The Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC) has extended voting in the presidential and National Assembly Elections in Cross River State to Sunday, 26 February. This was disclosed in a statement signed by Anthonia Nwobi, head of department, voter education and publicity, on behalf of Gabriel Yomere, the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) for Cross River. According…
The Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in Kwara State, Attahiru Madami, says the Tsaragi Polling Unit 10 result would be cancelled following a case of ballot box snatching by hoodlums on Saturday. Tsaragi is in the Edu Local Government Area of Kwara State. Mr Madami told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday that the…
The National Chairman of the Labour Party (LP), Julius Abure, has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to cancel elections in Obio/Akpor, Khana, Eleme, Obigbo, and Rumukoro local government areas in Rivers State. Mr Abure made the call in a statement he issued on Sunday in Abuja. According to him, the leadership of the…
The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu has won all 16 local government areas (LGAs) in Ekiti State. In the result announced by the Ekiti State Returning Officer for INEC, Prof Akeem Lasisi, Tinubu polled 201,494 to beat his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)’s rival, Atiku Abubakar who scored 89,554.Third in the…
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, has arrested nine persons for vote buying in Osun, Ondo, Borno, Akwa Ibom and Sokoto States during the Presidential and National Assembly Elections on Saturday. According to a statement by the Commission’s spokesperson, Mrs Azuka Ogugua on Saturday, four vote buyers were arrested by the…
Labour Party, LP, governorship candidate in Lagos State, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour has condemned “the massive violence” unleashed on the party’s supporters on Saturday. The flagbearer pointed out the attacks in different locations in the state, especially polling units where Peter Obi was in the lead. Gbadebo alleged that the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, orchestrated the…
Suspected political thugs on Saturday attacked multiple polling units within the volatile Oshodi area of Lagos State. Voting in the presidential and National Assembly polls was going on at most of the locations when the assailants invaded. A video of the incident at Ogun Oloko Street near Oja Mafoluku in Oshodi and another at PU…
As Nigeria decides its next president, the Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi has won some polling units in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. Trust News sorting and counting commenced in the nation’s capital at about 2:30 pm. At Polling Unit 014, Wuse Zone 6/Wuse III Primary School, about 490 voters were registered but only…
The All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, won Saturday’s presidential election in the Baru 003, Baba Tone, Sarki Yara “A” Ward of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd). Tinubu through his party, APC, polled 215 votes to beat other major contestants, namely Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party who polled 51 votes,…
