deputy National Secretary-elect of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Sunday said the 21-storey building that collapsed on Gerrard Road, Ikoyi last week was a result of negligence on the part of Lagos State Government. The yet to be completed skyscraper owned by Fourscore Heights Limited collapsed on November 1, trapping over 50…
All can not be said to be well with embattled Nollywood comedian James Omiyinka popularly known as Baba Ijesha.Apart from the uncertainty that surrounded his case as he currently fight the battle of his life vi’s a vi’s his career at the special court in Ikeja High Court .A situation that put him at suicidal…
public commentator, Alhaji Ibrahim Abubakar has blamed the lingering banditry activities and uncontrollable Almjeri system in the state on lack of education and proper upbringings of children by parents and guardians. The commentator stated that the children did not start these dastard acts from their mothers’ wombs or even after they were born but their…
