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Peter Obi WINS ALL 17 LGAs In Enugu

  The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi, has been declared the winner of Saturday’s presidential election conducted in Enugu State. Obi polled a total 428,640 votes to defeat other contenders, with the candidate of the Peoples ...

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Tinubu WINS In Ondo State

  The results of the Saturday’s Presidential elections in the eighteen council areas of Ondo State have been announced by INEC. The State Returning Officer for the presidential election and the Vice Chancellor, Federal University , Oye-Ekiti, Professor Abayomi Fashina, ...

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Elon Musk Sacks 200 MORE Twitter Staff

  Twitter has laid off another 200 employees, around 10 percent of its remaining workforce, in the latest round of job cuts since Elon Musk took over last October. The layoffs, announced Saturday, bring Twitter’s workforce down to under 2,000 ...

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Dino Melaye Faults INEC’s Results Presentation

  The collation agent of the Peoples Democratic Party, Dino Melaye, has challenged the method of collation and result announcement by the Independent National Electoral Commission at the National Collation Centre in Abuja, on Monday.   During his protest at ...

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Orji Kalu WINS Senatorial Seat

  The Chief Whip of the Senate and the candidate of the All Progressives Congress for Abia North Senatorial district election, Senator Orji Uzor-Kalu, has been declared the winner of the election by the Independent National Electoral Commission.   According ...

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Atiku Floors Tinubu, Obi In Akwa Ibom

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar has won the presidential election in Akwa Ibom State. The former Vice President secured 214,012 votes to defeat Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress, APC, who polled 160,620 ...

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Tinubu Breaks Silence On Losing Lagos To Obi

  The presidential candidate of the Progressives Congress (APC) , Bola Tinubu, has urged Lagos residents to avoid any act of violence as the results of the presidential election trickle in. Peter Obi, the candidate of the Labour Party (LP), ...

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Ned Nwoko Wins Delta North Senatorial Seat

    Hon Ned Nwoko of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has been declared Senator-elect for Delta North.   The Returning Officer, Dr. Josephine Okeakwa, who declared the result at Oshimili South LGA, said Nwoko polled 92, 514 votes from ...

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Court Tells EKSU Lecturer Sacked Over Alleged S3x Scandal To Return To Class

  The National Industrial Court of Nigeria has ordered the reinstatement of a lecturer of Ekiti State University, Ado Ekiti, Dr Ololade Aduwo, who was dismissed in December 2019 by the university authorities over an alleged s3x scandal involving a ...

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Follow Guidelines Or Cancel Entire Elections, Labour Party Tells INEC

  The Director General, Labour Party Presidential Campaign Council, Akin Osuntokun, has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission to follow the stipulated guidelines of the Electoral Act or cancel the entire election process. Osunkotun made the call during a ...

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2023 Elections: Atiku Wins Home State, Adamawa

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has recorded a comfortable victory in his home state, Adamawa. He defeated his main challengers, Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Peter Obi of the Labour Party by ...

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EFCC Visits OBI’s Home, Polling Unit

  Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission visited the home and polling unit of the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi. The officials, who came in an unmarked white Toyota Hiace bus, arrived at Obi’s ...

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#NigeriaElections2023: ‘Obi Must Win’ INEC Presiding Officer Declares

  A Twitter user, Chidinma Okorie, who is a Presiding Officer with the Independent National Electoral Commission in the ongoing presidential and National Assembly elections has declared that the Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, must win. Miss Okorie with ...

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Nigeria Decides: Obi Defeats Atiku, Tinubu Inside Aso Rock

  Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, on Saturday won in one of the polling units inside the Presidential Villa in Abuja. The polling unit, PU 131, is located opposite Pilot Gate, State House, Abuja. After the voting ...

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Ortom Kicks As EFCC Arrests Campaign Director With N100,000

  The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested the Director of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governorship Campaign Council in Benue State, Dr. Cletus Tyokaa, for being in possession of N100,000 on election day. He was set to ...

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Chioma Akpotha Cries Out As ‘Thugs’ Attack Polling Unit

Chioma Akpotha, has alleged that she was attacked at her polling unit in Eti-Osa LGA, Lagos. The presidential election commenced on Saturday morning with a total of 18 candidates contesting for Nigeria’s highest office. Millions of Nigerians also took to ...

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INEC Cancels Elections At Seven Units In Kogi

  The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has cancelled the voting process in seven polling units in the Kogi East Senatorial District of the state following the disruption of voting by thugs in the affected areas. According to INEC, two ...

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Actress Adunni Ade Cries Out Over Her Inability To Locate Her Polling Unit

  Actress Adunni Ade has cried out over her inability to locate her polling unit ahead of Saturday, February 25 presidential election. In a video she shared on her Instagram page, she wrote; “PLEASE READ BEFORE GIVING RECOMMENDATION! It shouldn’t ...

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Man Jailed In Jos For Insulting Father

  A Magistrates’ Court in Jos on Thursday sentenced a 35-year-old labourer, Fwangmun Danung, to a year imprisonment for insulting and intimidating his father. The News Agency of Nigeria reported that the Magistrate, Mr Tapmwa Gotep, sentenced Danung after he ...

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House Of Reps Candidate Dies Days To Election

  The House of Representatives candidate for the Wudil/Garko federal constituency in Kano State under the platform of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, Kamilu Isa, is dead. Isa, who was a former Assistant Comptroller General of the Nigerian Security and ...

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New Naira: Supreme Court Fixes March 3 For Judgement

  The Supreme Court on Wednesday adjourned judgement in the new naira policy suit to March 3, 2023. With the apex court’s decision, Nigerians, especially consumer and business groups as well as professional and trade unions looking up to the ...

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