Votes are about now being sorted out following the conclusion of Voting in all the polling units in Bayelsa, Imo and Kogi states where governorship elections took place Saturday Voting was expected to end by 2pm but extended beyond that time because of late arrival of INEC officials. According a journalist who monitored the exercise,…
An INEC official kidnapped by some unknown persons on the eve of the governorship election in Bayelsa state has been released. The official whose name was not disclosed was kidnapped on his way to Sagbama. He was picked up by his abductors as he waited for a boat to ferry him to Sagbama his duty…
Four months after The Chief a section of the Ekiti state high court complex collapsed on the Chief Judge, of Ekiti State, Justice Oyewole Adeyeye, he is set to resume work. Justice Adeyeye was still in his chamber at the time of the collapse on Wednesday, July 12. Months after, the President of the Nigerian…
It’s D- day today Saturday November 11, as a little over five million voters in the three states of Bayelsa, Imo and Kogi will file out to vote in the off-cycle governorship election in the states. In the three states, the Independent National Electoral Commission said 5,169,692 voters collected their permanent voter cards out of…
Just hours to the commencement of the off- cycle election in Bayelsa, Imo and Kogi states, thee factional leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Simon Ekpa has threatened to disrupt the exercise in the South East. In a post on his X handle, Ekpa said none of the Biafrans will participate in the election….
The National Industrial Court sitting in Abuja has stopped organized and their affiliates from embarking on any strike or industrial action. The unions had fixed Tuesday November 14 as date for a total nationwide strike after an extraordinary National Executive Council meeting in Abuja The unions decision is labour’s reaction to the alleged assault on…
Hundreds of protesting women on Thursday stormed Bayelsa state police command in Yenagoa demanding the resignation of the state Commissioner of Police Tolani Alausa. The protesting women carrying placard with different inscriptions says the removal of the police commissioner will ensure the neutrality of the police during this weekend’s governorship election in the state The…
All is now set for this weekend’s off cycle election in Bayelsa, Imo and Kogi states. Electoral umpire INEC has since begun the distribution of sensitive and non-sensitive materials for the exercise. The electoral body also distributed life jackets across the eight local government areas of Bayelsa State where the governorship election will be held….
The Edo State Police Command says it has arrested the husband of Mrs Toluige Olokoobi, mother of “mummy calm down” boy, days after news broke that she committed suicide. Olokoobi was the mother to Oreofeoluwa Lawal-Babalola, the little boy whose video went viral after begging his mother with “Mummy, calm down” in 2020. Oreofeoluwa became…
Former world number one female tennis player, Naomi Osaka is expected to return to tennis at the Brisbane International, six months after giving birth. The four-time Grand Slam champion recently took a break to give birth to her daughter Shai in July. The Brisbane tournament begins on December 31 and runs through to January 7,…
