Category: News
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American Varsity Speaks On Alleged Certificate Forgery Against Lagos Labour Party Guber Candidate, Gbadebo
Premium Times An American university, the Massachusetts Institute Technology (MIT), has said the governorship candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in Lagos State, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, attended the school. The management of the school told PREMIUM TIMES on Thursday that Mr Rhodes-Vivour obtained a Master’s Degree in Architecture after studying at the institution between 2005 and…
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Black Thursday: Again, commercial bus driver crushes motorist to death in Lagos
Tragedy struck again in Lagos on Thursday, when an unidentified private car owner was rammed over and killed by a commercial bus driver while driving against traffic popularly called, “One-Way,” around Meiran, area of Lagos. This happened barely few hours after a train in motion around Shogunle area crushed a Lagos State Government staff bus…
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JUST IN: Two feared dead as bus, train collide in Lagos
The Nation Newspaper Two women were on Thursday morning feared killed and several.others injured after a Bus Rapid Transport (BRT) blue line colluded with a train in Lagos. The accident occurred at the PWD railway crossing around 7am. It was gathered that the bus, which was navigating inward Ikeja attempted to cross the railway before…
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Army Recovers 1,671 PVCs, Ballot Papers in Lagos Apartment
Vanguard News Personnel of the 9 Brigade of the Nigerian Army, yesterday, recovered 1,671 Permanent Voters Cards, PVCs, in an apartment in the Olodi-Apapa area of Lagos State. Three persons were subsequently arrested in the apartment, while the prime suspect was said to be on the run. Also recovered in the apartment were ballot papers,…
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INEC Confirms Election Postponement, Gives Reasons
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has confirmed the postponement of the governorship and state elections by a week. Vreporters through Gazette Newspaper had earlier reported that the exercise had been moved from March 11, 2023 to March 18, 2023. Sources in the commission had told this newspaper that more time was needed for the…
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Breaking: INEC Postpones Governorship, State Assembly Elections
The Independent National Electoral Commission has postponed the governorship and state assembly elections till March 18. The exercise was previously scheduled to hold on March 11, but INEC, citing a logistics crisis stemming from BVAS configuration and transportation, said the election could not hold again as scheduled following a meeting of its executives on Wednesday evening.…
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Election: Court Grants Tinubu’s Request
The Presidential Election Petition Court, PEPC, sitting at the Court of Appeal in Abuja, on Wednesday, granted the request of President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu to have access to the sensitive materials used by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, for the presidential election. The court, in a unanimous decision by a three-member panel led…
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Election Results: Peter Obi Sends Message To Supporters Over Protest
The Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, has urged his supporters against protesting on court premises when the presidential election tribunal commences. The Appeal Court will today hear the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) application seeking to set aside earlier order granted to both Obi and Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic…
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Tinubu Seeks Court Order To Inspect Election Materials
The President-Elect, Bola Tinubu is seeking an order by the Court of Appeal to access sensitive materials used by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for the conduct of the February 25 presidential election. His counsel, Akintola Makinde, said he would need to inspect, scan and make photocopies of some of the electoral materials to…
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Labour Party Dissolves Rivers Exco Over ‘Anti-Party, Corruption’
The National Chairman of the Labour Party, Julius Abure has dissolved the party’s State Executive Council in Rivers State for alleged anti-party activities and corruption in the management of party’s funds. Abure, in a statement on Tuesday, said the dissolution is with immediate effect. He said those “who were at the helm of affairs in…