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Obasanjo demands elections without BVAS cancelled
Nigeria’s former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has directly advised the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to avert trouble by cancelling all elections in the 2023 polls conducted without the biometric identity verification and accreditation system (BVAS). The former president who…
PDP, LP protest ‘massive rigging’
Two of the front runners in the just concluded 2023 presidential polls, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the Labour Party (LP), have preliminarily rejected the results of the elections, pointing at evidences of rigging. Both parties have independently asked…
LP youths demand declaration of Peter Obi elected President
The Acting National Youth Leader of the Labour Party, Prince Kennedy Ahanotu, has demanded the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to officially declare the party’s candidate in the presidential polls, Mr Peter Obi, winner. Prince Ahanotu stated in a media…
Election is not war, Fayemi tells Nigerians to ‘calm down’
Erstwhile governor of Ekiti State and President of the Forum of Regions of Africa (FORAF), Dr. Kayode Fayemi, has urged Nigerians to exercise utmost restraint and patience in the aftermath of the Presidential election. In a statement issued on his…
Lagos markets shut, as Tinubu’s thugs wreak havoc on Igbo traders
Police weak on response, recant early denial Igbo traders have come under violent attacks by political party thugs said to belong to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) across markets in Lagos following earlier Monday’s declaration of the Presidential candidate…
National elections roll off shakily, improve steadily
*Igbos barred at Lagos polling units Sopuruchi Onwuka The much awaited elections into national political leadership positions took off as planned Saturday morning with reports of logistics glitches across the states and missing logo of the Labour Party in ballot…
Business in Lagos take risk measures against election violence
Following threats of violence on non indigenes in some areas of Lagos Island over their preferred candidates in tomorrow’s polls, businesses in the areas have started taking precautions to prevent attacks from people believed to be behind the viral voice…
PDP solidifies Igwe as Abia Deputy Governorship candidate
Sopuruchi Onwuka The inner tussle for the position of the running mate for the PDP governorship candidature for Abia State has come to expected conclusion that the Hon Member representing Umunneochi constituency in the House of Assembly, Barr Okey Igwe…
New AU chief wants Africa’s debt cancelled
UN’s Scribe demands peace as ACFTA falters Some 339 million Africans in urgent need Sopuruchi Onwuka Some 339 million of Africa’s 1.4 billion population are in acute need of humanitarian aid as tribes are locked in mortal wars and governments…
Implosion in Abia PDP as Igwe’s camp rises against substitution
Sopuruchi Onwuka Anger over the insensitivity of some factions of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Abia State to sideline initial Deputy Governorship candidate in the upcoming March elections may have finally sealed the chances of the party in returning…
