The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has been barred from conducting the supplementary governorship election scheduled for March 23 in Adamawa State. The Adamawa State High Court, presided by Justice Abdulaziz Waziri, granted an interim injunction barring INEC from conducting the re-scheduled polls in the 44 polling units where voting either did not hold or […]

Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha was conspicuously absent as the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, issued certificates of return to senators-elect at the International Conference Centre, Abuja, on Thursday. Reporters roved, people searched, but in vain they all searched for the outgoing governor. With Okorocha’s loud absence, it soon dawned on everyone that INEC had, […]

An 11-year-old victim of the 3-storey building that collapsed in Lagos yesterday narrowly escaped being taken into the mortuary alive at the Lagos Island General Hospital. It was learnt that the unconscious victim, Taofeekat Rasheed, was about to be wheeled to the morgue, when her family insisted that she should be handed over to them […]

The All Progressives Congress, APC, Bayelsa State Chapter has taken a swipe at the Elders Group, led by Chief Edwin Clark, over its position on the lingering political crisis in the Niger Delta region, describing the stance as biased, myopic and unpatriotic. In a statement signed by the Publicity Secretary of the APC, Bayelsa Chapter, […]

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board on Wednesday announced that the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) will take place across the country as from April 11,2019. In a release signed by JAMB head of media, Dr Fabian Benjamin, the board also stated that it shifted the date for mock examination from March 23, to April […]

The Senate will begin the second reading and debate on the general principles of the N8.83trn 2019 budget  on Wednesday. President Muhammadu Buhari submitted the document to the national legislature at a joint session three months ago but  the  lawmakers could not fully attend to  it due to the  elections. The   Senate President, Bukola Saraki, […]

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will conduct supplementary election in on  March 23 in Sokoto, Kano, Adamawa, and three other states where the March 9 elections are deadlocked. The other states are Benue, Plateau and Bauchi. Festus Okoye, head of the commission’s information and voter education committee, announced INEC’s decision on Tuesday in a […]

The Vice Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Peter Obi, in the 2019 general election has asserted that the involvement of the military in the Governorship and House of Assembly election worsened the situation in Rivers State. Obi made the remark on Tuesday in his review of the Governorship and House of Assembly […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the constitution of a Presidential Inauguration Committee  ahead of May 29, 2019 handover. The committee is saddled with the job of planning, organising and executing all approved activities for the 2019 presidential inauguration. The Permanent Secretary, General Services Office in the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the […]