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 […]
•Suspended Dan Orbih The National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has suspended the National Vice Chairman (South South) Chief Dan Orbih. The National Publicity Secretary of the party, Debo Ologunagba, in a statement, said the decision was taken at the 588th NWC meeting today. He said the NWC considered all issues...
The pound advanced today after Britain’s centre-left Labour Party clinched an expected landslide election victory to end 14 years of right-wing Conservative rule. London’s benchmark FTSE 100 index gave up early gains following news that Keir Starmer will become Britain’s new prime minister after Labour trounced Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives as W...
•Peter Obi and Keir Starmer The Labour Party’s presidential candidate in Nigeria’s 2023 elections, Mr Peter Obi, has extended his warm congratulations to Keir Starmer and the Labour Party UK on their resounding victory in the recent election. In a statement today, Obi expressed his hope that the victory will usher in a new chapter [&hell...
•Sunak and Starmer Labour has won a landslide victory in the UK general election, meaning Keir Starmer will be the new prime minister. •PM-elect Keir Starmer Meanwhile, as the final figures come in, Labour is expected to win 410 seats, with the Conservatives on 144, reports BBC. Also, Rishi Sunak has accepted defeat, and […]
•People sit on benches during a general election campaign Britain’s political leaders made a final frantic push for votes today on the last day of an election campaign expected to return a Labour government after 14 years of Conservative rule. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak insisted he was still “fighting hard” despite one of his closest […...

