Some Political thugs have destroyed electoral materials including the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) machine and other sensitive materials in Omege Ward, Ezza North Local Government Area of the state.The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Omege ward is the polling unit of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA)
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The governorship candidate of the Labour Party for Lagos State, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, has disclosed that an agent of the party in the ongoing governorship poll in the state has been shot dead.The LP candidate, who said the election process is fraught with voters intimidation and suppression, alleged that the Independent
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There was a heated disagreement at the RAC Center in Buguma, Headquarters of Asari-Toru Local Government over the non-presence of INEC EOs and Result Sheets.The Governorship and State House of Assembly elections are not holding in Asari-Toru Local Government Area of Rivers State following the insistence of voters to sight
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Some suspected thugs have attacked Pangpit polling unit in Mikang Local Government Area of Plateau state destroying the voters register and ballot boxes.A voter at the polling unit, Mr. Joshua Kabiru who spoke to a Newspaper confirmed the development, saying that trouble started when some party agents who observed that
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Men of the Imo State Police Command have rescued 19 Ad-Hoc staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, who were kidnapped in the State in the early hours of Saturday.INEC spokesperson in the State, Chinenye Chijioke-Osuji, confirmed the development.She said they were rescued after a distress call, and information
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Nollywood actress, Chioma Akpotha, has cried out in fear after being attacked at her polling unit in Lagos.Akpotha, who did an Instagram live recording, said she was manhandled by the thugs.The actress, who ran to some soldiers, said she was done with accreditation and was about voting when strange looking
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President Muhammadu Buhari has voted in his hometown Daura, Katsina State.Buhari cast his ballot in Kofar Baru Gidan Niyan, ward Sarkin Yarn A, in Daura.Buhari was sworn into office as President on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on May 29, 2015, and he was re-elected after winning
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KANO residents have turned out in large numbers to elect their next governor.Earlier, there was tension in some areas of Kano metropolis but the quick intervention of security operatives calmed the situation.At most polling units in Gwale and Nassarawa LGAs, the crowd was massive.At some polling units sighted in
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Former Deputy Governor of Ekiti State, Otunba Bisi Egbeyemi, has died.Egbeyemi died at the early hours of Saturday at a popular Multisystem Hospital in Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital at 79.Egbeyemi who was born on 8th of May 1944 was a Nigerian lawyer and politician who served as deputy governor
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Emirates, the Dubai-based airline, has announced that around 50% of its revenue is trapped in the country due to foreign exchange restrictions and a lack of access to dollars.The airline in a statement on Friday disclosed that all efforts it has made to resume operations in Nigeria in the last
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