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February 03, (THEWILL) - A total of 4,613,291 eligible Nigerians with Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs), will file out to their polling booths this Saturday, to participate in the re-run and bye-elections in some national and state legislative seats across 26 states of the federation. The affected states include Ebonyi, Yobe, Kebbi, Lagos, Ondo, Taraba, Benue,

  The House of Representatives bye-election to fill the vacant seat of the Jalingo/Yorro/Zing Federal Constituency in Taraba State was marred on Saturday by voters’ apathy as voters shunned the election. Recall that the by-election was as a result of the death of late Ismaila Maihanchi, who had won the February 25, 2023, election for the federal constituency. In many of the polling units visited by Punch, there were scanty voters sighted, as electoral officials were waiting for voters as of 1...

  Voting was disrupted on Saturday in the Akoko North-East and Akoko North-West Federal Constituency by-election at Unit 5, Ward 13 in Oyinmo, Ikare-Akoko, when suspected armed political thugs snatched the ballot box. According to eyewitnesses, the attack by the hoodlums caused panic with many voters taking to their heels. An eyewitness, who did not want his name published, said that the attack occurred just before noon after not less than 63 people had cast their votes, the News Agency of Nige...

No fewer than four million Nigerians are expected to vote, today Saturday in the re-run and bye-elections to fill 48 legislative seats across 26 states of the country. The INEC Chairman, Prof Mahmood Yakubu, has however assured of credible exercises and tasked all stakeholders on support to ensure violence-free polls. Amid tension in some of the constituencies that are usually volatile during elections, the Department of State Services (DSS) warned Nigerians taking part in the elections to be of...

  The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced immediate suspension of the ongoing rerun elections in specific constituencies in Enugu, Kano and Akwa Ibom States over abduction of election officials, disruptions and irregularities. The electoral umpire identified the affected areas to include Enugu South 1 State Constituency, Enugu State, Ikono/Ini Federal Constituency, Akwa Ibom State and Kunchi/Tsanyawa State Constituency, Kano State.

The Governor of Yobe State, Mai Mala Buni on Saturday, expressed satisfaction with the conduct of Saturday’s bye-election for Yobe East Senatorial

The Yobe State Police Command, in collaboration with the Nigerian Army, intercepted an 18-seater bus on Saturday loaded with

The Yobe State Police Command said its operatives, in collaboration with the Nigerian Army, intercepted an 18-seater bus loaded with suspected political

The Islamic State-backed faction of Boko Haram, the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), formerly known as Jamā'at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da'wah wa'l-Jihād has killed at least four policemen in Gajiram, Borno State, after a midnight attack on a police station. Gajiram is located about 73 kilometers to the restive capital of the North Eastern State of Borno. Military sources confirmed the attack to SaharaReporters on Saturday afternoon as well as a security analyst in the Lake ...

This was as he warned troublemakers to stay away from the exercise.