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Nigeria's electoral commission has pushed back elections to choose state governors and lawmakers, which had been due this weekend, to allow more time to reset the electronic voting system at the centre…

The suspension of Mr Boss Mustapha, Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, by his Godabawa ward, has been voided by the Adamawa State chapter of All Progressives Congress. The APC in Mustapha’s ward in Adamawa State, northeast Nigeria, earlier suspended him after he failed to win his polling unit for the party in the presidential election of February 25. The candidate of the party, Bola Tinubu emerged as the winner of the presidential election and ‘President-elect’.

The Presidential Election Petition Court in Abuja has ordered that the ‘President-elect’, Bola Tinubu, should be served with copies of petitions seeking to nullify his election through alternative means. This was stated on Friday in a ruling delivered by a three-man panel of the court led by Justice Joseph Ikyegh. The panel directed that the petitions should be served on Tinubu through his political party, the All Progressives Congress.

The Benue State governor-elect, Rev. Fr. Hyacinth Iormem Alia, has said that he has worked for over 32 years as a Catholic Priest without a wife, therefore he

One of the defeated opposition candidates in Nigeria's presidential election has formally challenged the results in a petition filed at a court tribunal in the capital, Abuja.

Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers: 1. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate, Similanayi Fubara has been

The 26-year-old candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party for the Ijebu North Constituency 1 in Ogun State, South West Nigeria, Rasheed Kashamu, has been declared winner of the Saturday's governorship election.  The Independent National Electoral Commission conducted governorship and House of Assembly elections on Saturday across the country. Rasheed Kashamu, son of the late Senator Buruji Kashamu polled 10,004 votes to defeat the incumbent member of the State Assembly, Sylvester Abiodun (...

There is high drama and heightened tension in Adamawa State after the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared the governorship election in

He is just 26 years old, just like Rukayat Shittu who also won a seat to represent Owode/Onire constituency in Asa Local Government Area of Kwara State House of Assembly. She is equally 26 years old.

The Ebeano political group led by Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu has joined the All Progressives Congress. This comes barely 24 hours after its founder, former Enugu State Governor, Senator Chimaroke Nnamani, officially dumped the Peoples Democratic Party. Nnamani’s defection came after he lost his bid to return to the Senate on the platform of PDP.