The deputy governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos state, Olufunke Akindele, has deleted all posts relating to politics and her campaign from her Instagram page. As of Monday morning, the only visible posts on her page were her movie promotion and other personal posts. This is coming a few hours after the incumbent governor of Lagos state, Babajide Sanwo-Olu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) was announced as the winner of...

There has been a chorus of public indignation at the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, and the Nigeria Police Force over the reported cases of violence in some areas of Lagos during Saturday’s governorship and house of assembly election Yesterday, social media was awash with reports and videos of hoodlums disrupting the law and order in various polling units across the state. Igbo residents from the southeastern part of the country were intimidated and bullied...

Nollywood actor Desmond Elliot has won his third term bid to represent the Surulere 1 constituency at the Lagos State house of assembly. Elliot who has occupied the position in the last eight years under the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC, defeated his colleague Olumide Oworu, a firebrand ‘Obidient’ that contested on the platform of the Labour Party (LP), at the polls. In a Facebook post on Sunday, Elliot appreciated his constituents for...

Bayo Onanuga, director of media of the presidential campaign council of the All Progressives Congress (APC) says Igbo are aliens in Lagos state and should be excluded from the politics of the state. Onanuga made the comment on Saturday night as his contribution to the ethnic controversies that marred Saturday’s governorship and house of assembly election in Lagos. Yesterday’s election in Lagos witnessed an unprecedented level of violence and voter intimidation spurred by ethnic sentiments....

Two Nigerian tech experts have created an online platform for the collation and transmission of the results of the ongoing general election directly from polling units. The platform known as Collate Africa was created by Oo Nwoye, the founder and executive director of TechCircle and Ozo Omosigho. Nwoye, in an interview on ARISE TV yesterday, said Collate was designed to allow Nigerians independently and anonymously upload the election results from the 176,846 polling units across...

Though one of the most fundamental government bodies with the responsibility of protecting the people and maintaining peace and order, the image of the Nigeria Police Force has been maligned given its continued silence in the face of the ever-increasing tension ahead of the March 18 election. Less than 48 hours to the governorship and Houses of Assembly election, Musiliu Akinsanya, the Lagos State Parks Management Committee chairman also known as MC Oluomo, in a...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has concluded the re-configuration of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) machines used for the February 25 presidential and National Assembly elections. The commission has also begun the deployment of the BVAS machines to states on Wednesday ahead of Saturday’s governorship and states’ House of Assembly election. It is to be recalled that INEC had shifted the gubernatorial election by one week due to a delay in commencing the...