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As an aftermath of the presidential/National Assembly elections, some resident Electoral Commissioners, RECs, and National Commissioners of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, will resign their appointments from the commission. This may follow alleged intimidation, harassment and threat to life by security agencies meted to them during the February 23 elections. States electoral commissioners and national commissioners alleged that at the height of the threat to their lives, they had looked up to the national chairman of the commission but couldn’t because he was also under intense pressure and massive attack by high profile individuals. It was gathered that some…

President of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, has moved up in the World billionaires’ list by emerging the 64th richest person in the world against his previous ranking of 103rd with an estimated worth of $16.6 billion. Dangote remains the richest man in Africa for the 8th year running and was the only Nigerian on the list of the top 500 billionaires released last week by Bloomberg in its yearly billionaires list. Jeff Bezos remains the richest in the world with $136 billion in his kitty, while Bill Gates and Warren Buffett followed as 2nd and 3rd respectively with $98.4 billion…

Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State Wednesday described those faulting the 1.464 million votes scored by President Muhammadu Buhari in the state as people ignorant of Kano politics. Ganduje also explained that voters’ apathy was responsible for the inability of the state to redeem the five million votes promised President Muhammadu Buhari in the February 23 presidential election. The Governor had assured the President that Kano State would give him five million votes but the state only gave 1,464,768 to the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential candidate in the election, while the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku…

The Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, has called on former Vice President, Abubakar Atiku, to concede defeat in the just-concluded presidential election and congratulate President Muhammadu Buhari. Similarly, the ACF also called on the President elect, Muhammad Buhari, to ensure his new administration kept to its promise of strengthening the nation’s unity and inclusiveness in government, so that no section or group of the country ”is left behind or left out”. In a statement issued in Kaduna Wednesday by Muhammad Ibrahim Biu, its National Publicity Secretary, the ACF congratulated President Buhari on his victory at the polls, adding that his re-election…

Former president of Nigeria Bar Association, NBA, Dr. Olisa Agbakoba, SAN, has advised former Vice President, and presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, not to approach the Election Petition Tribunal in efforts to seek redress over what he (Atiku) described as flawed election. Agbakoba also noted that ethnicity played a significant role in the election, warning that same trend would repeated itself in 2023, if something urgent was not done about it. He in a statement signed Wednesday by his Media Assistant, Niyi Odunmorayo, said: ”I understand the PDP is aggrieved about the outcome of the…

The Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal Wednesday reserved judgment on four separate appeals suspended Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Walter Onnoghen, lodged before it. A three-man panel of Justices of the appellate court, headed by Justice Stephen Adah, adjourned the cases for judgment after it heard from both Onnoghen and the Federal Government. Represented by a team of lawyers, led by Chief Adegboyega Awomolo, SAN, Onnoghen told the appellate court that FG relied on “a questionable ex-parte order” and suspended him from office. He told the court that the Mr. Danladi Umar-led Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT,…

YIAGA AFRICA, a civil society organisation, Wednesday verified the Presidential elections results announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, saying they fell within its Parallel Vote Tabulation, PVT, estimated range. Dr Hussaini Abdu, Chairman, YIAGA AFRICA Watching The Vote, WTV, made this known at a news conference on the group’s statement on the 2019 Presidential Election results in Abuja. According to Abdu, for the 2019 Presidential Elections, YIAGA AFRICA’s WTV utilised the PVT methodology; the gold standard citizen observation methodology that uses statistics and ICT. He said that the group deployed 3,030 observer teams in pairs to a random…

Less than 24 hours since President Muhammadu Buhari won the 2019 presidential election to rule Nigeria for another four years, Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has presented him with a certificate of return. The commission has also presented a certificate of return to Professor Yemi Osinbajo, the country’s Vice President. The certificates were issued to them at the International Conference Center, ICC, in Abuja by Mahmood Yakubu, the INEC Chairman, on Wednesday. INEC, had on Wednesday morning at the ICC Collation Centre in Abuja declared Muhammadu Buhari, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, as the winner. Buhari…

Erstwhile National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Olisa Metuh, Tuesday narrated before the Federal High Court in Abuja, how he got N400 million from ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, before the 2015 presidential election. Metuh, who is facing a seven-count money laundering charge the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, preferred against him, said the money was wired into his account, after he exposed some of the challenges that faced Jonathan’s re-election bid. He told the court that Jonathan requested for his account number, after he watched a presentation on strategies the PDP needed to adopt if it…

The UN, African Union, AU, and ECOWAS have urged political parties to exercise restraint as the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, announces results of the presidential and National Assembly elections. In a statement by the international bodies made by ECOWAS Commission yesterday, they also urged candidates to continue to exercise patience for the complete results. “The attention of the ECOWAS, AU and the UN has been drawn to the rejection of the results of the presidential election of February 23, 2019 by one of the participating political parties, even as they are still in the process of being released. “ECOWAS,…