•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 [...
The Independent National Electoral Commission in Lagos State today took delivery of sensitive materials for Saturday’s Surulere Federal Constituency I by-election from the Central Bank of Nigeria. INEC’s Resident Electoral Commissioner in the state, Prof. Ayobami Salami, told newsmen that the commission was fully prepared for the election. Sal...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has excluded the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from participating in the Saturday re-run election for Plateau North Senatorial District and Jos North/Bassa federal constituency. This is just as the State Inter-Party Advisory Council (IPAC) warned INEC not to plunge Plateau State into crisis...
•Amina Divine Arong The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has appointed Amina Divine Arong as the new National Woman Leader of the party, four months after the death of Stella Effah-Attoe who previously held that position. “The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has appointed a prominent Party women mobilizer, Hon. Amina Divine Arong from Cross River...

