Category: News
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What To Do To Avoid Incessant Strike in Varsities – VC Tells President-elect, Tinubu
The vice-chancellor of Federal University, Oye-Ekiti (FUOYE), Abayomi Fasina has called on Bola Tinubu, the president-elect, to prioritise university autonomy when he assumes office. NAN reports that the VC spoke during the fourth matriculation ceremony for postgraduate students of the university in Oye-Ekiti on Tuesday. Fasina said a major challenge facing public universities in Nigeria…
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Moment 82-year-old Muslim Man Set Ablaze While Returning From UK Mosque (Video)
The authorities in the United Kingdom have arrested a suspect for allegedly setting an 82-year-old Muslim worshipper on fire as he walked home from the Dudley Road Mosque in the Edgbaston area of Birmingham. According to CNN, the elderly man was attacked by 7:00 pm on Monday, adding that the West Midlands police said the…
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Just In: Incumbent Zamfara Governor Loses Guber Poll To PDP’s Candidate
Channels TV In what may be described as the biggest upset of the general elections, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate Dauda Lawal has unseated Zamfara State Governor Bello Matawalle. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared Lawal the governor-elect with a total of 377,726 votes, after he defeated Matawalle of the All Progressives Congress…
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INEC declares APC’s Sani Kaduna Gov-Elect
The State Collation Officer for Gubernatorial Election (SCOGE), Prof. Lawal Suleiman Bilbis said Sani polled 730,002 votes while Mohammed Isa Ashiru of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) scored 719,196 votes. He gave the total votes scored by the political parties in the states as follows:APC: 730,002, LP: 58,283, NNPP: 21,405 and PDP: 719,196. The People’s…
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Ramadan: Sultan Sends Message To Nigerian Muslims
The Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), under the leadership of its President-General and Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III, has urged the Muslims across the country to look out this year’s Ramadan after sunset on Wednesday. The Director of Administration of the council, Arc. Zubairu Haruna Usman-Ugwu, said this in a…
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INEC Speaks On Adamawa Governorship Election Results
The candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state, Senator Aishatu Dahiru famously known as Binani scored 390, 275 while the incumbent, Governor Ahmadu Fintiri, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, polled 421,524. However, INEC declared the election inconclusive due to the margin of votes. So far, the results of 20 governorship polls…
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APC Guber Candidate Wins Benue Governorship Poll
The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Hyacinth Alia, has won the Benue state governorship election. Ali, a reverend father, garnered 473,933 votes to defeat Titus Uba, the candidate of the Peoples Democracy Party (PDP), who polled 223,913 votes, to be declared the winner on Monday. Herman Hembe of the Labour Party (LP)…
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BREAKING: Policemen shot dead at INEC Collation Centre
Two policemen were killed and two others sustained injuries in a clash between Soldiers and police officers in Jalingo, Taraba state capital, on Monday. Witnesses said a minor disagreement between soldiers and policemen guarding INEC headquarters in the state snowballed into a crisis that lasted nearly an hour. According to sources, soldiers, who sent policemen…
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INEC Declares NNPP’s Kabir as Kano Governor-elect
The battle for the political control of Kano State in Nigeria’s North-West geopolitical zone between the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) has been settled with the declaration of NNPP’s Yusuf Kabir as the governor-elect. Kabir was declared the winner of the keenly contested March 18 poll by the Independent…
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19 Suspected Votes-buyers Arrested in Kwara
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Saturday in Ilorin paraded 19 suspected vote buyers arrested during the Governorship and House of Assembly elections in the state. The Acting Zonal Head of EFCC, Ilorin Zonal Office, Michael Nzekwe, said that the suspects were paraded at the commission’s Head office located at GRA, Ilorin. Nzekwe…