Following allegations of irregularities, Comrade Edwin Omoregie, Labour Party (LP) chairmanship candidate for Ovia North East local government area, thirteen councilorship candidates and the leadership of the party in the area on Tuesday called for the cancellation of the just concluded local government council election in the state for a fresh election. The aggrieved politicians described last Saturday’s election in which the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidates were declared winners in the 18 local government...

Ahead of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal (PEPT) judgment scheduled to be passed on Wednesday, the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) has strengthened its deployment across the length and breadth of the country. ACP Adejobi Olumuyiwa, Force Spokesperson said in a statement on Tuesday that, this is in a bid to fortify security architecture and forestall any breakdown of law and order across the country. According to him, “The Police wish to reiterate the commitment to...

Chief Bode George, Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has told the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal (PEPT) to call for a fresh election, pointing out that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) told Nigerians that there was a glitch during the election process. George spoke on Channels TV on Tuesday stressing that he wasn’t asking the tribunal to declare the PDP, the Labour Party (LP) or anybody as winner but in the...

The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal will deliver judgment on petitions challenging the declaration of Bola Tinubu as the winner of the February 25 presidential election on Wednesday, September 6. Tinubu’s election is being challenged in court by his major rivals in the election Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP), and a less-known political party, the Allied Peoples Movement (APM). The judgment date was announced in...

The plans for violent protests by some elements in parts of the country have been uncovered by the Department of State Services (DSS). DSS Public Relations Officer, Peter Afunanya, on Monday in a statement said the security outfit uncovered the violent protest which aims to discredit the Federal Government and security agencies over sundry socio-economic matters. The statement reads in part: “Intelligence reports have indicated that the plotters include certain politicians who are desperately mobilizing...

President Bola Tinubu will depart Abuja on Monday to attend the G-20 Leaders’ Summit in New Delhi, India, on the special invitation of Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi. The President, on the sidelines of the summit will participate and deliver keynote addresses at both the Nigeria-India Presidential Roundtable and the Nigeria-India Business Conference. The CEO Roundtable will be attended by leading industrialists in the Indian private sector, Nigerian industrialists, as well as senior government officials...