*2023 Election: INEC Announces Resumption Of Voter Registration, Earmarks N1billio* Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Mahmood Yakubu has announced the resumption time for voter registration. Professor Yakubu stated that the Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) exercise will commence in the first quarter of 2021 ahead of the 2023 general election. The sum…
A Nigerian woman, Esther Agbaje has been elected into the Minnesota House of Representatives in Tuesday’s U.S. general elections. Agbaje who will be representing District 59B in the 134-member House on the platform of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL), an affiliate of the U.S. Democratic Party, won by a landslide polling 17,396 votes or 74.7 percent of…
Joe Biden’s White House campaign slammed US President Donald Trump’s threat to try to stop the election vote count as “outrageous” early Wednesday, saying its legal team was ready to prevent such an “unprecedented” act. “The president’s statement tonight about trying to shut down the counting of duly cast ballots was outrageous, unprecedented, and incorrect,”…
Much to the surprise of many Americans invested in the Donald Trump/Joe Biden electoral competition, some people voted for Kanye West. West is running under The American Independent Party. According to Houston Chronicle, early voting numbers showed the rapper-turned-presidential candidate garnered 0.1 percent of the ballots cast in Louisiana, 0.3 percent in Oklahoma, 0.3 percent…
President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden are battling it out for the White House, with polls gradually closing across the United States Tuesday and a long night of waiting for results ahead. The first results are trickling in, with US media projecting wins for the Republican incumbent so far in 13 states including…
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has warned about a potential violent clash linked to November 3rd US election in Portland, Oregon. The northwestern city which has become symbolic of the country’s stark divisions, is in the liberal enclave in the state of Oregon. The city is said to still be reeling from a summer that…
The President of Ivory Coast, Alassane Ouattara has been declared the winner of the presidential poll. Ibrahime Coulibaly-Kuibiert, head of the electoral commission, announced in a broadcast Tuesday morning. The commission said the incumbent got 94.27 percent of the votes in Saturday’s election. Turnout was low; 53.9 percent of registered voters showed up. The victory…
Founder of the Citadel Global Church, Pastor Tunde Bakare, has said that President Muhammadu Buhari may end up not leaving any legacy behind after ruling Nigeria as a military and democratically elected President. Bakare, Buhari’s running mate for the 2011 presidential election, charged the President to work hard on the legacy that would outlive him….
Sam Adeyemi, the Senior Pastor of Daystar Christian Centre, has urged Nigerian youths to continue to insist on the government’s implementation of the 5for5 demands. Following the End SARS protests, youths had presented the five demands to the Federal Government. However, Adeyemi urged the youths to use the opportunity they currently have to push for…
Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the October 10, 2020 governorship poll in Ondo State, Eyitayo Jegede has filed petitions at the Election Tribunal to challenge the victory of Governor Rotimi Akeredolu at the election. The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, had declared Akeredolu winner of the governorship election held in Ondo State….