A coalition of opposition parties namely the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the Labour Party (LP) and the African Democratic Congress (ADC), has declared a vote of no confidence on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Chairman, Professor Yakubu Mahmood. The three parties made their views known today at a press conference in Abuja. They said by the conduct and reaction ...

…as individuals, businesses lament acute hardship The strike by all affiliates of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) in Abia State over nonpayment of the state public servants’ salaries and pensions has thrown the entire state into darkness. The strike started last Monday following the directive dated February 21, 2023, by the NLC leadership and “Commencement of Trade Union Actions against ...

By Raymond Ozoji, Awka Labour Party (LP) has sweept Anambra State presidential election with a total of five hundred and eighty-four thousand, six hundred and twenty-one (584,621) valid votes cast to beat Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, the second runner up with a total number of nine thousand and thirty six (9036) votes. The All Progressives Congress came third with a ...

•Tinubu polls 4.1m, Atiku 3m, Obi 1.6m in 14 states •APC wins in Ekiti, Kwara, Ondo, Oyo, Ogun, JIgawa •PDP in Osun, Yobe, Gombe, Adamawa, Katsina •LP in Lagos, Enugu, Nasarawa The Presidential candidates of the ruling All Progressives Congress; main opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP; and Labour Party, were locked in a tight race, last night as results of ...

By Raymond Ozoji, Awka Professor Lilian Obiageli Orogbu, winner of Awka-North and South federal constituency election, has expressed profound gratitude to God for making it practically impossible for opposition elements to falsify results of the election despite being overwhelmingly voted for by the people of Awka-North and South. Orogbu, who disclosed this at a brief get-together at Bon Hotel Awka, ...

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has lent his voice against the poor conduct of the general election held last Saturday, February 25, 2023. In a letter released in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital on Monday, Obasanjo specifically called on President Muhammadu Buhari to avert what he called the looming danger by ordering cancellation of election results in all elections that do ...

…wins Ihiala Federal Constituency Landslide By Raymond Ozoji, Awka The Deputy Speaker of the 7th Legislature of Anambra state, Rt. Hon. Dr. Paschal Arinzechukwu Agbodike, has humbled the incumbent federal lawmaker representing Ihiala federal constituency in the constituency election preparatory to the 10th national assembly. Declaring the results on Monday at the Ihiala local government headquarters INEC collation centre, the ...

A group, the South-West Security Think Tank Forum has called for calm and enjoins all citizens to eschew violence as the election results are being released. The Forum is appealing and impressing on all aggrieved youths in particular that elections are won and lost based on the aggregate of votes from all over the country and not in a few ...

Angered by the massive irregularities that trailed the presidential election of February 25, 2023, the Vice-Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Dr. Yusuf Datti-Ahmed, has been talking tough. In one of his posts on Facebook on Monday, February 27, Datti Baba-Ahmed said, “Sending soldiers to get ready because you know what you all have planned is a form of tyranny ...

The Labour Party, (LP) has rejected the ongoing collation and announcement of the presidential election results in Abuja. At a world press conference addressed today in Abuja by the Labour Party PCC DG Balogun Akin Osuntokun, the party said it was doing so because INEC guidelines on the conduct of the elections were extensively breached and INEC has evidently been very ...