An agent of the Peoples Democratic Party, one Mr Tambari Ntoti, has been reportedly shot dead in the course of the ongoing rerun election in rivers state.

Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has said the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, was not prepared for the Federal and State Houses of Assembly re-run elections in the state.

A group of voters suspected to be loyal to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, have protested alleged distribution of fake result sheets in Tai, Gokana and Khana Local Government Areas of the state.

Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, on Saturday, was captured casting his votes at Obio Akpor Ward 9 Unit 7 amid tight security.

The Ooni of Ife, Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi has appealed to all Nigerians, irrespective of religious, ethnic and political differences to work diligently towards sustaining Nigeria’s hard-won unity.

Port Harcourt -The police in Rivers have said that there has not been any adverse security report in the on-going re-run legislative elections in the state. The Public Relations Officer of the Police Command in Rivers, DSP Ahmad Muhammad, said in Port Harcourt on Saturday that all was calm in the state. “We are in […]

The General Officer Commanding (GOC) 1 Division, Nigeria Army, Major Gen. Adeniyi Oyebade, on Friday said no fewer than 35 armed bandits have been killed in the last two months in the North West.

All the electoral material for the election have distributed Emohua Local Government Area.

There is uproar in Bonny Local Government Area of Rivers State following alleged distribution of fake result sheets in the area.

Hundreds of voters were at the RAC in Abalama community, Asari Toru local government area waiting for materials to be distributed to the 31 units of Ward 11.

There is heavy security presence around the Rivers State Governor, Chief Nyesom Wike’s father’s home, Rumuepirikom in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area, as he (Wike) arrives to exercise his constitutional right

The Transition Monitoring Group (TMG), a coalition of over 400 civil society organizations, weekend, discribed the recent shady recruitment exercise conducted by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) as a grand betrayal of a change mantra of the Buhari’s administration.

The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, yesterday pooh-poohed the reports credited to the Chief of Army Staff, COAS, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Yusuf Buratai, that Biafran agitators were killed in Aba, Abia State by armed soldiers over alleged provocation saying that the agitators were while praying for the repose of their colleagues earlier mowed down by security forces when the incident occured.

There are indications that there will be a structural political apathy in the today’s Federal and State Assembly rerun elections in Rivers State.

DEPUTY President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu gas blamed the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC for flouting the constitution and conducting rerun elections in the various State Houses of Assembly and the National Assembly, later than 30 days after elections had been nullified by the courts.