The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Imo State won Saturday’s elections for all 305 Councillorship and 27 Chairmanship positions in the state’s 27 Local Government Areas. The Imo State Independent Electoral Commission (ISIEC) declared the results of the elections at its Collation Centre, located at its headquarters in Owerri, on Sunday. The ISIEC Chairman, […]
Monday 23 September 2024 PDP crisis: Atiku backs anti-Damagum NWC members Tariff hike looms as monthly power subsidy hits N181bn Rivers APC to sanction pro-Wike lawmakers for denying defection LP crisis: Abure faction rules out sanction for Obi N280m assets recovered from drug peddlers in August – NDLEA DSS frees six hunger protesters, to arraign […]
After months of intense politicking in Edo State, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared Monday Okpebholo of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the winner of the keenly contested Saturday 21, 2024 governorship election in the South-South state. Okpebholo, 54, secured 291,667 votes to defeat Asue Ighodalo of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) […]
Monday Okpebholo, candidate of the All Progressive Congress (APC) in the Edo state governorship election, has won Oredo LGA after polling 30,780 votes. Godwin Obaseki, governor of Edo state, is from Oredo LGA. More to follow…
At least 17 fighters of the Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) have drowned while trying to cross a river along the border between Nigeria and the Niger Republic. Zagazola Makama, a counter-insurgency publication focused on the Lake Chad region, noted that the river is between Kafetoa and Bulabulin Gaidam communities in Yobe state. […]
An 80-year-old grandfather, Aremu Shojobi, has been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency with 14 kilogrammes of cannabis. According to the agency, Shojobi confessed to selling illicit drugs for the past 25 years. A statement on Sunday from the agency’s spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, stated that the suspect obtained the drugs from […]
Following the announcements of results of the 2024 Edo State governorship elections at the collation centre in Benin City, the state capital on Sunday, PUNCH Online has aggregated the results of the top three candidates so far. These results, as approved by the Independent National Electoral Commission, are computed for the candidates of the All […]
Kwara State Independent Electoral Commission (KWSIEC) has declared the candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the winners of the local government elections held yesterday in the state. Announcing the results at KWSIEC headquarters in Ilorin in the early hours today, the Chairman of the Commission, Baba Okanla said the APC won all sixteen […]
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has called on President Bola Tinubu to promptly investigate the spending of billions of naira from the Ecological Fund collected by Borno State since 2001, including the N816 million collected by the state between January 2024 and June 2024. In a statement on Sunday signed by SERAP’s Deputy Director, […]
Unconfirmed reports indicate another act of vandalism on the electricity infrastructure along the Damaturu-Maiduguri line. According to sources, the incident occurred on Sunday, marking the third such attack on the electricity towers in the area. The Transmission Company of Nigeria had previously reported similar incidents. In July 2024, TCN announced that vandals had destroyed two […]
