On Saturday, while voters were discharging their civic duties in Batsari Local Government Area of Katsina State, some attackers believed to be bandits reportedly stormed a polling location along the General Hospital road. When the group attempted to sabotage the governorship and state house of assembly elections today, March 18, 2023, they were stopped by […]
Obiora Obeagu, the executive chairman of the Isi-Uzo Local Government Area in Enugu State, escaped being killed on Saturday by the youths in his village. The chairman and an unnamed woman were almost surrounded after they allegedly tried to buy votes in his polling place during the governorship and House of Assembly elections. Obeagu and […]
10 voting units in the state’s Victoria Garden City, Lekki area will not participate in the governor and house of assembly elections scheduled for this Saturday. This was said by Segun Agbaje, the Lagos State resident electoral commissioner for INEC, during a press conference on Saturday at the VGC. Agbaje claimed that members of the […]
Dayo Israel, the National Youth Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has urged Lagos State residents to ensure the reelection of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu for a second term in office as compensation for his exceptional performance since his election in 2019. During his statewide door-to-door voter engagement campaign ahead of the election on Saturday, […]
Amadi Osaronu, the secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State’s Ikwerre Local Government Area, has been kidnapped by assailants. Chukwudi Ogbonna, a candidate for the Accord Party (AP) in the Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Local Government Area Constituency 2 of the Rivers State House of Assembly for the March 18 election, was abducted by gunmen […]
Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, the Labour Party’s (LP) candidate for governor of Lagos State, refuted allegations that some godfathers pressured him to run. The LP governorship candidate was responding to Abdul-Azeez Olajide Adediran, also known as Jandor, of the Peoples Democratic Party, who claimed on Tuesday that his LP opponent is supported by godfathers like Chief Bode […]
Iyiola Omisore, the party’s national secretary, threatened to sue Salihu Lukman, the APC’s vice chairman in the North West, for defamation, but Lukman has dismissed her threats. According to Naija News, Lukman requested that Omisore submit his resignation during an interview he gave on AIT Television on Tuesday. Members of the ruling party’s National Working […]
Ahmed Sani Yariman Bakura, a nurse at the Specialist Hospital in Zamfara State, reportedly slumped and passed away while performing her duties. According to the hospital’s spokesman, Auwal Usman, who confirmed the incident to the Tribune on Wednesday, Bakura appeared healthy and alert when he arrived at the hospital but was later declared dead after […]
Atiku Abubakar, the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) candidate in the most recent presidential election, has withdrawn his request to the court for permission to watch the Independent National Electoral Commission reconfigure the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) machines. The reorganization of the BVAS used to conduct the presidential election on February 25 had been approved […]
Atiku Abubakar, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in the most recent presidential election, has withdrawn his request that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) permit PDP agents to take part in the process of sorting out materials (ballot papers) used in the running of the presidential election on February 25. In a Notice of […]