Posted by Samson Kankan
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Sunday, March 19th, 2023
(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 […]
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Sunday, March 19th, 2023
(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 […]
Posted by Samson Kankan
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Sunday, March 19th, 2023
(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, […]
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Sunday, March 19th, 2023
(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 […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Sunday, March 19th, 2023
(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 […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Sunday, March 19th, 2023
(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 […]
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Sunday, March 19th, 2023
(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 […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Sunday, March 19th, 2023
(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 […]
Posted by Niyi Adeyi
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Sunday, March 19th, 2023
(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, […]
Posted by Samson Kankan
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Sunday, March 19th, 2023
(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 […]
Posted by Samson Kankan
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Saturday, March 18th, 2023
(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 […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Saturday, March 18th, 2023
(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 […]
Posted by Samson Kankan
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Saturday, March 18th, 2023
(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 […]
Posted by Samson Kankan
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Saturday, March 18th, 2023
(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 […]
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Saturday, March 18th, 2023
(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 […]
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Saturday, March 18th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Voting in today’s Governorship and House of Assembly elections have commenced in parts of Enugu state amid tight security in every nook and crannies of the state. Accreditation began at 9: 15 am in some polling units located at Enugu South and North local government areas of the state At Eha-Amufu in […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Friday, March 17th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A body, Championing the course of physically challenged persons in Enugu State, under the platform of Voice of Disability Initiative (VDI), has enjoined all and sundry in the area to keep joining hands with it and other caring relevant organizations in advancing the rights of Women and girls with Disabilities in […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Friday, March 17th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nyesome Wike, governor of Rivers state, has claimed that former Rivers State governor, Rotimi Amaechi, worked against the presidential bid of Bola Tinubu. The African Examiner recalls that Tinubu, candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), won the presidential election conducted on February 25 and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Friday, March 17th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The President-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has stated that his administration will assemble his cabinet members based on their competence and performance. Tinubu refuted claims that his government will be formed on national unity as he stated that he seeks to run a government of national competence without giving consideration to religious sentiments. […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
Enugu, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria
Friday, March 17th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Less than 48 hours to the Governorship and House of Assembly elections in Nigeria, Candidate of the New Nigeria people’s party NNPP in Enugu State, Dr Cajetan Eze, has collapsed his political structure into that of the people’s Democratic PDP’s governorship flag bearer in the state, Dr. Peter Mbah. He announced this […]
