(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Kano State Government has imposed dawn to dusk curfew with a view to avoid breakdown of law and order following tensions generated from the collation of results of the governorship and state Assembly elections. The state Commissioner for Information and Internal Affairs, Muhammad Garba, made the announcement in a statement issued […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has concluded the collation of results of the Enugu State Governorship Election and adjourned until Monday for declaration of the winner. The INEC Returning Officer for the Election, Prof Ofo Iwe made the announcement on Sunday night after concluding the collation of results from the 17 […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has been declared the winner of Saturday’s governorship election in Lagos state. The Returning Officer for the election, Prof Adenike Temidayo Oladiji said Sanwo-Olu scored 762,134 votes to defeat his closest challenger, the candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Gbadebo Rhodes-Viviour who garnered […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ex-Governor of Enugu state, and incumbent Senator representing Enugu East Senatorial District Senator Chimaroke Nnamani, has lost his bid to return to the Senate. He was defeated by the candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Sir Kelvin Chukwu in Saturday’s rescheduled election for the Senatorial district. Chukwu, scored a total of 69,136 […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the 2023 governorship election in Gombe, Alhaji Inuwa Yahaya has been re-elected. Declaring him the winner on Sunday, the State collation Officer of the election and the vice chancellor of federal university Gashua, Professor Maimuna Waziri said Inuwa scored a total of 342, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Independent National Electoral Commission has declared 23 All Progressives Congress House of Assembly candidates in Ekiti State as winners of Saturday’s election into the state legislature in their respective constituencies. The electoral umpire also declared two Social Democratic Party candidates winners while the remaining state constituency was declared inconclusive. INEC Resident […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Ebonyi State Police Command has confirmed the killing of the Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Peter Nweke, in Ezza North Local Government Area during Saturday’s election. The Police Public Relation Officer, SP Onome Onovwakpoyeya, revealed this to the pressmen in Abakaliki on Sunday. Onovwakpoyeya said the deceased was beaten to […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Independent National Electoral Commission has declared the election for the Takai Constituency seat in the Kano State House of Assembly as inconclusive. The Returning Officer, Prof. Usman Ibrahim of Bayero University, Kano, announced this at INEC’s office in Takai on Sunday. “Even though the candidate of All Progressives Congress, Musa Ali, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared Gov. Seyi Makinde of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as winner of the March 18 Governorship election in Oyo State. The State Returning Officer, Prof. Adebayo Bamire, also the Vice-Chancellor, Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, made the declaration on Sunday afternoon at the INEC […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and the Labour Party (LP) have both won 4 local government areas each, in the eight LGA results so far announced by the Independent National Electoral INEC in the Governorship and House of Assembly elections held in Enugu state. PDP’s Gubernatorial Candidate Dr. Peter Mbah, won […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Bayo Onanuga, the Media Director of the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, has come under attack on Social media after he stated that 2023 should be the last time Igbos would interfere with politics in Lagos State. The African Examiner had earlier reported that Onanuga, making use of his Twitter account on Saturday cautioned […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The incumbent governor of Oyo State, Seyi Makinde, has taken an early lead in the governorship election in the state. The results of 18 of the state’s 33 local governments have been formally announced by the electoral commission, INEC, at the collation centre in Ibadan, the state capital. Mr Makinde’s PDP has […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Popular Nigerian celebrities, Peter of P-Square, aka Mr. P and Falz, have berated the Nigeria Police concerning their conduct in the ongoing governorship and State Houses of Assembly elections. The African Examiner writes that there were reports that the 2023 Lagos State gubernatorial election was marred by violence and intimidation. Some thugs […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Speaker, Lagos State House of Assembly, Mr Mudashiru Obasa, has been elected for a sixth term to represent Agege 1 constituency in the state assembly. Dr Lukman Adeniji, the INEC Returning Officer for Agege constituency election, made the declaration on Sunday at the Collation Centre in Orile Agege. According to him, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Over 200 million Nigerians are in anxious wait for winners of the March 18, 2023 governorship and state assembly elections as the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) begins the upload of results electronically on its Result Viewing Portal (IReV). Checks by our correspondent on the IReV portal as 9am showed that between […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on Saturday said the scarcity of naira notes reduced the incidence of vote-buying. The President, after voting in Daura, Katsina State, urged Nigerians to collect money offered to them by vote-buyers but vote their conscience. The naira scarcity had led to crisis nationwide, in which case many Nigerians […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The labour Party LP Gubernatorial flag bearer in Enugu State, Barr. Chijioke Edeoga has raised the alarm over the disruption of voting processes in some polling units in the ongoing governorship and House of Assembly elections in the State. He hinted that one supporter of his party in Uzo- Uwani local government […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has postponed Saturday’s governorship and state assembly elections in 10 polling units in the Victoria Garden City (VGC) around the Lekki area of the state. INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner, Segun Agbaje made the announcement when he addressed reporters at the VGC. According to him, corps members […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Thugs in large numbers have invaded Adejare Polling Unit in Ilasa, Oshodi/Isolo Local Government Area of Lagos State to disperse voters who were waiting for officials and ad hoc staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission to begin voting for the ongoing governorship and state assembly election. According to an eyewitness, Arome […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The immediate past Ekiti Deputy Governor, Bisi Egbeyemi, is dead. He died at age 78. Egbeyemi was a deputy governor to Governor Kayode Fayemi. He served between 2018 and 2022. The former deputy governor died around 8 pm on Friday after a brief illness. He was said to have died at a […]
