Kogi State Police Command has ordered restriction of vehicular movement from 11:59 pm today, November 10, to 6 pm on tomorrow Saturday, November 11. Spokesman of the command, SP William Aya, made this known in a statement today in Lokoja, the Kogi State capital that the movement restriction was due to the governorship election holding [&hellip...
•Dino Melaye and Atiku Abubakar Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, today in Lokoja, the Kogi State capital, has described the candidate of People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the November 11 governorship election, Dino Melaye, as highly intelligent and patriotic and would make one of the best governors in the country if voted for. Atiku said...
•INEC chairman, Mahmood Yakubu Despite growing controversy and calls that the Resident Electoral Commission (REC) in Imo State, Prof Sylvia Agu, be removed, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has insisted that there is no reason to remove the official. “The REC will conduct the election,” said Rotimi Oyekanmi on Channels Tele...
Less than a week before the Imo State governorship election, the candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Labour Party (LP), Senators Samuel Anyanwu and Athan Achonu, have staged a walkout at a stakeholders’ meeting organised by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). The candidates had registered their grievance to t...
•Some guber candidates: Melaye (Kogi), Uzodinma (Imo), Sylva (Bayelsa) At least three persons have been killed with several others injured in separate attacks in Kogi and Bayelsa states ahead of the Saturday gubernatorial election. This is also coming on the heels of alleged attacks on the opposition in Imo State where an election is also [&he...
A yet-to-be-identified middle-aged man was feared dead, yesterday, while five others sustained various degrees of injuries when irate youths went on a rampage at Iyiowa-Odekpe Community, in Ogbaru Local Government Area of Anambra State, triggered by last Monday’s Iyiowa-Odekpe landlords’ association election. At press time, no fewer than 30 ve...
•IGP Kayode Egbetokun The Inspector-General of Police (I-G), Mr. Kayode Egbetokun, has deployed three Deputy Inspectors-General of Police (DIGs) to oversee security arrangements for Saturday’s governoship election in Bayelsa, Imo and Kogi. The Force Public Relations Officer, ACP Olumuyiwa Adejobi said this at a media briefing in Abuja. The DIG...
•Orji Kalu The Court of Appeal, Lagos Division, has reaffirmed the victory of Senator Orji Uzor Kalu of the All Progressives Congress (APC), representing the Abia-North senatorial district. In a unanimous ruling today Monday, November 6, the Appeal Court upheld the judgment of the National Assembly Petitions Tribunal, Umuahia which earlier dis...
•Former US President Donald Trump Former President Donald Trump holds an edge over President Joe Biden in a series of hypothetical matchups among registered voters in four key swing states, new polling from The New York Times and Siena College shows. In Nevada, a state Biden narrowly carried in the 2020 presidential election, Trump boasts [&he...
•Douye Diri A fresh suit demanding the disqualification of Bayelsa State Governor and candidate of the People Democratic Party (PDP), Douye Diri, from the forthcoming governorship election in the state has commenced at the Federal High Court, Abuja. The suit, which also seeks to disqualify Diri’s deputy and running mate, Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo, ...

