Month: April 2023
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Moment INEC Declares Fintiri as Winner of Adamawa Guber Poll (Video)
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Ahmadu Fintiri, has emerged winner of the supplementary governorship election in Adamawa State. As announced by Professor Mohammed Mele the state Returning Officer, Fintiri who is the incumbent governor of the state scored a total of 430, 861 votes to defeat the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC,…
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INEC Reacts To Claim Peter Obi, not Tinubu Wins Rivers State Presidential Election
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has broken its silence over a trending report making the rounds on various social media media platforms suggesting that the candidate of the Labour Party (LP) Peter Obi, won the presidential election in Rivers State. Recall that the electoral umpire had announced that the presidential candidate of the All…
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FG Begins Registration of Unemployed Youths
The Federal Government, through the National Directorate of Employment, NDE, yesterday, began the registration of unemployed persons in the 20 local government areas of Lagos State. NDE state office in Lagos, which announced the development, said the exercise will hold between April 17 and April 28, 2023, at the directorate’s office at 7, Barikisu Iyede…
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JAMB Extends DE Registration Deadline
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has extended the ongoing Direct Entry registration earlier scheduled to end on Thursday, April 20, 2023, by one week. The extension which was announced, Monday, shortly after the board’s management meeting, is “partly to give all holders of Cambridge A/Level Certificates, who were unable to register for the…
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Lawmaker Sends Message To Atiku, Obi Over May 29 Swearing-in of Tinubu as Nigeria’s President
Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Judiciary, Hon. Onofiok Luke has appealed to Nigerians not satisfied with the outcome of the 2023 presidential election to wait for the eventual pronouncements of the courts but must allow the swearing of the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu to hold on May 29. Luke who spoke to Journalists…
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Subsidy Removal: 10 Million Nigerian Households To Get N5000 for 6-month
Daily Trust The federal government will pay N5,000 to 10 million households for six months as palliative for removing petrol subsidy after June. The amount to be disburses is N50 billion per month and reaches N300bn with $800m (N371.6bn at CBN N464/$1 rate) World Bank loan to fund the project. The Minister of Finance, Budget,…
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Just In: INEC reverses Binani’s declaration as Adamawa Governor-elect
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has reversed the illegal declaration of Aisha Binani winner of the Adamawa State governorship election by the resident electoral commissioner. Although Section 64 and 65 Electoral Act 2022 as well as Part 3 INEC guidelines vest the power of declaration on returning officer, Mr Ari usurped the power and…
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Flash: INEC Declares Binani as Winner of Adamawa Guber Poll
Vanguard News The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Sunday morning declared Senator Aishatu Dahiru Binani the winner of the Adamawa governorship election. The Resident Electoral Commissioner for the state, Barrister Hudu Yunusa just made the declaration following the supplementary election held Saturday. Full details later
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IReV ‘Shows’ Peter Obi, not Tinubu Wins Rivers State Presidential Election
Premium Times The candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, won the 25 February presidential election in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State, South-south Nigeria, according to results uploaded on the INEC Results Viewing Portal (IReV). Mr Obi’s haul of votes in the area implies he, and not Bola Tinubu of the All…
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Tinubu, Shettima object to Obi’s votes in 630 Polling Units in Akwa-Ibom, Anambra, Two Others
The Nation Newspaper President-Elect Bola Tinubu and Vice President-elect Kashim Shettima are contesting the votes declared for the Labour Party (LP) and its presidential candidate, Peter Obi, in 630 polling units in Akwa-Ibom, Anambra, Enugu and Imo states. Their objection to the votes is premised on alleged irregularities recorded in the affected polling units. “An…