Stanbic IBTC Bank, a subsidiary of Stanbic IBTC Holdings, has announced its readiness for seamless financial transactions as the cashless policy by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) takes effect. The Central Bank of Nigeria recently released a new policy on cash-based transactions that attracts a cash handling charge for …
Read More »Tinubu records massive victory in 10 Ekiti LGAs
Asiwaju Bola Tinubu of All Progressives Congress, APC, has defeated his main challengers, Atiku Abubakar of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and Peter Obi of Labour Party across 10 local governments areas of Ekiti in the presidential election conducted on Saturday. Tinubu won massively in the result declared by Prof Akeem …
Read More »#NigeriaElections2023: Kano NNPP gov candidate wins polling unit for Kwankwaso
The Kano State governorship candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, Abba Kabir Yusuf, has won his polling unit for the party’s presidential candidate, Rabiu Kwankwaso in Saturday’s election. At the Balabe Haladu polling unit, Kwankwaso scored 110 votes against Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress, who got …
Read More »#NigeriaElections2023: 73-year-old woman, two others arrested with 20 PVCs in Benin
One of the suspects with the recovered PVCs The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested a 73-year-old woman, Comfort Muoneke, for been in possession of 20 Permanent Voter Cards. Two of her accomplice, Afekhana Esther and Segun Osaimokhai were also arrested. The EFCC in a statement on its …
Read More »Collation of results begin today as killings, BVAS, ballot snatching mar polls
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it will commence the collation of 2023 presidential and parliamentary elections on Sunday at midday. The INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, announced this at a news conference on the 2023 general elections on Saturday in Abuja. “I will like to invite you …
Read More »Obi floors Atiku in Delta deputy governor’s polling unit
Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), defeated the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, at the polling unit of the Delta State deputy governor, Deacon Kingsley Otuaro in the Saturday Presidential and National Assembly elections. Ifeanyi Okowa, Delta State governor is the vice presidential candidate …
Read More »INEC Suspends election in 141 polling units in Bayelsa
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has suspended elections in 141 polling units of Bayelsa state on account of violence. Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, INEC chairman, said the exercise was postponed in the affected polling units because the voting process was disrupted. The INEC chairman spoke on Saturday while briefing journalists …
Read More »Kogi East boils, ballot boxes snatched as INEC cancels 7 polling units
– As soldiers gun down ballot thief The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has cancelled the voting process in seven polling units of Kogi East senatorial district, amid widespread violence. Two polling units were cancelled in Anyigba while the other five were in the Omala community of the state. The …
Read More »Just in: Peter Obi wins polling unit close to Tinubu’s voting point in Lagos
Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi has won in one of the polling units close to his All Progressives Congress (APC) counterpart, Bola Tinubu voted. While Obi had nine votes at polling unit 052, Ward 3, Alausa, Ikeja, Tinubu came a distant second with eight votes. A total …
Read More »Ink donated by voters to avoid delay at polling unit
…says it is a violence free voting exercise …Complains about identifying party logo as hitch for elderly people In the early hours of Saturday, within the Abuja metropolis, Kubwa, which had not less than six polling unit, Voters were seen donating ink to avoid delay while voting. The Kubwa …
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