The Independent National Electoral Commission has released its reports on the governorship elections held on March 9 , 2019, in Rivers and Bauchi states. The statements released on the commission’ s Twitter handle was signed by INEC’ s National Commissioner and chairman of its Information and Voter Education Committee , Festus Okoye. Our correspondent had reported that INEC had suspended the governorship and House of Assembly elections in Rivers State till further notice following violence and threat to the lives of voters and the ad - hoc staff of INEC. See the tweets INEC Nigeria @inecnigeria Press Statement On Rivers Governorship Election b:1/View image on TwitterView image on TwitterTwitter https://twitter.com/inecnigeria INEC Nigeria @inecnigeria Press Statement On Bauchi Governorship Election b:2/View image on TwitterView image on Twitter https://twitter.com/inecnigeria

More than two years after losing two children to suspected kidnappers , joy has returned to the family of Fatai and Suliat Azeez , who have welcomed a set of triplets at their home on Aiyepe Avenue in the Okokomaiko area of Lagos State . A crowd of residents and well - wishers thronged the house, on Monday, to catch a glimpse of the babies . The newborns, two girls and a boy , were given birth to on Thursday, February 28 , 2019. In November 2016 , Suliat , who had a hairdressing workshop in the Okokomaiko area, had taken a new apprentice, who gave her name as Grace . Grace, whose real name is Gladys Austin , had been asked to resume after promising to bring a guarantor the following day. However , she was said to have tricked Suliat’ s two children , Kafayat ( six ) and Farouk ( four), and allegedly disappeared with them that same day. Efforts by the family to locate the children had proved abortive. However , in March 2017, the suspect was arrested by operatives of the Specia...

The Deputy Speaker of the Nasarawa State House of Assembly , Godiya Akwashiki , has been beaten and stripped naked by suspected hoodlums. In a viral video , Akwashiki , who emerged senator- elect for the Nasarawa North Senatorial District , was seen tied with a rope by the gang . There was blood in his mouth as he protested weakly while his assailants pummelled him. It was learnt that the lawmaker was beaten at a private residence in the Maitama area of Abuja. He was alleged to have attempted sleeping with the wife of a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, Alhaji Danladi Envuluanza. The lawmaker , who currently represents Eggon West in the state House of Assembly, however, denied trying to sleep with any politician’ s wife , adding that he was stripped at gunpoint . He also claimed that he was tricked to the venue of the incident , where he was beaten by the hoodlums. The Commissioner of Police, Federal Capital Territory , Bala Ciroma , said the matter was under inv...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has kicked against the results as announced by the Independent National Electoral (INEC) for the Saturday Presidential election. The INEC Wednesday morning declared incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress APC as Nigeria’s President-elect having polled the highest number of votes in last Saturday’s Presidential election. Consequently, INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu who is also the Chief Returning Officer for the Presidential Election said Mr Buhari would be presented with a Certificate of Return alongside his vice, Yemi Osinbajo. Buhari was declared President-elect at about 4:43am in Wednesday. “I, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu hereby certify that I was the Returning Officer for the Presidential Election held on the 23rd day of February, 2019. That the he action was contested; that the candidates received the following votes”, he began. Having announced the scores of the 73 Presidential candidates, Yakubu said; ” Tha...

The rescheduled presidential and National Assembly elections are here with us. One very sad, painful truth is that there are some fellows who call themselves “party supporters” who may not live to see the end of the voting exercise tomorrow or hear the results declared. There are some others too who may die the day the results would be announced because they would eagerly indulge in some violent activities on behalf of some politicians defeated in the elections. But these are clearly avoidable deaths which will only happen if people refuse to learn from the past foolish mistakes of others, and so fail to place appropriate value on their lives. In this case, it is a choice, either to live or to die. Many politicians who are out there threatening to unleash fire and thunder during these elections have carefully removed their families very far from the battlegrounds they are busy creating here and there. Some of them have since flown their wives and children abroad where they are n...

Ahead of tomorrow’s Presidential and National Assembly election, Organised Labour yesterday warned security agencies that President Muhammadu Buhari’s order to deal summarily with ballot snatchers or arsonists was not a license to kill, but intended to deter trouble makers. Organised Labour in a statement titled “Let’s Put National Interest First”, by President of Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Ayuba Wabba insisted that the victory or loss of any candidate was not worth the blood of any Nigerian, not even the blood of a chicken. Labour called on Nigerians to defy all odds to perform their civic duty to vote according to their conscience and beliefs and not according to primordial or sectarian sentiments or emergency seductions, saying: “We at the Nigerian Labour Congress believe that the citizens cannot complain afterward if they do not vote or vote wrongly.” The statement read in part “The moment of truth has come, and we must of necessity perform our civic duty in fulfillment ...

Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) The Independent National Electoral Commission INEC has said the conclusion of declaration of the 2019 Presidential Election results would not take longer than the 2015 elections in spite of the sheer number of presidential candidates, size of the result sheets and increased voter population. This was as the commission said it has achieved a 100 percent reconfiguration of its 180, 000 smart card readers ahead of the Presidential and National Assembly Elections on Saturday. INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu disclosed this Wednesday in Abuja while briefing journalists on the state of preparedness of the commission for the polls. “At yesterday’s briefing, we reported that we achieved 95% configuration of the Smart Card Readers SCR nationwide. The Card Readers were introduced in the 2015 general elections to facilitate the accreditation of voters using the PVCs. They are configured to specific ...

The management of Ekiti State University , Ado Ekiti, has called on its students to resume for the second semester examinations, while insisting that its ‘ no -school- fees - no examination ’ policy is still in force . The EKSU Director of Information , Mr Olubunmi Ajibade, said the examinations , which were suspended three months ago when lecturers of the institution joined the nationwide strike of the Academic Staff Union of Universities , would begin on Thursday . Ajibade, in a statement issued on Sunday, stated that the university ’ s Senate had directed returning and new students of the institution to return to main campus on Monday for academic activities . He said , “Upon resumption, the second semester examinations will resume by Thursday. Returning students and those carrying over General Studies Test courses are to note that the computer- based examinations will now hold on Thursday and Friday. “All students are to note that the policy of ‘ no school fees , no exami...

The National Association of Nigerian Students has suspended its proposed nationwide protest scheduled for Monday ( today ) over the postponement of the Presidential and National Assembly elections . The spokesperson of the association , Azeez Adeyemi disclosed this while speaking with newsmen in Abeokuta on Monday . The body had threatened to stage a nationwide protest today against the postponement of the elections by the Independent National Electoral Commission. He cited an alleged plan by unnamed politicians to hijack the protest as the reason for “standing- down” the protest Adeyemi said , “I must say here , after going through all information in the public domain about the postponement of the presidential and national assembly elections, we have obviously seen that , there is the hand of Esau and the voice of Jacob in the hullabaloo. “It is based on these premise , that we want to emphatically say that NANS is not a tool to settle a political issue. We say with utmost ...

The National Association of Nigerian Students has threatened that its members would organise nationwide protests against the postponement of the general elections by the Independent National Electoral Commission. Spokesman of the association , Mr . Azeez Adeyemi, disclosed this while speaking with newsmen in Abeokuta on Saturday . Adeyemi said the students would organise nationwide protests on Monday against the INEC’ s decision . He stated that the association was fully mobilised for the protests and that no attempt to stop it would succeed . He described the situation as “show of shame and disgrace to a country . ” The body lamented that countries often learnt from their past , “but, that is not so with Nigeria . ” Adeyemi, however, cautioned that the sovereignty of Nigeria should not be toyed with by selfish leaders , adding that the unity of the country should not be frustrated . He stated that it was a shame and a bad signal to worldwide observers that the sincerity in ...

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Since 4G network arrived Nigeria, Globacom (Glo), an indigenous Nigerian telecommunications service provider, popularly called the grandmasters of data, has been at the forefront offering Nigerian customers quality internet data services at a competitive price. This has been made easier with Globacom’s partnership with Huawei Technologies, the leading global ICT and Telecommunications equipment and service providers. The duo (Globacom and Huawei Technologies) have recently resorted to rewarding Nigerian students across institutions in the country with a combination of high-end smartphones and super-fast internet service. This program, targeted at thirty (30) universities and a hundred and fifty (150) Nigerian students, will be offering free Huawei smartphones loaded with six months unlimited Glo 4G data to five (5) students and five (5) Huawei routers with pre-loaded 60GB of Glo 4G data to the institution.Students to be rewarded are the top five (5) final year students in each ins...

Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) INEC chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu,while briefing newsmen at the commission’s headquarters, announced that continuing with the election as earlier scheduled for today, 16th February, 2019, was no longer feasible. According to him,“Following a careful review of the implementation of its logistics and operational plan, and the determination to conduct free, fair, and credible elections, the commission came to the conclusion that proceeding with the elections as scheduled is no longer feasible.” He therefore announced that the presidential and National Assembly elections had been moved to February 23, 2019. He also said that the governorship and state assembly elections have also been moved by one week to March 9, 2019. According to him, “consequently, the Commission has decided to reschedule the Presidential and National Assembly Elections to Saturday, 23rd February 2019. Furthermore, t...

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The people of Ayegbaju Ekiti in the Oye Local Government Area of Ekiti State staged a violent protest over the alleged killing of a farmer , Elijah Ogor, by suspected herdsmen . The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Ogor, in his 30s hailed from Benue State but was residing in Ekiti, where he engaged in farming. He was allegedly killed on his farm , located between Ayegbaju and Ido Ekiti communities late on Wednesday after his attackers had allowed their cattle to destroy his farm . The aggrieved residents blocked Ifaki-Ayegbaju and Ayegbaju - Oye highways and prevented vehicular movements in and out of the town . One of the protesters, who identified himself simply as Adeleye , told newsmen that Ogor was shot at point- blank range by his assailants and that he died on the spot . “All we want is justice . How can any cattle rearer go to someone’ s farm and destroy it and still go ahead to kill him? This is unjust and callous . “This issue must be investigated thoroughly and wh...