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The Peoples Democratic Party governorship candidate, Siminaliayi Fubara, has been declared the winner of Saturday’s governorship election in the state. The Independent National Electoral Commission declared Fabura the winner of the poll on Monday night. The PDP’s flagbearer won in the 23 Local Government Areas of the state. The INEC Returning Officer, Prof. Akpofure Rim-Rukeh, said the PDP candidate polled 302,614 votes to defeat his closet rival Tonye Cole of the All Progressives Congress who scored 95,274 votes. The Social Democratic Party candidate, Senator Magnus Abe, and Labour Party’s Beatrice Itubo came a distant third and fourth with 46,981 and…
The electoral officer in charge of Maradun Local Government Area in Zamfara State, Bashir Shagari, has been kidnapped by unknown gunmen. Shagari, according to a source, was coming to INEC collation center in Gusau to deliver the results of the governorship election for Maradun Local Government when he was kidnapped along the road on Monday. The source further revealed that the electoral officer was together with other INEC staff when they were stopped on a bridge near Maradun town and whisked away to an unknown destination. Confirming the incident to The PUNCH, the Public Relations Officer of INEC in the…
Africa was a beautiful, highly organised, and well-administered society within the purview of understanding our forefathers before the colonial masters came. We had the equivalent paraphernalia of the western model of administration with inbuilt mechanisms for order, security, education, parenting, matrimony, justice and social welfare. Despite the elitist rulership culture, there was a complementary cultural facility that guaranteed communalism with a deeply ingrained spirit of brotherhood. Anthropological studies of the kinship system have shown that our deep sense of communalism may invariably be a cultural export from Africa to the rest of the world especially Europe. Africans are warm and…
The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress in Delta State, Ovie Omo-Agege, on Monday lost the governorship seat to the Peoples Democratic Party’s Sheriff Oborevwori. In the governorship election that took place on Saturday, Omo-Agege polled a total of 240,229 votes which was 120,005 votes short of what his counterpart in the PDP polled. Oborevwori secured 360,234 total votes. Despite being the deputy president of the Senate and the senator representing the Delta State Central Senatorial District, Omo-Agege won in only four local governments out of 25 local government areas in the state. The State Returning Officer, Prof Georgewill…
The Nigeria Communications Commission has launched its Telecom Consumer Assistance, Resolution and Enquiries Desk, in the Arrival Lounge of the Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport Abuja. This development by the NCC was part of its activities to mark the 2023 World Consumer Rights Day. The Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport became the first beneficiary of TELCARE desk of the commission. This was disclosed in a statement released by the commission’s Director of Public Affairs, Reuben Muoka, on Monday. The Chairman, Board of Commissioners of NCC, Prof. Adeolu Akande, who unveiled the initiative, said the launch of the TELCARE is the beginning of the…
The Director-General of the World Health Organisation, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has urged countries to work together to prevent future epidemics and pandemics. Ghebreyesus made the call in a video posted on his official Twitter page: @DrTedros on Saturday. He noted that working together through an agreed ‘Pandemic Accord’ can help countries to forestall and adequately prepare for future epidemics and pandemics. He said, “The Pandemic Accord is an agreement between nations to work in cooperation with each other not in competition to prepare for and respond to epidemics and pandemics. “It is essential to emphasise that this accord is negotiated…
Federico Chiesa and Federico Dimarco have withdrawn from the Italy squad for their opening Euro 2024 qualifiers, the national football federation announced on Monday. Juventus winger Chiesa limped off after coming on as a substitute as Juventus beat Inter Milan in a Serie A. Examinations on his knee showed no injury, but the club said he needs to rest. Inter left back Dimarco went off earlier in the same game. West Ham defender Emerson Palmieri has been called up for Dimarco but no replacement was named for Chiesa. Chiesa was a starter on the team that beat England on penalties…
A jury seated in Florida has convicted three men over the death of late rapper, Jahseh Ricardo Onfroy, professionally known as XXXTentacion. Michael Boatwright, 28, Dedrick Williams, 26, and Trayvon Newsome, 24 were all found guilty of first-degree murder and armed robbery in Broward County court on Monday, NBC News reports. The incident took place on the 18th of June, 2018, when two masked men attacked Onfroy as he drove out of a Florida RIVA Motorsports dealership. Surveillance video played in the court showed one of the men appearing to shoot through the driver’s side window. The assailants also carted away…
Over the years, equipment in most laboratories across the nation’s universities is obsolete and poorly equipped. Visits to many laboratories in the universities revealed how both lecturers and students improvise during practical or avoid practical learning completely due to a lack of required apparatus. While suggesting solutions to the deteriorating state of public universities’ laboratories, the Head of Microbiology Department at Adeleke University, Osun State, Dr Oladipo Kolawole, suggested that university administrators should prioritise laboratory equipment in budget planning, saying this would ensure that there was a consistent budget allocation for purchasing, upgrading, and maintaining laboratory equipment. He added that…
Dream Venture Capital, an investor accelerator, has announced that applications for its 2023 Venture Capital Fellowship Programmes are now open. According to the VC, the programmes offer an extensive curriculum, practical training, and direct exposure to investors, providing the ideal launch pad for aspiring and current investors to break into the African venture space. It stated that application to the programme will run from now until April 16. It explained that it had over 50 Venture Capital Funds supporting its curriculum and had successfully trained over 80 fellows through its flagship Investor Accelerator and Launch into Venture Capital Programmes. Dream…
