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The Labour Party candidate, Alex Otti, has been declared the winner of the Abia State governorship election following the eventual declaration, on Wednesday, of the results of the controversial Obingwa Local Government Area results. With the conclusion of the collation of the outstanding results of the election, the Peoples Democratic...

  Gov. Seyi Makinde of Oyo State, says his victory in last Saturday’s governorship election is a call to do more for the state and its people. This is contained in a statement on Wednesday in Ibadan by the Chief Press Secretary to the governor, Mr Taiwo Adisa. The governor...

The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, has apologised to Nigerians for the rise in failed electronic banking transactions. Emefiele, who spoke at the end of the two-day monetary policy committee meeting in Abuja on Tuesday, assured Nigerians that the issue will be resolved quickly. According...

Former Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, has said that anyone who believes they can unseat President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, is daydreaming. Fayose stated this while appearing on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Tuesday. Recall that the presidential candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, and...

In light of the serious shortcomings with the Governorship and State Houses of Assembly elections, over seventy Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) under the auspices of the Nigerian Civil Society Situation Room have called for an independent inquiry into the conduct of the 2023 Nigeria General Elections. Situation Room Convener, Ene...

  The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) Wednesday said it would shut down the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) for failure to make cash available to Nigerians, thereby causing untold hardship to the citizenry. Already the NLC has directed all the affiliate unions to begin the mobilisation to ensure total compliance...

The Labour Party presidential candidate, Mr Peter Obi, has insisted that he won the convincingly, disputed the results of the 25 February election in 21 of the 36 states in Nigeria. The 21 states include three of the 11 states Obi won based on the final result announced by the...

  The Federal Government has announced the removal of excise duty for telecom sub-sector of Nigeria's Digital Economy Industry in line with the recommendations of the Committee it constituted to review the applicability of the Duty to the telecom sector which is considered already overburdened with taxation and sundry levies....

Felix Akpan, a professor of Political Science at the University of Calabar (UNICAL), has been found dead in his apartment. Irene Ugbo, Cross River police command spokesperson, confirmed the recovery of his corpse on Monday. Ugbo said Akpan’s body was discovered on Sunday with multiple stab wounds in his apartment...

  The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says its operations are guided by the Electoral Act and not by political parties. Prof. Gabriel Yomere, Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in Cross River, made this known in Calabar during an interview with journalists. Yomere was reacting to calls by the Social Democratic...