ANAMBRA remains the only state in the country whose house of assembly is not controlled by either of the two main parties after the All Progressives Grand Alliance (Apga) won 24 of the 30 seats up for grabs yesterday.
HON Temitope Olatoye the member of the Federal House of Representatives representing the Akinyele/Lagelu Federal Constituency in Oyo State has been reported dead after he was shot by unknown gunmen in Ibadan during yesterday's elections.
INDEPENDENT National Electoral Commission (Inec) officials in Lagos State had to resort to using vuvuzelas to call our voters in certain areas in response to voter apathy as millions of people simply lost interest in yesterday's governorship and house of assembly elections.
INDEPENDENT National Electoral Commission (Inec) ad-hoc staff in Lagos State delayed the commencement of voting today until about 1pm as the protested the non-payment of their feeding allowances insisting they must be paid before they started work.
PEOPLES Democratic Party (PDP) vice presidential candidate and former Anambra State governor Peter Obi has alleged that security forces prevented him from holding a meeting in his home town of Agulu yesterday.
ECONOMIC and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) officials have arrested an All Progressives Congress (APC) agent in Benue State with millions of naira said to belong to the party's gubernatorial candidate Emmanuel Jimeh.
RIVERS State has been the centre of more political violence today despite a heavy military presence as armed thugs have once again snatched ballot boxes in the town of Abonnema in Akuku-Toru Local Government Area as they did during the presidential polls.
INDIGENOUS People of Biafra (Ipob) leader Nnamdi Kanu has urged his followers to return all of the governors in the south-south in today's gubernatorial elections but to vote against the candidate of Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State and all the southeastern governors.
CENTRAL Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) officials have begun working together on a plan that would involve barring anyone convicted of corruption from opening a bank account.
THREE Nigerian authors have been nominated for the 2019 Women’s Prize for Fiction one of the most prestigious literary awards in the world that was once won by Chimamanda Adichie for her novel Half of a Yellow Sun.
ANAMBRA remains the only state in the country whose house of assembly is not controlled by either of the two main parties after the All Progressives Grand Alliance (Apga) won 24 of the 30 seats up for grabs yesterday.
HON Temitope Olatoye the member of the Federal House of Representatives representing the Akinyele/Lagelu Federal Constituency in Oyo State has been reported dead after he was shot by unknown gunmen in Ibadan during yesterday's elections.
INDEPENDENT National Electoral Commission (Inec) officials in Lagos State had to resort to using vuvuzelas to call our voters in certain areas in response to voter apathy as millions of people simply lost interest in yesterday's governorship and house of assembly elections.
INDEPENDENT National Electoral Commission (Inec) ad-hoc staff in Lagos State delayed the commencement of voting today until about 1pm as the protested the non-payment of their feeding allowances insisting they must be paid before they started work.
PEOPLES Democratic Party (PDP) vice presidential candidate and former Anambra State governor Peter Obi has alleged that security forces prevented him from holding a meeting in his home town of Agulu yesterday.
ECONOMIC and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) officials have arrested an All Progressives Congress (APC) agent in Benue State with millions of naira said to belong to the party's gubernatorial candidate Emmanuel Jimeh.
RIVERS State has been the centre of more political violence today despite a heavy military presence as armed thugs have once again snatched ballot boxes in the town of Abonnema in Akuku-Toru Local Government Area as they did during the presidential polls.
INDIGENOUS People of Biafra (Ipob) leader Nnamdi Kanu has urged his followers to return all of the governors in the south-south in today's gubernatorial elections but to vote against the candidate of Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State and all the southeastern governors.
CENTRAL Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) officials have begun working together on a plan that would involve barring anyone convicted of corruption from opening a bank account.
THREE Nigerian authors have been nominated for the 2019 Women’s Prize for Fiction one of the most prestigious literary awards in the world that was once won by Chimamanda Adichie for her novel Half of a Yellow Sun.
