Governor Hope Uzodimma of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, emerged the winner of Saturday’s off-cycle governorship poll in Imo State. The sitting governor secured another four-year term in office with 540,308 votes, according to official results announced by the returning officer for the Imo State governorship election, Professor Abayomi Fasina. Governor Uzodimma’s opponents Samuel Anyanwu of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and Athan Achonu of Labour Party, LP, polled 71,503 and 64,081 votes respectively....

Dr Bello Matawalle, Minister of State for Defence, has identified conflict entrepreneurs as responsible for unending banditry in the North-West. Matawalle said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), in Abuja. “Banditry has its economy, which is fuelling the crime in the country. “Conflict entrepreneurs don’t want insecurity to finish in this country. Many people in the North are part of the business. “I call it business now, because those selling...

The Catholic Bishop of Awka Diocese, Most Reverend Dr. Paulinus Ezeokafor, says the Nigerian judiciary, especially in the matters concerning the last presidential election, has put itself in a serious ridicule. In his message at Saint Patrick’s Cathedral, Awka during a eucharistic celebration to mark the beginning of 2023/2024 Legal year, Bishop Ezeokafor regretted that while many countries are developing because they give primacy to the rule of law and faithful enforcement of the law;...

Former President Goodluck Jonathan has called on the National Assembly to take appropriate legislative measures to stop off-cycle elections in the country. Jonathan made the remark at his Otuoke country home, after casting his vote at polling unit 39 in Otazi Ward 13, Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa during the governorship election in the state. He said the National Assembly should block the off-season election, because it was important for Nigeria to unify its...

The Katsina State Government has banned all forms of night gatherings with immediate effect. Bala Salisu Zango, the state Commissioner of Information and Culture in a statement issued on Friday said the regulation is aimed at mitigating potential risks associated with large crowds. He emphasized the state government’s commitment to ensuring the well-being of its citizens and urged strict compliance with the new measures. The release read in parts: “The directive encompasses a prohibition on...

…Promises commission will provide level playing field The chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Mahmood Yakubu, with less than 24 hours to the opening of ballots in the three off cycle governorship elections in Bayelsa, Kogi and Imo States, has charged the commission’s staff deployed for the elections to demonstrate highest level of patriotism and professionalism in the discharge of their responsibilities. Prof Yakubu, in a message he sent to the staff, restated...

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu signed the luxury N2.17 trillion Supplementary Appropriation Act on Wednesday following the passage of the bill by the Senate and the House of Representatives last week. The supplementary budget is to augment expenditures in the 2023 N21.83 trillion budget signed by ex-president Muhammadu Buhari who left office on May 29. “The budget seeks to strengthen Nigeria’s security architecture and address Nigeria’s critical infrastructure deficit, amongst other considerations,” presidential spokesperson Ajuri Ngelale...