Edo election: Mr Godwin Noghaghese Obaseki, the governorship candidate of the APC is cruising towards victory as he had won 11 out of the 18 Local Government Areas of the state in the results so far released by the INEC. Governorship candidate of the PDP, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu and his supporters are already kicking against […]

Edo election Video: Protests in the streets of Edo over Result

Edo election: Benin Disputed National Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Sen. Ali Modu Sheriff, said he did not support Thursday’s rejection of the yet-to-be-declared result of Wednesday’s governorship election in Edo. He said that the rejection of the result ahead of its declaration by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) was preemptive. PDP in […]

Mr Anselm Ojezua, Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Edo chapter, has described the rejection of the state governorship election results by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as an act of a bad loser.

Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has faulted the continuous detention of the immediate past Governor of Katsina State, Ibrahim Shema by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), describing it as further demonstration of the anti-graft agency’s lack of respect for the fundamental rights of Nigerians as provided by the country’s 1999 constitution.

Esan West LGA: AA – 4, ACD – 65, ACPN – 172, APC – 13,114, APGA – 36, CPP – 13, ID – 12, KOWA – 1, LP – 5, NPPP – 27, NCP – 13, NNPP – 6, PDC – 79, PDP – 16,311, PPA – 49, PPN – 2, SDP – 2, UPP […]

The Federal Government has declared Monday, October 3, as Public Holiday to mark Nigeria’s 56th Independence Anniversary.

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has rejected the results of the Edo governorship election held on Wednesday, ahead of the announcement of the outcome.

United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the Department for International Development DFID, have said raised alarm that Nigeria’s maternal mortality rate has risen to 10 percent where about 111 women die on daily basis.

Edo Election: Protesters from Esan West and Esan East local government areas are protesting at the Independent National Electoral Commission’s Office in Benin, where collation of results of Wednesday’s governorship election in the state is ongoing. They are demading that INEC to stop the announcement of the Edo election results from Esan West and Esan […]

Independence Day Special Publication *I am not advocating for a parliamentary system. I am ok with the presidential system, but it doesn’t have to have two chambers with full-time legislators assigned with a lot of staff, having staff at home and staff in Abuja. *You cannot have situations where people can come and roughshod over […]

The Justice Now Foundation, JNF, a civil society organization based in Osogbo, Osun State has frowned at an editorial recenlty published in a national daily, not Vanguard, stating that Osun State Governor, Rauf Aregbesola lavished billons on bullet proof cars for his personal use.

Domestic airlines operating in Nigeria recorded 16,353 cases of delayed flights between January and June, statistics from the Consumer Protection Department of Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) have revealed.

AMONG other perspectives, society is said to be a construct of conflicting interests and influences. The combination of such divergent energies invariably powers the locomotive that takes society in the direction and destination, which its leaders and inhabitants and even ‘well-wishers’ are willing and prepared to steer it.

Nkemdili Okeke (not real name) is a secondary school certificate holder, who got married in 2011 at the age of 25, to a wealthy businessman in the South-East Nigeria.