•PDP, APC and LP candidates The ongoing nationwide fuel crisis has forced the Independent National Electoral Commission to increase its financial commitment to the transport unions that would be involved in Saturday’s Edo State governorship election. The adjustment, one of our correspondents learnt, was in response to the recent surge i...
•Gunmen Gory images of slaughtered youths emerged yesterday at Abuloma, Port Harcourt Capital City after gunshots rocked the elections organised by the Jonathan Lokpobiri -led Ijaw Youths Council (IYC) for the Eastern Zone. Though some persons claimed that six youths were either shot and killed or cut to death with cutlasses, others said two w...
•Senator Adams Oshiomhole Before the Edo State governorship election, Sam Amadi, Director of the Abuja School of Social and Political Thoughts, has advised Governor Godwin Obaseki to remain vigilant and not let his guard down. Amadi alleged that the former governor of the state, Adams Oshiomhole, cannot win without rigging. Oshiomhole is firml...
The Independent National Electoral Commission has opened its online portal for the accreditation of media organisations and journalists covering the upcoming Ondo State governorship election, set for November 16, 2024. INEC, in a statement released today by its National Commissioner and the Chairman of the Information and Voter Education Commi...
The Chief Press Secretary to the Chairman of The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Rotimi Oyekanmi, has said that the commission has learnt its lessons. Oyekanmi stated this while analysing the Commission’s preparedness on the forthcoming governorship election in Edo State during an interview on Channels TV last night. He said ...
The Independent National Electoral Commission has announced that more than 44,000 polling and collation agents have been submitted by political parties for the upcoming Edo State governorship election. This information was disclosed in a press release issued today by the National Commissioner and Chairman of the Information and Voter Education...
The Edo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), said it has suspended its ongoing ward-to-ward campaigns across the state in solidarity with the ongoing nationwide protest against hunger and bad governance. This was announced in a press release signed by the Director General of the Edo PDP gubernatorial campaign council, Hon. Math...
•Nicolas Maduro Nicolas Maduro was declared the winner of Venezuela’s presidential election yesterday but the opposition and key regional neighbours immediately rejected the official results. The opposition coalition itself claimed victory by a large margin, after an election campaign tainted by claims of political intimidation and fears of fr...
•Nze Chidi Duru Deputy National Organising Secretary of the All Progressives Congress Nze Chidi Duru, shares his thoughts with Sunday PUNCH about the economic hardship in the country, President Bola Tinubu’s reforms, and the political crisis rocking Kano and Rivers states, among other issues. Excerpts: What’s your assessment of President Bola ...
•Governor Usman Ododo The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja has affirmed the election of Usman Ododo as the Governor of Kogi State. A three-man panel of the appellate court affirmed the Kogi State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal, which affirmed the victory of Ododo as the duly elected governor of Kogi State in the November […]

