archiveMarch 2019

The INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner for Kano State, Prof. Riskuwa Arabu, has called on residents and the electorate to exercise patience over the delay in announcing results of Saturday’s Governorship and State National Assembly polls. The Kano REC who made the appeal after the collation process was disrupted at the...

Oyo State Governor-Elect, Mr. Seyi Makinde of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) on Monday liken his victory at the Saturday’s polls to the success of the Agbekoya struggle of 1968. Makinde, who spoke during a press Congress in his Ikolaba residence said, the victory, just like the peasant revolt, clearly...

With Nigerians still reminiscing over the outcome of the recent elections, the Executive Vice-Chairman, National Agency for Science Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI), Haruna Sani, has said Nigerians have the technical capacity to develop better technology to take care of future elections. During the just-concluded round of elections, the bulk of the...

Senator Shehu Sani, the lawmaker representing Kaduna Central Senatorial District in the National Assembly, has expressed sadness over the death of Pius Adesanmi, popular Nigerian professor and columnist, alongside 149 passengers and eight crew members involved in the Ethiopian Airliner plane crash. The airline announced that there were no survivors...

  China’s aviation regulator on Monday grounded nearly 100 Boeing Co 737 MAX 8 aircraft operated by its airlines, after a deadly crash of one of the planes in Ethiopia. An Ethiopian Airlines 737 MAX 8 bound for Nairobi crashed minutes after take-off on Sunday, killing all 157 people on...

The lawmaker representing Akinyele/ Lagelu federal constituency in Oyo State in the House of Representatives, Hon. Temitope Olatoye, is dead. Olatoye, who was reported shot by some suspected political thugs on Saturday, was pronounced dead at the University College Hospital (UCH) on Saturday evening. Olatoye, who lost the National Assembly...

The Albino Foundation (TAF) said on Saturday it was concerned that most of its demands for the March 9 governorship and House of Assembly elections were not met by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Founder of TAF, Mr Jake Epelle, who is also an accredited observer of the European...

  Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have arrested Sotayo Olatayo Johnson, candidate of the Allied Peoples Movement (APM). Sotayo seeking to represent Abeokuta South Constituency 1, Ogun Central in the Ogun State House of Assembly,  was allegedly caught with N1.7million neatly arranged in white envelopes, stashed...

  The Senior Pastor of Latter Rain Assembly, Tunde Bakare, on Saturday expressed his willingness to contest for the presidency of Nigeria after the expiration of President Muhammadu Buhari’s second term in 2023. Bakare made the announcement about his ambition during an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)...

  The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, has advocated for greater roles for the Nigerian military in election monitoring. Oshiomhole also described those campaigning against the role of the military in elections as enemies of democracy. The APC chairman, who spoke shortly after voting at...