Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, had announced the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and incumbent President, Muhammadu Buhari, as winner with 15,191,847, defeating 72 other candidates, while Atiku scored 11,262,978 votes.

BARRING any last-minute force majeure that might come from the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC(which has formed the habit of postponing major elections), all is set for the Governorship and State Houses of Assembly polls.

UNDER the Federal Road Safety Commission Act, Part 11, Section 4 (t), “carrying passengers or loads in excess of the number a particular vehicle is licensed to carry” is a serious traffic offence.

Once the President is sworn-in for a second term on May 29, 2019 he should be ready for serious business. His cabinet should be ready for submission to the Senate, and a fine-tuned agenda to improve on the performances of the past four years should be immediately activated.

During the Presidential and National Assembly elections on February 23, 2019, among scores of people killed was an ad hoc electoral officer of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Ms. Ibisiki Amachree, who was reportedly hit by a stray bullet in Rivers State. About 13, 637 corps members were mobilised as INEC ad hoc staff for the 2019 general elections.

ONE of the ugly sides of the recently-concluded Presidential and National Assembly elections held on Saturday, February 23, 2019, was the reported ethnic tensions arising from the alleged harassment and disenfranchisement of a section of the non-indigenous ethnic groups in some parts of Lagos.

THE Presidential and National Assembly elections have come and gone. Winners and losers as announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, have also emerged. The winner of the presidential election, President Muhammadu Buhari, has already been issued with his Certificate of Returns by INEC.

THE Academic Union of Universities, ASUU, on Thursday, February 7, 2019, called off the strike it embarked upon on November 4, 2018 shortly after resumption from the long holidays.

From all indications, our ambition of meeting and even surpassing the success of the 2015 general elections that brought President Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress, APC, to power was dashed last weekend.

Expatriates linked to the oil industry and some workers in the upstream sector were often kidnapped for ransom. The militants resorted to this crime as their own way of getting back at those who allegedly mindlessly exploited the resources of their communities without helping to develop them or employ the indigenes.