•Late Raphael Dwamena Former Ghana striker Raphael Dwamena died yesterday after suffering a heart attack during an Albanian league match between KF Egnatia and FK Partizani, according to a statement by the Albanian football federation. “Paramedics on the pitch rushed him to hospital, where he died at the age of 28,” said the federation. Dwamen...
•Bag of Naira notes The Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC) has apprehended an official of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) during the Imo State governorship election, in possession of a substantial amount of money. The INEC staff, whose name was not disclosed, was apprehended at Polling Unit 005, Township Prima...
The Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD) has condemned pockets of violence and vote trading that characterised the Bayelsa, Kogi and Imo States governorship elections. A member of the CDD Election Analysis Centre, Dr Jack Jackson, at a press briefing today in Abuja, also bemoaned the late arrival of sensitive materials by the Independent...
•Eradiri and Diri The incumbent governor, Douye Diri of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has emerged victorious at the polling units of his main rival, Udengs Eradiri of the Labour Party (LP). Diri, who is seeking re-election, garnered 130 votes, while Eradiri polled a mere eight votes in unit 05, Ward 10, Yenagoa local government […...
Labour Party governorship candidate, Udengs Eradiri has alleged that his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) counterpart and incumbent governor, Douye Diri is inducing voters with money. Eradiri spoke after casting his vote in Ward 10, Unit 5, Ekpetiama, Yenagoa, Bayelsa state today Saturday, November 11. The former president of the Ijaw Youths Cou...
A fight has broken out at Umuodu Community Primary School, Ezinihitte Mbieri, in Mbaitoli local government area of Imo state, as politicians carted away electoral officials and result sheets today. The chaos started at the venue of collation for the ongoing governorship election as the officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission...
•Police officers The Niger State Police Command has arrested a 51-year-old woman, Blessing Jeremiah, for stealing a three-year-old girl-child in Niger State and attempting to transport her to a buyer who had paid her N530,000. The suspect, who was said to have stolen the child from her parents in the Tudun-Natsira area of Minna was […]...
•Kogi LGA Chairman James Onoja in white Security operatives today allegedly arrested the council chairman of Igalamela Local Government Area of Kogi State, James Onoja, for possession of ammunition and lots of cash. The money and the ammunition it was gathered were packed in several ‘Ghana-must-go’ bags, reports Saturday PUNCH. The money and a...
•Votes collation Voting has ended in many polling units in Bayelsa, Imo and Kogi states for the governorship elections in the three states. Voting ended around 3pm in polling units observed by our correspondents in the three states, reports Channels TV. Electoral officials thereafter crossed the unused ballot papers as stipulated in the electo...
A young man, Umoru Iduh, was reportedly shot dead at the Agala-Ogane polling unit in the Anyigba metropolis in Dekina Local Government Area of Kogi East for attempting to snatch electoral materials. It was learnt Iduh was gunned down around 10 am while the voting was about to commence at the said polling unit in […]
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