•INEC adhoc staff at a polling unit in Abuja, today Residents of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja today gathered to elect chairmen and councillors who will oversee the administration of the six Area Councils. Unlike the 36 states of the election where the polls are called local government elections, they are referred to as […]...
Mixed reactions have trailed the decision of the PDP chairmanship candidate in the Saturday FCT area council election, Mr Julius Adamu, to step down for his APC opponent, Mr Joshua Ishaku. Some residents, who expressed their views in separate interviews with our correspondent today in Bwari, said they were worried about true democracy, while o...
•Casting of votes Registered voters in 13 states across Nigeria will this morning head to the polls to elect new representatives in the Senate, House of Representatives, and state houses of assembly. According to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, the by-elections are expected to be held in 16 constituencies. The affected sta...
•Vote casting Exactly one year after a landmark Supreme Court ruling on local government autonomy in Nigeria, 7,060,195 registered voters in Lagos State, Nigeria’s economic nerve centre and revenue powerhouse, head to the polls today, Saturday, July 12, 2025, to elect their preferred representatives into chairmanship, vice-chairmanship and cou...
•Election officials unload a ballot box at a counting station in Seoul today Centre-left candidate Lee Jae-myung is projected to win South Korea’s presidential election by a landslide after months of political chaos, exit polls showed today, with turnout the highest in nearly three decades. Six months to the day after ex-president Yoon Suk Ye...
As many as 51% of those polled are ready to vote for Harris in the upcoming presidential election, while 48% prefer Trump. Meanwhile, both candidates are at 50% among voters in battleground states, reports TASS. The nationwide poll, conducted on August 14-16, involved about 3,300 registered voters. The margin of error is 2.1 points. The [&hell...
•Harris vs Trump Kamala Harris now leads Donald Trump in three crucial battleground states, according to new polls published yesterday, apparently eroding the advantage the former president has enjoyed there over the past year. The polls of likely voters by The New York Times and Siena College showed Harris leading Trump by an identical 50 [&h...
Polling stations opened across England early today for a host of crunch local elections likely to ratchet up the pressure on embattled Conservative Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. The polls — a mix of council, mayoral and other local contests as well as a parliamentary by-election — are the last major ballot box test before a […]
•Nwaji Chief Sylvanus Nwaji, a chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Abia chapter, has stated that for the Abia State governor, Alex Otti to succeed, he needs to distance himself from praise singers, who according to him, destroyed the administrations of his predecessors – Chief TA Orji and Dr Okezie Ikpeazu, during their [&...

