POLICE have arrested a total of 128 persons across the country for election-related offences and recovered 38 assorted weapons from them with a view to prosecuting them for a variety of offences related to yesterday's polls.
SENATE president Senator Bukola Saraki has lost his seat in yesterday's National Assembly elections losing out to the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate Dr Yahaya Oloriegbe who polled 123,828 votes to Senator Saraki's 68,994 votes.
BOTH the main opposition the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) are claiming victory in yesterday's elections after counting and collation of results began today.
NIGERIA's main opposition the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has warned that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) plans to take over the studios of AIT Television to prevent it from announcing the results of yesterday's elections.
VOTERS in the Benue South Senatorial District are having to go through the odd experience of participating in an election that does not include former senate president Senator David mark who has been their lawmaker since the return to democracy in 1999.
PEOPLES Democratic Party (PDP) vice presidential candidate Peter Obi has accused security forces in his native Anambra State harassing him and his supporters in the run-up to today's elections.
BORNO State capital Maiduguri is feared to have been rocked by a bomb blast early this morning with eyewitnesses reporting loud explosions and the exchange of artillery fire around the city centre.
NIGERIA'S main opposition the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has threatened to pull out of the recent peace pact it signed with the government and withdraw from the agreement it signed with the government following the arrest of several of its members by security forces.
INDIGENOUS People of Biafra (Ipob) leader Nnamdi Kanu has finally urged his supporters to vote for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate Alhaji Atiku Abubakar in today's election saying a vote for President Muhammadu Buhari would be akin to voting for the Nazi party.
NIGERIA'S main opposition the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has accused the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) of planning to dethrone traditional rulers in Bauchi State who refuse to back the government.
POLICE have arrested a total of 128 persons across the country for election-related offences and recovered 38 assorted weapons from them with a view to prosecuting them for a variety of offences related to yesterday's polls.
SENATE president Senator Bukola Saraki has lost his seat in yesterday's National Assembly elections losing out to the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate Dr Yahaya Oloriegbe who polled 123,828 votes to Senator Saraki's 68,994 votes.
BOTH the main opposition the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) are claiming victory in yesterday's elections after counting and collation of results began today.
NIGERIA's main opposition the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has warned that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) plans to take over the studios of AIT Television to prevent it from announcing the results of yesterday's elections.
VOTERS in the Benue South Senatorial District are having to go through the odd experience of participating in an election that does not include former senate president Senator David mark who has been their lawmaker since the return to democracy in 1999.
PEOPLES Democratic Party (PDP) vice presidential candidate Peter Obi has accused security forces in his native Anambra State harassing him and his supporters in the run-up to today's elections.
BORNO State capital Maiduguri is feared to have been rocked by a bomb blast early this morning with eyewitnesses reporting loud explosions and the exchange of artillery fire around the city centre.
NIGERIA'S main opposition the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has threatened to pull out of the recent peace pact it signed with the government and withdraw from the agreement it signed with the government following the arrest of several of its members by security forces.
INDIGENOUS People of Biafra (Ipob) leader Nnamdi Kanu has finally urged his supporters to vote for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate Alhaji Atiku Abubakar in today's election saying a vote for President Muhammadu Buhari would be akin to voting for the Nazi party.
NIGERIA'S main opposition the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has accused the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) of planning to dethrone traditional rulers in Bauchi State who refuse to back the government.
