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The Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate in the just concluded election, Peter Obi, has filed a suit at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal, Abuja, against the declaration of Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress, APC, as the winner by the electoral commission. we sighted the petition marked CA/PEC/02m/2023 with Peter Obi, Labour Party, LP as plaintiff, while the […]

The Supreme Court on Friday ordered that the old naira notes must remain in circulation till December 31 this year. The apex court ordered the Central Bank of Nigeria CBN to allow both the old naira notes and the new ones to circulate side by side till the end of the year. All directives issued by President Muhammadu Buhari in […]

Mixed reactions have continued to trail the manual collation of votes for the presidential election, an action some say is in contravention of the provisions of the 2022 electoral act. Recall that in the run-up to the presidential election, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC chairman, Professor Mahmoud Yakubu, had assured Nigerians that election results would be uploaded realtime using […]

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the winner of the Saturday, February 25, 2023 presidential election in Nigeria. INEC Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, declared Tinubu winner of the election on Wednesday morning. “I Professor Mahmood Yakubu hereby certify that I was the returning officer for the presidential […]

Nigeria’s presidential election was marked by long delays at some polling stations on Saturday, which did not deter large crowds of voters hoping for a reset after years of worsening violence and hardship under outgoing President Muhammadu Buhari. Africa’s most populous nation is struggling with Islamist insurgencies in the northeast, an epidemic of kidnappings for ransom, conflict between herders and […]

The Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has defeated his counterpart from the All Progressives Congress APC, Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu in President Muhammadu Buhari home state, Katsina after polling the highest number of votes from the 34 LGA in the state. The Returning Officer for Katsina State Presidential Election, Prof. Ma’azu Abubakar Gusau, announced the […]

The Labour Party presidential candidate, Mr Peter Obi, has defeated the APC Presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, in Lagos, his home state. Though Tinubu won more local government areas, Obi defeated him with most of the votes. All the results of the 20 local governments have been declared. Tinubu won in 11, while Obi won in nine local government […]

Peter Obi, Labour Party presidential candidate, has condemned the killing of the party’s senatorial candidate for Enugu East Senatorial District, Mr Oyibo Chukwu. Chukwu was reportedly murdered and set ablaze alongside other party members on Wednesday evening at Amaechi Awkunanaw, Enugu South Local Government Area of Enugu State. It was gathered that unidentified persons accosted them while riding in a Toyota […]

Former Radio Biafra anchorman, Simon Ekpa has been arrested in Finland. Ekpa was taken into custody on Thursday 48 hours before the start of the general elections in Nigeria. Criminal Investigator, Tommi Reen from the Central Criminal Police told the HS news outlet that the Keskusrikospoliisi (KRP), the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) in Finland had a police operation in […]

The Supreme Court on Wednesday concluded hearing in the suit brought against the Federal Government on the controversial Naira re-design policy and fixed March 3 to give judgment. Justice John Inyang Okoro fixed the date after taking arguments for and against the suit by some States of the Federation. The states led by Kaduna, Kogi and Zamfara are praying the […]