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Following the conduct of the Governorship and state Assembly elections in Rivers State, the All Progressives Congress has called on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC to investigate officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission and all those who served as adhoc staff and returning officers in the State. Speaking during the announcement of the governorship election at the INEC State Collation Centre in Port Harcourt on Monday, the Returning Agent for the APC, Michael West, claimed that INEC officials and ad hoc staff were induced in hard currency, to rig the elections in favour of the Peoples Democratic…
The Electoral Officer and the Returning Officer for the Zamfara State governorship election in the Maradun Local Government Area have been kidnapped. The incident happened on Monday in the local government area in the hometown of Governor Bello Mohammed Matawalle, who is seeking re-election. The officials of INEC were heading to the headquarters of the Commission in Gusau, the state capital, when they were kidnapped and taken to an undisclosed location. Muktari Janyau, the Public Relations Officer of the state’s INEC, confirmed the report and said the matter had been reported to the Police. Read the full article here
Recently evicted housemate of the Big Brother Titans, BBTitans reality TV show, Miracle OP has said he has no romantic feelings towards Khosi. The Nigerian-born housemate disclosed this on stage during his chat with the show host, Ebuka Obi Uchendu when he was asked about his relationship with Khosi. Miracle described Khosi as a great woman and expressed how much he respected her. “I have a lot of respect for Khosi, she is a great woman and I have no romantic feelings towards her.” Also, speaking on his relationship with Yemi, Miracle said he didn’t like Yemi at first because…
Arsenal forward Bukayo Saka has declared that the team will not fear any opponent in their title race. The Gunners sit top of the Premier League table, now eight points ahead of Manchester City pending their game in hand. The Gunners will face Liverpool as their next opponents with Manchester City, Chelsea, and Newcastle United also lined up in the space of four weeks. “Martin [Keown] was urging caution. I was saying, ‘look, when I look at you in the squad, you’ve got to go to Manchester. “‘You should go to Liverpool with great belief.’ Martin thinks that I’m getting…
Two employees of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) kidnapped two weeks ago in northern Mali have been released “safe and sound and unconditionally”, the NGO announced overnight from Sunday to Monday. “The two ICRC collaborators kidnapped on March 4 between (the cities of) Gao and Kidal (north) were released this (Sunday) evening”, announced the Malian branch of the ICRC on Twitter. “Our colleagues are doing well and have been released unharmed and unconditionally,” she said. The NGO “thanks all those who contributed to their release”. The two employees “will be reunited with their families as soon as…
Musician Aituaje Iruobe, known professionally as Waje, believed in the Nigerian dream. She was among those recruited by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the EU to compose a song titled ‘Not for Sale’, to promote Nigerian unity and peaceful elections. On 18 March 2023, she, along with a few friends, went to a polling unit in Lagos to cast their votes, but what they witnessed was unexpected. She said her friend was attacked by thugs and told to go and vote in Anambra in the southeast. They beat my friend…They slapped him, beat him up. They whipped him…
The Independent National Electoral Commission has announced that governorship and House of Assembly elections will be held in Kwande Local Government Area of Benue State on Tuesday, March 21, 2023. This announcement was contained in a statement signed by the National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye on Monday. It would be recalled that the elections in Kwande LGA were suspended. This decision followed an inadvertent mix up of some of the sensitive materials for the two state assembly constituencies in the area – Kwande East and Kwande West. According to Okoye “For this reason,…
A communal clash created tension in the Abule-Ado area of Lagos on Sunday. PUNCH Metro gathered that while properties were destroyed, no causality was recorded in the clash. Our correspondent learnt that the arrival of men of the state police command at the scene saved the day for residents caught up in the clash. The state command confirmed the clash in a statement posted on its Twitter handle, @LagosPoliceNG. It disclosed that two persons were arrested over the unrest while normalcy had been restored to the area. The police statement read, “The police have since restored normalcy in Abule-Ado. An…
The provocative claim by some Nigerians, of Igbo extraction, that Lagos is a no-man’s land riles the Yoruba, who are the first settlers in Lagos. Some Igbo, probably in retaliation for the hostility demonstrated against them by their Yoruba compatriots, during the recently concluded presidential election, employed rather violent words in return. The Yoruba became even more anxious when Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party, defeated the godfather of Lagos politics, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, who won the presidency almost by a whisker. Lagos was won for Obi by the Igbo, Lagos indigenes disgruntled with Tinubu’s party machine, urban…
The All Progressives Grand Alliance in Abia State has said it totally rejects the results of the March 18 governorship poll in the state so far declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission. In a statement signed on Monday by the APGA Chairman Abia State, Rev. Augustine Ehiemere, the party said it would not accept an election “marred by irregularities.” It, however, urged supporters to remain calm as they await the conclusion of the process. The statement read partly, “The results so far announced did not in any way reflect the will of the good people of Abia voters as…
