Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode on Sunday evening expressed sadness over the death of a founding father of Lagos State, Pa Hassan Fasinro. Popularly called HAB, Pa Fasinro, a Senator in the Second Republic and the first Clerk of Lagos City Council, passed on at exactly 8:29pm on Sunday evening after a brief illness. … Read more
Governor Rochas Okorocha has said that the withholding of his Certificate of Return by the INEC has the potential to stir tension in Imo State. In his reaction to the development, Okorocha argued that the move to withhold his certificate of return based on allegation without hearing his own side of the story was unjust. … Read more
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has presented Certificates of Return to the newly elected members of the House of Representatives. INEC had earlier published a statement noting that the event will take place at Africa Hall of the International Conference Centre (ICC) in Abuja on Thursday. At an earlier ceremony which kicked off at … Read more
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has been barred by the Adamawa State High Court, from conducting the supplementary governorship election scheduled for the state on March, 23. Justice Abdulaziz Waziri, granted an interim injunction by one of the governorship candidates stopping INEC from conducting the supplementary polls in the 44 polling units where voting … Read more
Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has dismissed speculations that it had altered its earlier plan to present Certificates of Return to newly-elected federal lawmakers, saying the event will go on today as scheduled. There were reports that the event had been shifted to March 23, but when contacted, Chief Press Secretary to INEC Chairman, … Read more
Former Minister for Defence and Chieftain of the All Progressive Congress, APC, Chief Demola Seriki, has described the governorship candidate of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP,in Saturday’s governorship election, Mr. Jimi Agbaje, as a ‘perennial runner’ that needs encouragement to look for a successor for his party. Fielding questions from newsmen following Mr. Babajide … Read more
The President of Arewa Consultative Youth Forum , Yerima Shetimma, yesterday expressed displeasure over the outcome of 2019 general elections even as he accused the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC of playing the All Progressives Congress script. Shetimma who spoke during a Geo-political mega rally in Lagos tagged, “#SaveOurDemocracy” said the kind of democracy playing … Read more
Six more people were recovered from the accident scene in Lagos where a three-storey building housing a children’s school collapsed on Wednesday morning. Only one of the bodies was confirmed dead at the point of recovery with the fate of the five others uncertain. More than 100 people, mostly pupils of Ohen Nursery and Primary … Read more
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Mrs Stella Ojekwe-Onyejeli and Mr Aminu Umar-Sadiq as Executive Directors on the Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority (NSIA) board. President Muhammadu Buhari appointed an Acting Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) three years after the last board was sacked. [The Guardian Nigeria] The NSIA spokesman, … Read more
The Kaduna State government have imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew in all parts of Kajuru Local Government Area, effective from today, Wednesday, 13th March 2019. In a statement issued by the Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to the governor, Samuel Aruwan, el Rufai appealed to all residents and communities in the affected areas to … Read more
The Nigeria Labour Congress in Borno State on Wednesday appealed to Governor Kashim Shettima to clear the N20 billion being owed pensioners in gratuity and pension before he leaves office. The NLC Chairman in the state, Mr Titus Abana, made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria, in Maiduguri. Abana said … Read more
The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja ordered the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC) not to arrest Femi Fani-Kayode and Yinka Odumakin without following due process of the law. Ruling on a fundamental rights suit filed by the duo, Justice John Tsoho, maintained that such arrest by the EFCC, Department of State Services (DSS) … Read more
A former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Olabode George, has slammed members of the party who are hurriedly defecting to the All Progressives Congress (APC) shortly after the presidential election. Speaking to newsmen on Tuesday, George said he had no objection to the decision of the party to challenge the outcome … Read more
Residents have brought down the statue of the Imo state governor, Rochas Okorocha. This comes after the state governor’s son-in-law, Uche Nwosu lost the governorship seat of the state and his (Okorocha)’s Senate victory was unrecognized by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Reports also confirmed to Naija News that the campaign posters of Okorocha, … Read more
Jimi Agbaje, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate for the just concluded Lagos State governorship elections lost 68.75 per cent of the votes he polled in 2015. Agbaje, who lost to Babajide Sanwo-Olu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Saturday, had contested and lost against the incumbent, Akinwunmi Ambode in 2015. He polled 659,738 … Read more
The Emir of Kano, Alhaji Muhammad Sanusi II has implored the residents of the state to desist from spreading rumour that can lead to violence following the declaration of the governorship election in the state as inconclusive. The monarch made the plea while during a news conference at his palace in Kano on Tuesday. He … Read more
Ahead of the supplementary election on March 23, both the PDP and the APC in Benue State have held a series of meetings of stakeholders across the State The acting State Publicity Secretary of the APC, James Orguga, said the party was very much comfortable with the declaration of the governorship election inconclusive. He … Read more
The Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, has advised the PDP and its candidate to be prepared of the shocker that awaits them on March 23 because the APC had gone back to the drawing board. The governor, who spoke through the state Commissioner for Information, Youth and Culture and Chairman, Publicity 2019 Election, Mallam … Read more
A group of women and youth had stormed the INEC Office in Sokoto on Tuesday to protest against the decision of the commission to declare the state governorship poll inconclusive. The protesters, who were armed with placards, were denied entrance into the INEC state headquarters. They, however, barricaded the major roads leading to the office … Read more
Buhari just returned to Abuja after participating in Saturday’s Gubernatorial and State House of Assembly elections in his hometown, Daura, Katsina State. President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday met behind closed doors with seven state governors of the governing All Progressives Congress (APC), at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the … Read more