Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has inaugurated his legal team to challenge the controversial presidential election of February 25, 2023. While inaugurating the legal team at his headquarters in Abuja, the former Vice President, charged the team to establish the claim of illegality in the February 25 presidential election and reclaim the mandate of the Nigerian people. He also told the team that apart from reclaiming the mandate from...

Ahead of the governorship and state Houses of Assembly elections, the Inspector-General of Police, (IGP) Usman Alkali Baba has charged all the Commissioners of Police (CPs) and Strategic Commanders posted for election duties to mobilise all resources at their disposal to defend the electorate, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) officials,  sensitive materials and the electoral process during the conduct of elections. Alkali Baba has also ordered strategic deployments in accordance with the developed standard operating...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has released a compiled list of the winners of the National Assembly polls. The National Assembly election was held alongside the presidential election on Saturday, February 25, 2023. The chairman of the INEC, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu declared Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the winner of the presidential election on Wednesday, March 1. On Tuesday, the electoral commission released a list of the senators-elect and the...

Ahead of the Saturday’s gubernatorial and State House of Assembly elections across the country, the Nigeria Police has banned the use of dogs and other pets at polling units. According to report from police source, the law enforcement agency described the act as criminal and condemnable, stressing that  it  deemed it necessary to educate and caution Nigerians on the use of pets, especially, dogs, at the polling units on election day, as such act runs...

A northern group, the Conference of Northern States Civil Society Networks has berated the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for performing below  expectation in the February 25th presidential and National Assembly elections. Ambassador Ibrahim Waiya, the chairman of the Conference, while briefing journalists in Kano, charged the electoral umpire to brace up to the challenges and perform better during next Saturday’s governorship and state Assembly elections in Nigeria. The chairman of the conference noted that...

The Edo State chapter of the Organised Civil Society Organisations (OCSO) has charged Edo State residents  to vote only credible candidates in the forthcoming governorship and House of Assembly elections. The group noted that it is another opportunity to elect credible candidates that would represent their interest in the state House of Assembly in the next four years. While addressing a world press conference in Benin, Marxist Kola Edokpayi who spoke on behalf of the...