Nnenna Ibeh
2952 articles published since 07 Sep 2015
2952 articles published since 07 Sep 2015
Professor Teddy Adias, INEC Returning Officer for the district, who announced the result on Wednesday in Yenagoa, said that Diri polled 83, 978 votes to defeat Festus Daumiebi of APC, who got 70, 998 votes.
As anxiety continues around Nigeria over the outcome of the presidential election conducted by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Saturday, February 23, the electoral umpire is fully prepared for the results.
Announcing the result on Monday in Auchi, the Returning Officer, Professor Moses Osawaru of the University of Benin, said Alimikhena scored of 117, 783 votes to defeat his closest opponent, Abubakar Momoh of the PDP.
A senatorial candidate for the Kogi central district in the forthcoming election has accused Governor Yahaya Bello of shutting her out of the state in her bid to exercise her civil right as a Nigerian voter.
The Buhari administration also extended more than N2 trillion to state governments, to enable them meet their salary and pension obligations, especially in the face of dwindling oil revenues over the last two years.
Troops of Nigerian military on Saturday, January 19, were said to have destroyed a gun truck and one vehicle carrying Improvised Explosives Devices owned by the Boko Haram terrorist group in Baga, northern area of Borno state.
Also, the Cable had in a report titled: BREAKING: Atiku arrives US, ‘to speak at chamber of commerce’ said Atiku Abubakar is expected to speak at the Chamber of Commerce on Friday, from 2:30 pm to 4 pm local time.
Nigeria's minister of finance, Zainab Ahmed, has reiterated the Federal Government’s support for Kano state government’s proposal to invest in the 540 megawatt Qua Iboe Power Plant (QIPP) located in Akwa Ibom state.
Speaking to journalists, the national president of the Yoruba-based group, Kola Salawu, said he was surprised that PDP could make such allegations that the exercise was conceived to intimidate voters during the 2019 polls.
Nnenna Ibeh
Load more