Author: Halimah Olamide
Halimah Olamide Holds a degree in History and Education. She also holds professional certificates in graphics and passionate about reporting issues of politics, economy, and gender
•Report by Kamil Opeyemi The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has ordered re-election in nine polling units at Ganaja Village in Ajaokuta Local Government Area of Kogi. According to Alhaji Haliru Sule, Kogi INEC Head of Voters Education and Publicity, the order became imperative as scheduled elections couldn’t hold in those units due some logistic problems. While announcing this to newsmen in Lokoja on Sunday, Sule said that election materials and the officials were already redeployed to the area early Sunday morning for the exercise to commence. “We had some challenges holding the presidential and National Assembly elections in Ganaja…
•Report by Halimah Olamide The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has won the election in the polling unit of its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar. With the result of the election, which held at polling unit 12 in Ajiya, Gwadabawa ward in Yola north LGA of Adamawa state, PDP secured 282 votes. Meanwhile, the All Progressives Congress (APC) came second with 57 votes. The Labour Party (LP) secured six votes, while the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) got one vote.
•Report by Kamil Opeyemi President Muhammadu Buhari won his polling unit in Saturday’s presidential and parliamentary elections for the candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC). The APC presidential flagbearer, Bola Tinubu, won with 523 votes at the polling unit 003, Sarkin Yara A, Daura, Katsina State. The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, came second with three votes. The candidates of the NNPP and Labour Party, Rabiu Kwankwaso and Peter Obi, recorded zero votes. President Buhari, his wife, Aisha, as well as family members and staff also voted at the polling unit. The president, who…
•Report by Kamil Opeyemi The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it will commence the collation of 2023 presidential and parliamentary elections on Sunday at midday. The INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, announced this at a news conference on the 2023 general elections on Saturday in Abuja. Yakubu said results were expected by the commission from the states starting from Sunday. “I will like to invite you at midday tomorrow (Sunday) for the official opening of the National Innovation Centre for the 2023 general elections. “We hope that by tomorrow, we expect to have some of the election results coming…
•Report by Kamil Opeyemi The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said voting will be extended till Sunday in some polling units in Cross River State. The INEC’s Head of Department (HOD), Voter Education and Publicity, Anthonia Nwobi, said this in a statement issued on Saturday evening on behalf of the state Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC). “The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced the extension period of voting for the Presidential and National Assembly Elections to Sunday February 26, 2023 in Polling Units in Cross River State that election did not take place on Saturday 25 February, 2023 including…
Report by Mudasir Opeyemi A yet-to-be-identified bus driver has been killed in a road accident on the Oshodi-Apapa Expressway by PM Filling Station, Cele, inward Mile 2, Lagos State. LASEMA Permanent Secretary, Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu provided an update in a statement. The accident, which occurred on Thursday around 1pm, involved an unregistered 40ft containerised truck, a commercial vehicle with number plate AKD 489XZ; a Highlander SUV with registration number AGL 366 FP; and a Toyota RAV4 with number plate AAA 353 FH. Oke-Osanyintolu said the truck driver lost control and collided with the vehicles ahead of it. While occupants of the…
•Inside Ogun’s Abandoned 32 Kilometre Road Where Owners of Demolished Properties, Businesses Have Become Helpless, Hapless Report by Halimah Olamide Three decades after it was first conceived, the 32 kilometre Sango-Agbado-Akute-Alagbole-Berger road means excruciating pains for property owners with government itself undecided how best to carry the burden of a route that have thrown millions of people into life-threatening hardship. Residents, property and business owners of the entire stretch of Ota-Agbado-Olambe-Akute-Alagbole Road in Ogun state recount their losses, as they never envisaged their properties and sources of livelihood would be taken away from them. Seventy-years old Elder Abdulrauf Fatunibi, the immediate past chairman of the Ogunlowo-Alagbole…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), on Tuesday submitted the result sheets of polling units being challenged for alleged over-voting before the Osun State Election Petitions Tribunal. The All Progressives Congress (APC) and the former Osun Governor, Gboyega Oyetola, are challenging the results of 749 polling units in the July 17 governorship election. At the sitting in Osogbo on Tuesday, the Tribunal Chairman, Justice Tertsea Kume, admitted the documents in evidence and marked as exhibits after returning from over five hours recess (10a.m to 4.44 p.m). Mr Lateef Fagbemi, Counsel to the Petitioners (APC and Oyetola), however, raised observations and…
•Report by Mudasir Opeyemi Presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, was in Kastina today,the state of President Muhammad Buhari to canvass for votes. Atiku while addressing the crowd promised to address security and economy challenges bedevelling the country, if elected in 2023. “I promise to enhance the security situation and the economy to boost business activities, if elected,” he said. He said that PDP was determined to move the country forward and called on Nigerians to come out en masse to vote for the party’s candidates in 2023 general election. Atiku said said that PDP has…
•Report by Mudasir Opeyemi The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has approved the commencement of registration for the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) from Jan. 24 to Feb. 14, 2023. The Board also fixed March 16, 2023, for the conduct of its optional mock-UTME. This is contained in a statement by the board’s Head of Public Affairs and Protocol, Dr Fabian Benjamin, in Abuja on Tuesday. Benjamin said that the board, however, does not include registration for Direct Entry (DE) application documents as the DE registration would commence from Feb. 20 to April 20, 2023. He also disclosed…