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The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said Nigeria will be witnessing severe flooding this year as indicated by predictions from relevant agencies. Mr Mustapha Ahmed, the Director-General, NEMA, predicted on Wednesday during a two-day Experts’ Technical Meeting on 2023 Climate-Related ...

  Akwa Ibom State High Court sitting in Uyo has sentenced a Prophet, Anwana Peter Essien, to 21 years in prison for r3ping his 10-year-old stepdaughter. The 37-year-old Prophet, a native of Afaha Ise in Ibiono Ibom Local government area, ...

  The vice presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed, Wednesday, vowed to reclaim the party’s mandate, noting that he and the LP candidate, Peter Obi, won the election. He made this known in a statement he ...

  The Chief Magistrates’ Court III in Bauchi has remanded the publisher of a Bauchi-based investigative online newspaper, Wikki Times, Haruna Mohammed, in correctional custody for allegedly inciting public disturbance and blackmailing of the state governor, Bala Mohammed. The police ...

  The police in Kano have arraigned Al-Hassan Ado Doguwa, the lawmaker representing Doguwa/Tundun Wada Federal Constituency, in connection with the killings in his constituency during the last Saturday’s elections. Doguwa was arrested on Tuesday at Malam Aminu Kano International ...

  Charly Boy, has called on Nigerian youths to be calm and not to overreact to the “annoying” 2023 election results declared by INEC. Mr Oputa, who reacted to the gathering of some youths at the Unity Fountain, said the ...

  The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has presented the Certificate of Return to the President-elect, Bola Tinubu and his running mate, Kashim Shettima. INEC National Chairman, Yakubu Mahmood presented the certificate of return to Tinubu and Shettima in Abuja ...

  APC ha sbegan a door to door campaign after Peter Obi’s Labour Party defeated them in the just concluded presidential election. The door to door campaign is headed by Mobolaji Ogunlende, the Special Adviser to Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu on ...

A Zambian court has sentenced a man to 10 years imprisonment for sleeping with a mentally challenged woman four years ago. Edwin Sakala, was arrested in March 2019 after residents exposed him for having carnal knowledge of a mentally ill ...

  Bola Tinubu, the politician long heralded as the “father of modern Lagos”, has won a tight race to succeed Muhammadu Buhari as the next president of Nigeria. Tinubu, “having satisfied the requirements of the law, is hereby declared the ...

  Gunmen, suspected to be political thugs, have shot dead the chairperson of Ezza North Traditional Rulers Council in Ebonyi State. The victim, Igbokwe Ewa, was attacked and killed in his residence on Monday evening. The Commissioner for Information in ...

  The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC has declared the Labour Party, LP presidential candidate, Mr Peter Obi, the winner of Saturday’s Presidential election in Anambra State. Obi swept all the 21 local government areas in the state by a ...

  Datti Baba-Ahmed and Ifeanyi Okowa, vice-presidential candidates of the Labour Party (LP) and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), have asked the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to cancel the general election. Speaking on Tuesday at a media briefing held at ...

  Youths from the 36 states of the federation have warned against any attempt to arrest the senior Pastor of Dunamis International Gospel Centre, Paul Enenche, over his recent comments on the presidential election. The All Progressives Congress, APC, Presidential ...

  The 67-year-old, who has not yet been named, had picked up the abandoned dog from a field near the city of Valencia on Spain’s southeastern coast. She had been in possession of the dog for just a few days ...

  A women group under the auspices of ‘Angry Nigerian Women’ on Tuesday stormed the main road leading to the International Conference Centre venue for the national collation of the presidential election results over alleged irregularities. The women numbering about ...

  Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu the Presidential Candidate of the All Progressives Congress in last Saturday’s general elections, has won the keenly contest polls in Rivers State. The APC flagbearer also swept Niger and Benue states, garnering massive votes in ...

  The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) police command has arrested a number of suspects who are believed to be involved in the manipulation of the Bimordial Voters Accreditation System (BVAS). The suspects were apprehended by the police in a sting ...

  Former President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday led representatives of the ECOWAS Election Monitoring Team to visit Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, presidential candidate of the APC. Jonathan came with former President of Ghana, John Mahama during the visit in Abuja. ...

  Peter Obi, the Labour Party presidential candidate, has defeated other presidential candidates in Cross River State. Obi won the election with 179,917 votes. The state collation officer, Professor Akpofure Rim-Rukeh, declared the results at the state collation centre in Calabar Tuesday ...

  Peter Obi of the Labour Party has won the presidential election conducted by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Delta State last Saturday. In the result announced by INEC early Tuesday, Obi scored 341,866 to floor closest challengers. ...

  The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared the Yobe South Senatorial District election inconclusive. The Returning Officer, Shettima Saidu of Federal University Gashua, Yobe, made the declaration in Potiskum. He said the leading candidates, Ibrahim Bomoi of the ...

  The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, has been declared the winner of Saturday’s presidential election in Benue State. Tinubu polled 310,468 to outpace Peter Obi of the Labour Party who scored 308,372 votes. Also, Atiku ...

  The Kano State Police Command on Monday confirmed the death of two persons when thugs set ablaze campaign office of New Nigeria Peoples Party in Tudun Wada Local Government Area of the state on Sunday. The command’s Public Relations ...

  The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, has won the presidential election in Zamfara State. Tinubu polled 298,396 votes to win the state. The collation officer for the Zamfara State presidential election, Prof. Kashim Shehu, announced ...