Residents of Kano State, on Monday defied the curfew imposed by the state government to celebrate the victory of the candidate of New Nigeria Peoples’ Party, Yusuf Abba, as the winner of Saturday’s governorship election in the state. Videos show...
AS results of the weekend’s governorship and state assembly polls trickled in, yesterday, some serving governors, led by Seyi Makinde of Oyo; Dapo Abiodun of Ogun, and Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq of Kwara; among others, were handed fresh mandates, even as...
The opposition Peoples Democratic Party floored the All Progressives Congress in one of the polling units in Sir Kashim Ibrahim Government House, Kaduna in Saturday’s governorship poll. The main opposition party’s candidate, Isa Ashiru Kudan, won polling unit 014 with...
The governorship candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party in Ogun State, Olufemi Ajadi, has vowed that the party will initiate legal actions against the Independent National Electoral Commission for omitting the party’s name on the ballot papers. Ajadi who...
Arise Television crew was attacked while covering the ongoing governorship and House of Assembly elections in the Elegushi Palace area of Lagos State. According to broadcast journalist, Oseni Rufai, via his verified Twitter handle on Saturday, the cameras and drone...
A member of the All Progressives Congress has been shot dead in Cross River State. It was gathered that the incident happened on Saturday morning at Ogoja in the northern senatorial district. The victim, who was simply identified as Joe, was...
Some polling units in the Ajiran area of Agungi, Lekki, Eti-Osa Local Government Area in Lagos State were on Saturday morning attacked by hoodlums, who snatched ballot boxes. Our correspondent observed that the hoodlums attacked PU 108, PU 007 and...
The Transition Monitoring Group, TMG, has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission, to use the Saturday Governorship and State Assembly elections to redeem its image by conducting credible elections across the country. Chairman of the Group, Auwal Ibrahim Musa Rafsanjani,...
The Lagos State Police Command has arraigned a fraud syndicate comprising eight men before the Federal High Court in Lagos for allegedly hacking into the server of an electronic platform, ITEX Integrated Services Limited, and stealing N435.3m. The defendants including...
Though normalcy seems to be gradual in coming, currency circulation has improved in major cities across Nigeria following the third day full implementation of the Supreme Court ruling on the legal tender status of old Naira banknote. Vanguard findings reveal...