If a man cooks for a community ,the meal would scarcely go round, However, if a community decides to cook for a man, the feast will overwhelm him – old African proverb. The foregoing may have aptly captured the likely outcome of the current standoff between the Department of...
2023 Elections
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said it will soon commence the prosecution of 1,076 electoral offenders arrested in 35 states across the country during the 2023 general election. A credible source in the commission on Wednesday told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja that...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has denied insinuation from the public that it has received huge sums of money from the development partners as sponsorship for elections. Chairman of the Commission, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu who disclosed this at a meeting with...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says the Labour Party (LP) has no ground to call for the sack of its Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, over the outcome of the 2023 general election. The Chief Press Secretary to INEC Chairman, Mr Rotimi Oyekanmi stated this when he spoke with...
The Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, said the commission has received 216 case files from the Nigeria Police on the 2023 general elections. Yakubu stated this on Tuesday in Abuja l during the commission meeting with Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs), which commenced the commission post-election...
The Federal Government has rejected the European Union Elections Observation Mission (EU-EOM) report on the 2023 general elections in the country. The government described it as a reflection of a plan to discredit the election, especially the presidential election won by President Bola Tinubu. This is contained in a...
Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar has called for the revamping of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to regain its eminent and dominant leadership role in Nigeria and Africa. The party’s Presidential Candidate in the 2023 general election gave the advice at a programme “welcome/reception of PDP governors-elect and send forth...
President Muhammadu Buhari has again expressed satisfaction with the conduct of the 2023 general elections in Nigeria, considering the turnout of voters and the generally peaceful atmosphere under which it took place. The president, who stated this while addressing his colleagues at the Commonwealth Leaders Summit on Friday in...
President Muhammadu Buhari says democracy has a bright future in Nigeria. Fielding questions from newsmen after Friday’s Eid-el-Fitr prayers in Abuja, the president said his conviction was based on Nigerians’ disposition to defend democracy against all threats. “Nigerians appreciate the stability of democracy. “The outcome of the 2023 elections...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari says the peaceful outcome of the 2023 general elections”will go down on record as one of the proudest achievements of my administration in addition to our neutrality in the conduct of the elections.” President Buhari stated this in his goodwill message...
In most human societies, visible phenomena are oftentimes credited or associated with the causes of other events. Then, the analysis will take off from there. But, most often, there are other unknown forces or factors that are not easily discernible but are sometimes the real causes, or, responsible for...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has asked the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) to dismiss a petition filed by Labour Party (LP) and its presidential candidate, Peter Obi, saying the reliefs sought are not grantable. INEC, the 1st respondent, stated this in its reply filed on Monday night...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday said the 2023 elections have proved the growing strength of our democracy and more especially, the sophistication of the Nigerian voter when it comes to the choice of the leaders. Speaking when he received the newly-installed Emir of Dutse,...
The Federal Government has berated some western countries for giving credence to the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), a terrorist organisation. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, gave the admonition in Washington DC during his official engagements with some international media organisations and policy institutes. The News...
Mr. Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 Elections, has distanced himself from a purported audio recording of a telephone conversation between him and Bishop David Oyedepo, the founder of Living Faith Church Worldwide. Obi said the audio recording is a product of the...
Over 700 offenders have been arrested by men of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF), for violation of electoral laws during the 2023 general elections. Inspector General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba disclosed this on Monday during a meeting with Commissioners of Police from the 36 states of the federation...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – NIgerian President-elect, Senator Bola Tinubu has congratulated the elected governors and assembly members for earning the mandate of the people in the March 18 Governorship and state assembly elections. Senator Tinubu in a statement on Tuesday, also called on the elected governors and assembly...
From all indications, the Supreme Court will likely decide the outcome of Nigeria’s tightly contested 25th February presidential election and, in some senses, the judiciary could be on trial. The main opposition parties have mounted legal challenges to the results declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), but...
Fake prophesies were churned out. Men of God left the shores of spirituality into the realm of predictions. Doctored opinion polls were released to set agenda for the wrong narratives. They mocked him, called him names, but the strategy in him kept his eyes on the ball. He was...
The New Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP) has joined the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the Labour Party to call for the cancellation of the February 25 presidential and National Assembly elections. The party made this call in a press briefing on Friday, saying that a new election should be...