The Independent National Electoral Commission on Friday announced the relocation of polling units in Buni Yadi, Yobe State to the state capital, Damaturu, over fears that the Boko Haram insurgents could strike
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The Chief of Army, Nigerian Army, Lieutenant General Tukur Yusufu Buratai, on Friday added another feather to his well decorated cap as he was presented with African Leadership Award at the 7th Edition of the African Leadership Magazine Persons of the Year Award at the Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa.
This is coming a week after the exercise was rescheduled by the Independent National Electoral Commission in the wee hours of the election day on February 16, 2019.
Former Chief of Defence Staff, Air Vice Marshal, Alex Badeh (retd), may have been buried, but operatives of the Inspector-General of Police Special Intelligence Response team, who have been investigating the circumstances surrounding his death, have resolutely refused to close the case file.
The Peoples Democratic Party in Ekiti State has condemned the invasion of the Afao Ekiti residence of the immediate past Governor of the State, Ayodele Fayose, saying no amount of intimidation can break the will of Nigerians to vote out the All Progressives Congress Government of President Muhammadu Buhari.
A member of the House of Representatives, Abdulmumin Jibrin, who was arrested in connection with attack on Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso, was released on bail on Friday.
The Independent National Electoral Commission has said it does not recognise the candidates of the All Progressives Congress in Cross Rivers States for the rescheduled general elections taking place on Saturday.
Police Officers of the Delta State Police Command, led by the Commissioner, Adeyinka B. Adeleke, have intercepted a white Hilux with 128 pieces of explosives and five pieces of electric detonators.
The Independent National Electoral Commission has assured Nigerians and the international community that it has concluded arrangements to commence elections by 8. a.m. on Saturday.
According to available information, the accident occurred on Friday in Siun on the Sagamu-Abeokuta Expressway
The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Petroleum (Downstream), Senator Kabiru Garba Marafa (APC, Zamfara), has appealed to his teeming supporters to accept Friday’s decision by the Independent National Electoral Commission to accept candidates on the platform of the All Progressives Congress in Zamfara State for the general elections beginning on Saturday.
The Kwara State Police Command has given reasons for the arrest of the representative of Kwara South Senatorial District and Peoples Democratic Party candidate for the same position in Saturday’s general elections, Senator Rafiu Ibrahim.
The Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, has harkened to the plea of the President of the Theatre Arts and Movie Practitioners Association of Nigeria, Otunba Bolaji Amusan, by directing that Babatunde Omidina, popularly known as Baba Suwe, to immediately be taken to the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, idi Arabia for first class medical attention and treatment.
The Independent National Electoral Commission has moved the polling units in Buni Yadi area of Yobe State over fear of Boko Haram attack.
The Independent National Electoral Commission has agreed to include the candidates of the All Progressives Congress in Zamfara State into ballot papers for the general elections.
The President said this in an early morning broadcast on Friday on the elections
The broadcast was made on Friday morning
The Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Indigenous People of Biafra, Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra and Alaigbo Development Foundation have renewed their vow to vote for the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, and his running mate, Peter Obi.
The Commissioner, Kaduna State Police Command, Ahmad Abdulrahman, said Governor Nasir el-Rufai lied in his account of the killings that took place in Kajuru Local Government Area of the state earlier in the month.
Last week, when I described the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Mahmood Yakubu, as one of the most frequently executed men on social media, I had no idea what was coming.