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Akwa Ibom State The Independent National Election Commission (INEC) announced its official results of the presidential elections in Akwa Ibom State. The results show that President Goodluck Jonathan wins by a sizable margin in that State. APC = 58,411 PDP= ...

The Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi, has declared dusk-to-dawn curfew on Port Harcourt, the state capital, hours after the Independent National Electoral Commission announced the result of the presidential and National Assembly elections in the state. In a terse statement ...

The All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Muhammadu Buhari, has flogged his major rival President Goodluck Jonathan in Adamawa state, pulling 14 Local Governments areas in the state against seven won by the president. Declaring the result Monday evening, the state ...

Activities in the 20 local government areas of Ogun State were paralysed on Monday as the local government workers began an indefinite strike. The Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees, Ogun State branch, had on Friday directed that the entire ...

A staff the Independent National Electoral Commission was arrested on Monday at the commission’s office in Asaba for violating INEC’s rule on collation of results. The INEC staff, who served as the electoral officer for Ndokwa East Local Government Area, ...

President Goodluck Jonathan of the Peoples Democratic Party has won last Saturday’s presidential election in Rivers State with a total vote of 1,487,075. Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari(retd.) of the All Progressives Congress followed suit with 69,238 votes while KOWA party ...

4.06pm: The meeting just ended. The former African leaders adjudged election “peaceful and transparent.”  President Goodluck Jonathan is currently in a closed-door meeting with some foreigns observers who monitored Saturday’s presidential and National Assembly elections. The election observers at the ...

Presidential election results for six more local governments in Niger State have been collated in Minna, bringing total LG results announced to 21. Results for the remaining four LGs have yet to arrive. The Returning Officer for Niger State, Prof. ...

As announced by Prof. Adeniyi Daramola, VC of FUT, Akure , the Returning Officer for Ekiti state. AA – 94 votes ACPN – 538 AD – 754 ADC- 424 APA – 482 APC – 120, 331 CPP – 330 HDP- ...

As announced by the VC of University of Abuja, who is the Returning Officer for Kogi state AA – 700 ACPN – 1,089 AD – 427 ADC – 761 APA – 1,001 APC – 264,851 CPP – 967 HOPE – ...