The New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to stop the ongoing collation of 2023 presidential election results and cancel the exercise for a fresh one. The NNPP, which said its members were disenfranchised with their logo blurred on the ballot paper, also …

By Emmanuel Elebeke The Federal Government has urged former President Olusegun Obasanjo not to truncate the 2023 General Elections with his inciting, self-serving and provocative letter on the elections. In a statement in Abuja on Tuesday, the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said what the former President …

Mahmood Yakubu, INEC chairman The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has suspended Saturday’s elections for the Senate and Port Harcourt Federal Constituency II in Port Harcourt City Local Government Area (PHALGA) in Rivers State. INEC Resident Electoral Officer (REC) in Rivers, Johnson Sinikiem, announced the suspension Tuesday. The decision followed …

  Civil rights advocacy group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to give Nigerians a credible election in order to avoid protests and violence. National Coordinator, HURIWA, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko, made the call in a statement obtained by Vanguard in Abuja …

Basketmouth Nigerian comedian, Bright Okpocha aka Basketmouth, has explained why he did not vote in Saturday’s elections. The comedian gave his reasons via his Instagram account on Monday. He stated that he had shows outside of Nigeria planned for a year in advance to secure a good venue and that …

Dele Alake The All Progressives Congress (APC) has condemned the actions of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the Labour Party (LP), calling for the cancellation of the Presidential and National Assembly elections held on Saturday. The ruling party made this call on Tuesday during a press conference to react …

Yakubu Mahmood The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has noted that parties aggrieved with the results of the presidential election should approach the court. On Monday, Dino Melaye, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) agent, and other party agents, staged a walkout of the national collation centre in Abuja over INEC’s delay …

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 …

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 …

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 …