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Election results management remains the most contested and consequential phase of Nigeria’s electoral process. It is the point at which votes cast by citizens are translated into electoral outcomes. It is here that the inconceivable becomes routine: results are altered, substituted, or manufactured outright; officials are compromised; and security agencies, shedding the garb of neutrality, interfere with collation to engineer a preferred outcome, mostly to protect a regime or oust an incumbent. This is the stage at which the integrity, independence and resilience of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) face their most severe test. One opportunity to strengthen confidence…
Veteran Nigerian galala singer John “Daddy Showkey” Asiemo has expressed disappointment over the long-running feud between P-Square singers Peter and Paul Okoye and their elder brother and former manager, Jude Okoye. Daddy Showkey made the remarks during a viral interview with Goldmyne TV, where he said the brothers’ feud had destroyed what he described as “Africa’s biggest music group.” PREMIUM TIMES earlier reported that the family had remained in the news for days following a fresh round of accusations between the brothers. Peter, known as Mr P, sparked the latest controversy after releasing a series of videos detailing his version…
Cristiano Ronaldo has scored against 23 of the 24 teams he has faced in the Saudi Pro League, with Al-Batin the only club to have kept the Portuguese superstar from finding the net. The five-time Ballon d’Or winner has continued to produce impressive numbers since moving to Al-Nassr in January 2023, despite arriving in Saudi Arabia after a difficult final spell at Manchester United and a disappointing 2022 World Cup with Portugal. Ronaldo has scored 102 goals in 107 Saudi Pro League appearances, giving him an outstanding scoring record in the competition. Across all competitions, he has registered 123 goals…
Little People, Big World alum Audrey Roloff is addressing the backlash to her and husband Jeremy Roloff’s decision not to purchase his family farm. “Things my July content didn’t tell you about my July,” Audrey, 35, began via Instagram on Wednesday, August 5. “Received some absolutely cruel messages from people who have two percent context for a hard decision we had to make as a family.” Elsewhere in her Instagram roundup, Audrey revealed that she and Jeremy, 36, “ultimately decided not” to buy Roloff Farms when given the opportunity earlier this year. “While we felt confident in our decision, it…
Chief Justice of Nigeria, Kudirat Kekere-Ekun How we dress and address legal and judicial vocations in Nigeria is important. But even more important is whether we care to redress the lost mission and ethos of those institutions. Nigeria’s Chief Justice may have missed an opportunity with her piddling circular, but it is not too late for her to retrieve a sense of direction. “The division between the two professions was well recognised by the end of the 16th century and by the end of the 17th was quite firm….While the solicitor spends much of his time trying to keep his…
Como have completed the signing of Trevoh Chalobah from Chelsea in a deal worth more than £30m. As reported by BBC Sport on Saturday, the 27-year-old defender has signed a five-year contract with the Italian club, who are preparing for Champions League football after finishing fourth in Serie A last season. Chelsea will receive an initial £25.7m for Chalobah, with a further £5.1m available in performance-related add-ons following lengthy negotiations between the two clubs. The move brings an end to Chalobah’s nearly 20-year association with Chelsea. The centre-back joined the club as a child and went on to make 151…
My Life With the Walter Boys is returning for season 4 on Netflix — but is every cast member coming back to the show. Based on Ali Novak‘s book, My Life With the Walter Boys follows recently orphaned Jackie, a teenage girl from Manhattan who relocates to rural Colorado after she is taken in by the Walters, a family of seven sons and a daughter. In addition to Nikki Rodriguez, the show stars Noah LaLonde, Ashby Gentry, Johnny Link, Corey Fogelmanis, Connor Stanhope, Zoë Soul, Jaylan Evans and Sarah Rafferty. Before the show returned for season 3, Rafferty promised to…
The newly launched Bajju UK and Europe Association has announced plans to establish an educational trust fund to provide scholarships for less privileged children in Bajju communities in Southern Kaduna. The association said the initiative is part of a broader development agenda through which Bajju people in the United Kingdom and Europe hope to contribute to education, infrastructure and cultural preservation in their ancestral communities. The association was formally launched on Saturday at Stretford Public Hall, Chester Road, Stretford, Manchester. Speaking at the event, the association’s president, Nathaniel James, said the educational trust is one of the new organisation’s major…
Now let me put down the little that comes to my head for now, in evidence of Nigeria’s unity, of the fact that we are one, and that our ancestors had great interaction among themselves, and respect for one another in times past than we have today when we are supposed to be more enlightened and educated, even as we carry millions of communication gadgets around but refuse to understand one another. I first came across the word as a Scrabble-loving kid. I could have been around 12 or 13 years. In those days, we would ‘challenge’ and search for…
The All Progressives Congress in Oyo State has urged voters in Osun State to support its governorship candidate, Bola Oyebamiji, in Saturday’s governorship election. The party, in a statement issued on Sunday by its Publicity Secretary, Olawale Sadare, in Ibadan, said the need for quality leadership, effective representation and equitable distribution of resources informed its call for a change of government in the state. PUNCH Online reports that the Independent National Electoral Commission has fixed Saturday, August 15, 2026, for the Osun State governorship election. The Oyo APC also urged Osun voters “to save their state from charlatans and comedians…
