The Independent National Electoral Commission has fixed April 15 for the conduct of all outstanding governorship, National, and State Assembly supplementary elections. This was made known by the Chief Press Secretary to the INEC Chairman, Rotimi Oyekanmi on Monday. Oyekanmi said, “Arising from its meeting held today, the Independent National Electoral Commission has decided that…
Mrs. Folashade Tinubu-Ojo, the daughter of President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has urged Nigerians to support and pray for her father to enable him to succeed when he is sworn in. She made this known during the 28th annual Ramadan Lecture and Special Prayer for the Nation organized by the Ansar-ud-Deen Society of Nigeria (ADSN) in…
Former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode has stated that ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo’s father might not be a Yoruba man. Fani-Kayode claimed that Obasanjo’s father may not be Yoruba because he kept silent when Igbo businessman Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu said that Yoruba people are political rascals. However, Ohanaeze has since clarified that Iwuanyanwu didn’t refer to Yorubas as…
The United Kingdom has hit out at Femi Fani-Kayode, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC. The UK slammed Fani-Kayode over controversial comments made during the electoral season. In an interview with Nigeria Info FM on Sunday, the British Deputy High Commissioner to Nigeria, Ben Llewellyn-Jones, faulted the APC presidential campaign council’s director of…
Bayo Onanuga, the Media Director of the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, has issued a fresh warning. He issued a warning to those describing his principal as a drug dealer. Onanuga warned that the days of those using some hashtags to blast Tinubu are numbered. He said those behind the hashtags would face the wrath of God…
The 33-year-old volunteer teacher, Lawan Musa Majakura, who defeated the Speaker of the Yobe State House of Assembly, Ahmed Mirwa Lawan, in the just concluded Governorship and State Assembly elections, has claimed that he was offered N100m to step down. Musa, of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), scored 6,648 votes to defeat Yobe Speaker of…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said that it will issue certificates of return to newly elected governors, deputy governors-elect and State Assembly members-elect from Wednesday, March 29, to Friday, March 31. In a statement released on Saturday, March 25, INEC National Commissioner, Festus Okoye said by the provisions of Section 72(1) of…
GIOTV reports that the daughter of the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, Mujidat Folashade Tinubu Ojo has urged Nigerians to support the government of her father which will take over on the 29th of May, 2023. Mujidat made this call on Saturday in Abuja at the Ansar-ud-Deen Society of Nigeria (ADSN) 28th annual Ramadan Lecture and Special…
Olusegun Obasanjo, a former President of Nigeria, has talked about the Governor of Anambra State, Professor Chukwuma Soludo. Obasanjo said that he was at one time against the ambition of the Soludo to to lead Anambra state as governor. The former president, who spoke in Awka, Anambra State capital, at an event to mark the…
Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the Nigerian President-elect, has raised an alarm. He raised alarm over alleged plots by some aggrieved partisans to truncate the transition process, particularly his expected swearing-in on May 29. Tinubu in a statement by his Director, Public Affairs and Minister of State Labour and Employment, Mr Festus Keyamo SAN also warned the…