•Voting The re-run and by-elections conducted yesterday in 26 states of the federation ran into a hitch in some states, making the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to order the suspension of polls in some constituencies due to the abduction of election officials, disruption and other irregularities. According to a release signe...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it has suspended yesterday’s rerun elections in specific constituencies in Enugu, Kano and Akwa Ibom States due to disruptions, irregularities and abduction of election officials. The affected areas are Enugu South 1 State Constituency, Enugu State, Ikono/Ini Federal Constituency,...
•Fuad Laguda (L) and Femi Gbajabiamila (R) The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Fuad Laguda, as winner of the Surulere Federal Constituency 1 Bye-Election. Declaring the results, the Returning Officer for the bye-election, Prof Simeon Adebayo, revealed that the ...
•INEC staff with ballot boxes Voting has yet to commence in most polling units in today’s rerun election for Ikono/Ini Federal Constituency of Akwa Ibom, due to late arrival of officials from the Independent National Election Commission (INEC). Although there was massive turnout of voters, the late arrival of officials and election materials h...
•Blessing Agbomhere A frontline governorship aspirant of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the Edo 2024 Governorship Election, Blessing Agbomhere has promised to swear in the eight Judges cleared by the National Judicial Council (NJC) for appointment in the Edo state judiciary. Agbomhere said the refusal of the Edo State governor, Godwin...
•Tinubu Prominent groups in the Northern states are currently at loggerheads over certain policies of the Bola Tinubu administration seen by some as anti-North. The latest of such policies is the recent move by President Bola Tinubu to relocate some departments of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to Lagos from Abuja, the Federal Capital. [&he...
•Election Voters in 26 states of the federation will go to the polls today to fill vacancies in the National and State Assemblies. The affected states are Ebonyi, Yobe, Kebbi, Lagos, Ondo, Taraba, Benue, Borno, Kaduna, Plateau and Akwa Ibom. The rest are Anambra, Cross River, Delta, Enugu, Jigawa, Katsina, Adamawa, Bauchi, Bayelsa, Kano, Nasar...
Police authorities in Lagos State say the restriction of vehicular movement in the state owing to a by-election is only limited to the Surulere area of the state where the exercise for a federal constituency seat is taking place. The Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Kayode Egbetokun had yesterday imposed restrictions on movements – from 12:00...
A Benue State High Court has restrained the suspended state chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Austin Agada from parading himself as the chairman of the party following his suspension by his ward chairman and six others on Tuesday. This comes as the APC in the state has accused the Chief of Staff to […]
•IGP Egbetokun The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Kayode Adeolu Egbetokun has ordered the restriction of all forms of vehicular movement on roads, waterways, and other forms of transportation from 12 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Election Day in all states where elections will be conducted. The Inspector General of Police stated that the restriction [...

