The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has declared Abubakar Sadiku-Ohere of the All Progressive Congress, APC, as winner of the February 25 election for Kogi Central Senatorial District. Sadiku-Ohere beat Mrs Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to emerge winner of the keenly contested election. Prof. …
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About 19 suspects that allegedly looted a rice truck on Sunday in Kano have been apprehended by operatives of the Kano State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC. DSC Ibrahim Idris-Abdullahi, the Command’s Public Relations Officer, in a statement, stated that the suspects attacked the truck …
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Hours after Nigerians lamented a picture of a female uploaded by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, as a result in the portal, the Commission is yet to delete it. Newsextra24 checks found that the picture is still on the INEC result portal. The upload was done in Ado Ekiti …
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The state collation officer for the presidential election in Rivers State, Prof Charles Adias, has adjourned the collation of Saturday’s election results. Adias adjourned the collation of results in the state over alleged threat to his life by unnamed party supporters. The Vice Chancellor of the Federal University, Otueke, announced …
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Two candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Kwara State who lost the last Saturday National Assembly election, have rejected the results of the exercise declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. They are Senator Rafiu Adebayo Ibrahim, who contested for the senatorial seat for Kwara South and …
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Argentina captain, Lionel Messi won this year’s Best FIFA Men’s Player award at a ceremony in Paris on Monday. Messi beat Paris Saint-Germain team-mate Kylian Mbappe and Real Madrid captain, Karim Benzema, to the prize. The 35-year-old won the 2022 World Cup with his country in December, finally getting to …
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Governor Darius Dickson Ishaku of Taraba State has lost the Taraba south senatorial election. Ishaku, who contested last Saturday’s National Assembly election, was defeated by the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC). The governor, it would be recalled, had also lost his polling unit to the Presidential candidate of …
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Hadi Sirika, Minister of Aviation, has urged the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to write his acceptance speech immediately as the ‘president elect’. According to Sirika, Tinubu should also make the acceptance speech short so that his supporters can sleep early tonight. The …
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Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, has won the just concluded Presidential Elections in Kano State with the highest votes of 997,279. Bola Ahmad Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress, APC, came second with 517,341, while Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP, polled 131,716 …
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The winners of the 2022 Best FIFA Awards were announced on Monday night. Lionel Messi and Alexia Putellas went home with the top two individual awards at the ceremony in Paris. Messi was named Men’s player of 2022, ahead of his Paris Saint-Germain team-mate Kylian Mbappe and Real Madrid striker …
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