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The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has won a commanding majority of the ninth Senate to be inaugurated on June 9, 2019. In official results published by Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC on its website for the February 23 National Assembly election in the country, APC won 63 seats while the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) clinched 37 seats. The Young Progressive Party (YPP) is the only other party outside the two dominant ones that has garnered one seat. The upper legislative chamber has a total of 109 seats with three Senators from each of the 36 states plus…

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Saturday, March 9, conducted governorship elections across 29 out of 36 states across Nigeria and state House of Assembly elections across the country. So far, All Progressives Congress, APC has grabbed 13 states while Peoples Democratic Party, PDP has taken possession of eight states, according to INEC. However, INEC has declared the elections in some states inconclusive. A breakdown of 13 states won by the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) show: APC STATES Lagos, Babajide Sanwo-Olu (739,445) Kwara, Abdulrahman Abdulrasaq (331,546) Kebbi, Atiku Bagudu (673,717) Jigawa, Muhammad Abubakar Badaru (810, 993) Gombe, Muhammad…

The fate of Imo West Senatorial District is hanging on the balance as the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has removed the name of Imo Governor, Rochas Okorocha from the list of newly elected senators published on its website. Though Okorocha’s name was conspicuously missing in Box 47, it is certain that INEC will conduct another election to duly elect a Senator to represent the district. INEC published the list of elected federal lawmakers ahead of the presentation of the Certificates of Return to them on Thursday, March 14. It was gathered that only senator-elect Onyewuchi Ezenwa Francis (Imo East),…

Zinedine Zidane said he is “very happy to be home” after returning as Real Madrid manager just 10 months after leaving the Spanish giants. The Frenchman replaces Santiago Solari, who was sacked after less than five months in charge. Former Real midfielder Zidane, 46, who left in May after leading the club to a third straight Champions League trophy, has agreed to take over until 2022. Real are currently third in La Liga, 12 points behind leaders Barcelona. “The best manager in the world has rejoined the club,” Real president Florentino Perez said. “Our destinies are once again united.” Solari’s…

Catholic Archbishop of Abuja, John Cardinal Onaiyekan, has lamented the attempts made by desperate politicians to militarise and rig the just concluded Governorship and State Assembly polls, saying bad elections cannot lead to good governance. Onaiyekan spoke Monday at the opening of 2019’s first plenary of the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria, CBCN, ongoing in Abuja. He said the clamour for the revision or outright rewrite of the electoral laws was not misplaced, if the nation must make any progress. According to him, the voter apathy that dogged Saturday’s elections in some parts of the country is a form of…

Ahead of litigation that will arise from the 2019 general elections, Justice Tanko Muhammad, the Acting Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Monday urged judges across the federation to protect the interest of the citizens. Justice Muhammad warned that democracy could only thrive in the country when fundamental rights of the citizens, epitomised by free and fair elections, was respected. He noted that the judiciary was the only arm of the government constitutionally vested with powers to reconcile the interest of “the powerful” with those of “the voiceless poor”. The Acting CJN spoke at the opening ceremony of the 2019 refresher…

The Federal Government, Monday, explained why it would pursue the six-count charge initiated against the suspended Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Walter Onnoghen, to its logical conclusion. The government, through its lawyer, Mr. Aliyu Umar, SAN, insisted that Justice Onnoghen, who was suspended from office by President Muhammadu Buhari on January 25, acted in breach of the oath he took as a public officer. It maintained that contrary to Onnoghen’s contention, he was not charged for misconducting himself as a judicial officer, but for violating the code of conduct for public officers enshrined in the 1999 Constitution, as amended.…

The Nigerian Army has warned foreign governments against interfering in Nigeria’s domestic issues, describing a statement credited to the United Kingdom which accused the military of undue involvement in the governorship election in Rivers State as baseless, untrue and capable of misleading unsuspected members of the public. The Army in a statement signed Monday by its spokesman, Col. Sagir Musa, advised that any allegation against the army must be confirmed from appropriate quarters before jumping to conclusions. In the statement, tagged: “Re: UK Expresses Concern over Military involvement in Rivers Poll”, the Army insisted that the statement by the UK…

In continuation of Operation Yancin Tafki which was launched last month, troops of the Multinational Joint Task Force, comprising air and land components, from Chad, Cameroon, Niger Republic and Nigeria have for the second time in about 10 days, dealt a devastating blow on Boko Haram terrorists. Spokesman of Col Timothy Antigha, spokesman of MNJTF, Col. Timothy Antigha, who disclosed this in a statement yesterday, said: “On Saturday night, Boko Haram terrorists operating along the Kamadougou River, between Niger and Nigeria, attacked troops location in Gueskerou, about 30 kilometers from Diffa in Niger Republic. “However, troops showed valour and gallantry…

The Parliament of the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, has called on parties in the February 23 Presidential election in Nigeria to respect the outcome of the polls, in line with its protocol on democracy and good governance. President of ECOWAS Parliament, Mustapha Cisse Lo, made the call at the opening of the Extra Ordinary Session of the ECOWAS Parliament in Dakar, Senegal, while congratulating Nigeria and Senegal for conducting successful elections. It would be recalled that the Election Observation Mission of ECOWAS, led by former Liberian President, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, had said that despite challenges of violence,…