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President, Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote has significantly moved up in the world billionaires’ list, as he emerged 64th richest person in the world, with an estimated networth of $16.6 billion, as against his previous ranking of 103rd in the world. Dangote, who remains the richest man in Africa for the eighth year running, was […]

The United Kingdom (UK) says Nigerians can have confidence in the outcome of the presidential election that held on Saturday. President Muhammadu Buhari, candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), won the election with Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) coming second. Harriett Baldwin, UK’s minister of state for Africa, in a statement […]

The Returning Officer for  Saturday’s Anambra South senatorial election, Prof Meshach Umenweke,  has written the Independent National Electoral Commission recanting his earlier declaration of the candidate of the  Young Progressives Party, Ifeanyi Ubah,  as the winner of the poll. In the  letter,  he  claimed   the  election was inconclusive. He  also said he was forced  to  […]

The Returning Officer for the Imo West senatorial election on Saturday, Prof Innocent Ibeawuchi,  has alleged  that he  was forced to declare Governor Rochas Okorocha  the winner  of the poll by the  supporters of the All Progressives Congress candidate. According to the result, Okorocha polled  97,762 votes to  win the election ahead  of the Peoples […]

The Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki, has lost the Kwara Central Senatorial District election to Ibrahim Oloriegbe of the All Progressives Congress (APC). The Returning Officer, Professor Olawale Olatunbosun, announced this on Sunday shortly after collating the results of the election in the zone. According to him, Oloriegbe polled a total of 123,808 votes to defeat […]

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo was a victim of a malfunctioned card reader, as the machine rejected his fingerprint seven times, before the problem was eventually resolved. Mr Obasnjo later cast his votes at about 11.15 a.m yesterday. He voted at Ward 11, Polling Unit 22 in Olusomi compound, Totoro community in Abeokuta North Local Government […]

The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has won the elections in the polling units at the Presidential Villa, Abuja The Villa has two polling units: PU 021 and 022. Mr Abubakar scored 505 votes in PU 021 while the president scored 552 votes. In PU 022, Mr Abubakar scored 525 votes […]

The Canadian and British High Commissions have called on Nigerians to exercise their civil rights by going out to vote at the rescheduled February 23 presidential election. The Canadian Embassy via its Twitter handle @CanHCNigeria on Friday, said Nigerians would decide their future by coming out to vote on election day. The commission noted that […]

In the wake of gender equality and same-sex marriage, schools in France are taking an unusual turn to accommodate same-sex couples. France has introduced an amendment bill which will allow for the words “Father” and “Mother” to be replaced with parent 1 and parent 2 as an inclusive strategy for same-sex couples. According to The Scottish […]

Tunde Fashola, minister of power, works, and housing, has called on Nigerians to slow down on childbirth. The minister, who was a former governor of Nigeria’s most populated state, Lagos, said any culture that encourages birth without control is a culture that is unproductive. Speaking at Babatunde Raji Fashola (BRF) Gabfest 2019, Fashola said: “We […]

The presidential candidate of the African Action Congress, Omoyele Sowore, says President Muhammadu Buhari’s threat to ballot box snatchers is aimed at scaring away voters on election day. Sowore said if Buhari was sincere about stopping electoral malpractice, he would have focused on the sponsors of ballot box snatchers and not the actors only. The […]

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it has completed the configuration of smart card readers. The chairman of the commission, Mahmood Yakubu, said this at the commission’s third press briefing after the postponement of the elections. On Tuesday at its second briefing, the commission said the configuring of the Smart Card Readers was 95 […]

Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno State says he will be going back to Gamboru Ngala in a non-bullet vehicle next week despite the recent attack on his convoy by members of Boko Haram’s Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) faction. Mr Shettima said this when he fielded questions from State House correspondents at the end […]

The Nigerian Army has reacted to a controversial statement issued by President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday that all those planning to snatch ballot boxes may be carrying out their last illegal acts. The comment is already generating heated debates in the polity with many saying the president’s statement is a veiled sanction to security operatives […]

A university lecturer ‎ Dr Auwal Sani Salihu, has said six out of 10 women are suffering from mental illnesses while four out of 10 men also suffer from the same illnesses in Nigeria. Dr Auwal, said this in Kaduna at a workshop on mental illness organised by the Federal Nuero Psychiatric Hospital, Kware,  Sokoto […]