A candidate who died of coronavirus in October , David Andahl , has won a legislative seat in North Dakota. New York Times and Washington Post reported that Andahl and Dave Nehring were elected to represent North Dakota’ s eighth state house district . Official results showed that Andahl won 36 per cent of the […]
Electronic voting may begin in Nigeria from Anambra gubernatorial poll in 2021, chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Prof Mahmood Yakubu has stated. Yakubu, who was speaking after a budget defence session before the Aisha Dukku- headed House Committee on Electoral Matters, told reporters about 40 companies have demonstrated e-voting to the commission. […]
Governor Aminu Masari of Katsina State on Wednesday reiterated his charge on the security agencies to be ruthless with bandits terrorizing the state as well as neighbouring Kaduna and Zamfara States . He made the declaration when heads of security agencies in Katsina brought two repentant bandit commanders from Illela village in Safana Local Government […]
The Federal Executive Council on Wednesday approved N 87. 538bn for the construction of some roads in parts of the country. The amount approved included the cost variation for two existing road contracts. The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory , Muhammed Bello; and the Minister of Works and Housing , Babatunde Fashola, disclosed these […]
Nigerian- American, Oye Owolewa , has been elected as a shadow member of the United States House of Representatives from the District of Columbia. According to election results on the website of the District of Columbia Board of Elections on Wednesday morning, Owolewa polled 81. 59% of the votes , which represents 164, 026 votes […]
John Zogby, renowned public opinion pollster and founder of Zogby Strategies, says there are over 20 million votes yet to be counted in the 2020 US presidential race. As of 4:30pm Nigerian time, over 130 million votes have been counted for either of both leading candidates President Donald Trump and former vice-president Joe Biden. Speaking […]
A 35-year-old Nigerian Esther Agbaje has been elected into the Minnesota House of Representatives in Tuesday’s US general elections. Agbaje will represent District 59B in the 134-member House on the platform of the US Democratic Party. The Nigerian polled 17,396 votes or 74.7 per cent of the total ballots cast. She defeated her closest rival […]
Ministers from the south-west who were directed to relocate to their home states to douse the tension created by the #ENDSARS protests have presented their report to the federal executive council (FEC). In the report presented earlier on Wednesday, they demanded a thorough investigation into the Lekki toll plaza shooting incident, particularly the role of […]
Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Wednesday signed an executive order for the rebuilding of Lagos in the aftermath of #EndSARS violence that led to wanton destruction of public and private properties in the State. The governor also set up an 8-member Board for the new Lagos State Rebuilding Trust Fund Committee (LRTFC) to not only oversee […]
The Imo State Judicial Commission of Inquiry into Police Brutality and related matters Tuesday commenced its seating in Owerri, the Imo State capital. The Commission also lamented the response from the residents of the state which it stated has been rather poor. Addressing the court, the Chairman of the Panel, Justice Florence Duruoha-Igwe (Rtd) noted […]
