•An election day in Nigeria Tribune Editorial The proposed bill seeking to jail Nigerians who abstain from voting in national and state elections is not only alarmingly authoritarian, it is a profound misreading of Nigeria’s democratic challenges and a glaring misplacement of legislative priorities. Rather than confronting the real reasons be...
•House of Representatives The House of Representatives has voted in support of the declaration of a state of emergency in Rivers State. In a move that has split Nigerians and has continued to attract severe criticism, President Bola Tinubu on Tuesday declared a state of emergency in Rivers and suspended Governor Siminalayi Fubara, his deputy [...
Speaker, Osun State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Adewale Egbedun, cast his vote early today at Unit 5 Ward 9, Odo-Otin Local Government Area of the state. This is as the state governor, Senator Ademola Adeleke cast his ballot at his Sagba Abogunde, Unit 9, Ward 2, Ede North Local Government Area at exactly 8 […]
•Presiding officer, Caroline Sharkey (R) looks on as an Islander casts his ballot inside the polling station Vote counting in Ireland’s general election gets underway today with an exit poll indicating a tight finish between the three main parties. After voting concluded late yesterday, an exit poll indicated that pro-Irish unity party Sinn Fe...
•Trump and Harris U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and Democrat candidate Kamala Harris are running neck and neck ahead of the presidential election, a fresh Leger poll released by the New York Post showed. Both candidates have 49 per cent support ahead of tomorrow vote, while the other 2 per cent of respondents said [&helli...
•Olumide Akpata casts vote The Labour Party, LP, candidate at the Edo State Gubernatorial elections, Olumide Akpata, has cast his vote at his polling unit at Oredo Ward 6, Unit 11. The voting has been largely peaceful across the state, except for a few cases of late arrival of voting materials and hitches with the […]
•Wike and Obaseki The Governor of Edo State, Godwin Obaseki, insists that his fallout with the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, will not hurt the chances of the Peoples Democratic Party to emerge victorious in Saturday’s governorship election in the state. Wike was one of the figureheads that worked for Obaseki’s victory...
•Minimum wage Representatives of state governments at the last Federation Accounts Allocation Committee meeting have bemoaned the decision by the federal government to save additional revenue for the payment of the new minimum wage. This development, which affected their revenue distribution from the federation committee, was received with opp...
•Nigerian lawyers The 2024 election of new national leaders of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) is ongoing. NBA National Publicity Secretary, Akorede Habeeb Lawal, in a statement made available to The Frontier today says the voting process began at midnight today, Saturday, July 20, 2024, and will end precisely at 11:59 pm also today. Accord...
The Security Council will vote tomorrow on a new draft resolution that seeks an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, diplomats said, but the United States has indicated it may veto it. The vote will come a day after the United States put forward a text on the need for a ceasefire that was vetoed by Russia […]

