THE Kano State Police Command on Sunday confirmed the arrest of three suspects who razed some of the Independent National Electoral Commission offices in the Takai Local Government Area of the state where the Presidential and National Assembly elections results were collated. Police It was gathered that the suspects arrived …

The Presidential Candidate of the New Nigerian Peoples Party, Senator Rabi’u Kwankwaso is ahead of Atiku and Tinubu with 43,625 votes in the seven local government areas of Kano State that have so far been declared at the state collation centre of the Independent National Electoral Commission. With 69,997, Tinubu, …

DIRECTOR-General of the Labour Party, LP, Presidential Campaign Council, Akin Osuntokun, lost his native local government on Saturday. The ruling All Progressive Congress, APC, won the presidential election resoundingly in Ekiti West. The APC presidential candidate Bola Tinubu defeated his LP counterpart Peter Obi, who came third. In results declared …

THE Nigeria Police Force has alerted of the circulation of fake election results on social media and news platforms. Force Public Relations Officer, CSP Muyiwa Adejobi said this is contrary to the policy and guidelines of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. The police noted that it perceived the trend …

THE Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, won with 104 votes to defeat Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress at the polling unit 015, Kurumbo Ward B of Shendam Local Government Area of Director-General of Tinubu Campaign Organisation and Governor of Plateau State, Simon Lalong. Lalong, who is also …

THE Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has threatened to cancel the election results of crisis-ridden areas during the presidential and NASS election in Kogi State. Dr Hale Longpet, Kogi Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), sounded the warning while reacting to the crises that erupted in some local government areas. He spoke …

Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission monitoring the presidential and National Assembly polls arrested some suspected vote-buyers in Benue State on Saturday. A lecturer with the Sarwuan Tarka University (formerly known as the University of Agriculture), Makurdi, Dr. Cletus Tyokyaa was arrested at the RCM Polling Unit in …

THE Nigeria Police Force said it has observed the spreading or circulation of alleged/fake election results on social media and other news platforms, which is contrary to the policy and guidelines of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Newsextra24 reports. The spokesperson for the NPF, Olumuyiwa Adejobi, revealed in a statement on …

TRGEDY struck in Maiduguri in the early hours of Sunday morning, February 26, when fire razed large sections of the popular Monday Market, the largest market in Borno State. The cause of the fire was not immediately known, but eyewitnesses told The PUNCH that it started between 2:30am and 3am. …

RESCHEDULED presidential and National Assembly elections by the Independent National Electoral Commission for the affected polling units in the four registration areas of the Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa State for Sunday have not started. Our correspondent who went round the polling units in Yenagoa on Sunday observed that …