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The Department of Development Control, Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has demolished 11,705 shanty colonies across the city, Abuja, from January to October, according to an official. The department also generated N2.5 billion and created 13,873 direct and indirect jobs within the period. Mr Mukhtar Galadima, Director, Development Control, Abuja Metropolitan Management Council, FCTA, disclosed this during a media briefing on the activities of the department in Abuja on Sunday. Galadima explained that the shanties and illegal developments were demolished in conjunction with the Ministerial Enforcement Task Force Team. He identified the affected areas as Kabusa, Kasuwan dare, Galadimawa junction,…

By Kamil Opeyemi The All Progressives Congress (APC) has condemned “brazen efforts” by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its candidate Governor Douye Diri to influence the relocation of results collation for Brass Local Government Area in the Bayelsa State governorship election to Yenagoa, the state capital. The party stated this in a statement signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Felix Morka, in on Sunday, alleging that Diri was putting pressure on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). The party emphasised the imperative for INEC to maintain its stance and carry out the collation of votes for Brass LGA in…

By Kamil Opeyemi The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), on Sunday, adjourned the collation of election results in the Bayelsa State Governorship Elections conducted on November 11, 2023. The collation of results was adjourned about two hours after the commencement of the exercise which was earlier adjourned last night. Prof Faruq Kuta, who is the Vice Chancellor of the Federal University Of Technology, Minna, and the state Returning Officer for the election in Bayelsa adjourned the exercise till 3pm today. The adjournment was after the collation of results from three of the eight local government areas in the state namely…

By Kamil Opeyemi The collation centre for the Bayelsa state governorship election has opened Sunday morning. The collation started with the declaration of the results from Kolokuma Local Government Area of the state with 11 wards where elections took place. Returning Officer, Prof Faruk Adamu Kuta , called on collation officers from the 9 local government areas to come forward for the declaration of results while appealing to all party agents to be calm. He also demanded of the Collation Officers to be mindful of the figures they present baring in mind number of accredited voters and numbers of votes…

By Kamil Opeyemi The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared Governor Hope Uzodimma of the All Progressives Congress (APC) winner of the November 11, 2023 governorship election in the state. Uzodinma who was seeking re-election was declared winner by the Vice Chancellor of the Federal University, Oye Ekiti, Prof Abayomi Fashina, who was the state Returning Officer on Sunday. According to Prof. Abayomi, the APC candidate polled 540,308 votes to beat Samuel Anyanwu of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who scored 71,503 votes; and Athan Achonu of Labour Party (LP) who secured 64,081 votes. “That you Hope Uzodimma of…

By Kamil Opeyemi Governor Hope Uzodimma of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has won 18 of the 27 local government results announced so far in the November 11, 2023 governorship poll in Imo State. The announcement of results began around 02:30am on Sunday at the State Collation Centre in Owerri, the state capital, with the Vice Chancellor of the Federal University, Oye Ekiti, Prof Abayomi Fashina, as the state Returning Officer of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for the election. The election which had 18 parties fielded candidates has been described by analysts as a four-horse race between APC’s…

One hundred-and-forty inmates on death row are awaiting execution in Kano State. Spokesman of the Nigerian Correctional Service in Kano State Command, Mr Musbahu Kofar-Nassarawa, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday in Kano that those on death row are of both genders. “Kano Correctional Centre has no hangman because it is a Medium Security Custodial Centre,’’ Kofar-Nassarawa said. He noted that governors in the state had failed to either sign death warrants or to commute the sentences of those on death row to life imprisonment. “Some governors use Constitutional provisions to release inmates based on recommendations by…

A Nigerian journalist with the HumAngle, Muhammed Akinyemi, on Saturday emerged the overall winner of the 2023 West Africa Media Excellence Conference Awards in Accra, Ghana. Akinyemi beat 16 other finalists to win the covetous subregional awards with his story titled “All Die Na Die: At the Heart of Nigeria’s Soot Problem”. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the awards were organised by the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA). As the overall winner, Akinyemi smiled home with $2000 prize in addition to the $500 he had earlier won for emerging the winner of the Environment category of…

No Glitch as INEC Displays Results of Bayelsa, Kogi, Imo on iREV Results from polling units for Saturday’s governorship elections in Bayelsa, Kogi and Imo are currently being uploaded unto the iREV portal of the Independent National Electoral Commission as scheduled. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that as at 5:55pm, 1,417 polling units results for Bayelsa, representing 63.15 per cent of the 2,244 expected polling units results, had been uploaded by INEC. NAN reports that the results were uploaded on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) designated portal. For Imo, 2,899 out of 4,720 expected polling units…

Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have arrested 14 suspected vote buyers in Otueke, Adawari playgrounds in Bayelsa and at various polling units in Imo and Kogi. EFCC Spokesperson Dele Oyewale said this in a statement on Saturday in Abuja. According to him, the suspects were arrested on Saturday in intelligence-driven operations that commenced several days before the ongoing governorship elections in the three states. “Also, a total sum of N11,040,000, comprising N9,310,00 intercepted from suspected vote buyers and sellers in Bayelsa, and N1,730,000 intercepted from electoral fraud suspects across Imo State, were recovered from them. “Also,…