In a statement issued in Lagos on Sunday by its Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said the call for total cancellation supersedes its early call for a rerun in four local government areas and is based on the report it received from its agents as well as from local and foreign observers during the poll
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A soldier, however, lost his life during the shootout with the insurgents in Gwoza, Borno State, while three others were wounded
Kukah, who was a guest speaker at the second NGF retreat holding in Sokoto, made the call on Saturday, saying it was imperative for the forum to remain united
In some areas, especially those labelled as strongholds of the All Progressives Congress, which is fielding Dr. Chris Ngige for the election, materials did not arrive early
Nigeria will now head into their fifth World Cup campaign looking to better their best previous finish, having twice made the round of 16, in 1994 and again in 1998, while their outings in 2002 and 2010 ended at the group stage
Premium Times on the 12th of November, published startling findings of a $7 billion hole in Nigeria’s oil revenue retrieval, with the NNPC implicated along with Swiss oil dealers
In a statement issued from the party’s election situation room in Lagos on Saturday by its Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party also said early reports from the state indicate a pattern of harassment of its members and the violation of the Independent National Electoral Commission guidelines, among others, asking Nigerians to take note
A statement on Friday by the spokesman of the 7 Division, Lieutenant Colonel Muhammad Dole, said the encounter with the insurgents took place along the Rimanti-Allagarno Road in Damboa Local Government Area of Borno State
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested two sons of Governor Sule Lamido of Jigawa State for allegedly laundering…
In a statement on his behalf by his spokesperson, Dr. Reuben Abati, Jonathan described the claim by Lamido as “grossly irresponsible”
The statement said: “Those who were arrested by the increasingly partisan police are election monitors from Osun, who are members of the Justice and Equality Organization, an INEC-accredited election monitoring NGO. With INEC having trained key officials of the accredited election monitoring NGOs, those trained are now training their members in readiness for the election. Those trained by INEC are in Owerri
Besides Ogidigben, other communities to benefit from the project include Itsekiri, Ijaw in Delta State and and Ilaje in the neighbouring Ondo State
The duo were moved to the Abuja office of the EFCC on Friday morning
Umar, a member of the dreaded sect, Boko Haram, bombed the plaza in April 2012
Rising from a meeting of what it called the founding fathers and elders at the Shehu Musa Yar’adua Centre, Abuja, the group accused the National Chairman of the PDM, Bashir Ibrahim Yusuf, of secretly registering the movement as a political party without the knowledge and approval of the founding fathers
One of the suspects, Salawo Ayodele, denied the alleged intent to rig the Anambra State election
Ngama made this known at a news briefing at the end of the Federation Accounts Allocation Committee meeting for October
According to Tutare, despite huge sums already committed into the reform programme, there is nothing to show for it
“Presently, 24,988 of them are receiving free anti-retroviral drugs from the various centres opened by the government
Abubakar also warned all security details not to accompany their principals to the polling booths and collation centres during the election