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Tending to newsmen in the wake of making his choice at his polling unit in Daura Katsina state yesterday April 11th, President-elect Gen Buhari is cited as saying by Tribune that PDP defectors ought not expect automatic appointment as ministers ...

Huge protest presently progressing in Uyo the Capital of Akwa Ibom State over yesterday’s races in the State. Angry dissidents are demanding that a new election be conducted in the State. They are requesting that the decision which they say ...

Ibikunle Amosun of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has been declared winner of the 2015 elections in Ogun State. The INEC Returning Officer who announced the result in Abeokuta, the state capital, said Mr Amosun clinched 306,988 votes closest to ...

Jesusegun, Osun: Names/Parties of winners in Osun State House of Assembly election: Boripe/Boluwaduro Constituency: Mr. Osuolale Bello (APC) Ifelodun Constituency: Mr. Rasheed Afolabi (APC) Ila Constituency: Mr. Ademola Akanni (APC) Ifedayo Constituency: Mr. Olanrewaju Azeez (APC) Irepodun/Orolu Constituency: Mr. Oyedele ...

Twitter user, @CharlieAnekwe tells an amazing story of how some children were miraculously saved from an impending disaster. See his tweets after the cut…

Politics issues should never be a do-or-die thing people, why the anarchy? There were various political conflicts in Rivers state (and different parts of Nigeria) yesterday. Here are a few pics of a percentage of the loss in Rivers. Keep ...

John Oyegun, the national chairman of APC said today Saturday April 11th that the gale of defections by politicians was not good for Nigeria’s political development. Mr. Oyegun, who spoke to newsmen in Benin shortly after casting his vote, advised ...

Director of Media and Publicity of the Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Campaign Organisation, Chief  Femi Fani-Kayode, has said the candidates of the party will win some seats in the Osun State House of Assembly. Fani-Kayode said this in an interview with ...

Five persons have been feared killed in Akwa Ibom State during the governorship and state House of Assembly elections on Saturday. A reporter with one of the local tabloids, Radar Newspaper, Mr. Aniedi Ukoenang’s whereabouts is unknown. The killings occurred ...

Assistant Inspector General of Police, Zone 2, Joseph Mbu, has said the threat he issued to kill 10 people for every policeman killed made the conduct of the Lagos State election peaceful. Mbu spoke on Saturday at the state’s Command ...