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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 …

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 …

  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 …

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 …

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 …

– 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 …

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 …

…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 …

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has issued a new rule shaking up the banking industry, with many of the chairmen affected.  The rule says bank executive directors (EDs), deputy managing directors (DMDs), managing directors (MDs), and non-executive directors (NEDs) can only serve a cumulative tenure of 20 years across …