Agian, FG blocks 3.8m cyberattacks during Governorship Poll The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, has revealed that a total of 3,834,244 attacks originating within and outside Nigeria were blocked during the governorship and state assembly elections. Pantami said the blockage was facilitated by cyberspace infrastructure put in place by the government to monitor activities in the nation’s cyberspace before, during and after the elections. He said a standing Committee put together by the Federal Government with the mandate to secure the nation’s cyberspace consolidated its efforts as recorded during the presidential election to ensure that Nigeria’s cyberspace…
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Dr Alex Otti The Labour Party candidate, Alex Otti, has been declared the winner of the Abia State governorship election following the eventual declaration, on Wednesday, of the results of the controversial Obingwa Local Government Area results. With the conclusion of the collation of the outstanding results of the election, the Peoples Democratic Party scored 9,962 votes and while the Labour Party, 3,776 votes in the LGA. Consequently, the LP has won in 10 LGAs, the PDP in six LGAs, and the Young Peoples Party in one LGA. The governorship candidate of the Labour Party in Abia State, Chief Alex…
Ebonyi State Governor David Umahi and Senator-elect for Ebonyi South Senatorial zone, has declared interest to contest for the position of the President of the 10th Senate. Umahi declared interest in the top job on Wednesday during a live broadcast held at the State executive council chambers, Centenary City, Abakaliki. He, however, said he would only join the race if it’s zone to the South-East zone. The Governor called on the leadership of the party and the president-elect and his Vice to zone the position of the president of the 10th Senate to the South East zone for equity, fairness…
Femi Fani-Kayode, an All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain, has mocked ‘Obidients,’ supporters of Peter Obi, the Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party (LP). Daily Trust reports that LP is yet to win one state more than 72 hours after the March 18 governorship elections. With the effervescent support garnered by Obi in the February 25 presidential election, many Nigerians had anticipated that the LP would produce some governors having won 11 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) in the presidential poll three weeks ago. However, with the results of 24 out of the 28 governorship elections already announced…
Some protesters have stormed the National Assembly complex in Abuja over the just concluded presidential election in Nigeria. The protesters carried placards with the inscriptions such as ‘Save our Democracy’, “INEC + Corruption, Politicians are killing our Democracy,” and “INEC killing the Nigerian Democracy.” Meridianspy reports that some of the women were crying and laying curses. This is coming less than 24 hours after a similar protest erupted over the outcome of the just-concluded presidential election at the Unity Fountain in Abuja.
Former Real Madrid and Arsenal player, Mesut Ozil has disclosed his retirement from football. The 34-year-old spent eight years at the Emirates Stadium after a £42.5million switch to North London from Spanish giants Real Madrid in 2013. Ozil disclosed his retirement via his official Twitter account (@M10) on Wednesday. As a player, he won four FA Cup titles for Arsenal before joining Fenerbahce in January 2021. “After thoughtful consideration, I’m announcing my immediate retirement from professional football. “I’ve had the privilege to be a professional football player for almost 17 years now and I feel incredibly thankful for…
Seven governorship candidates in Kaduna State have rejected the election declaration by the Independent National Electoral Commission, announcing Senator Uba Sani of the All Progressives Congress candidate, as governor-elect in the state. The candidates, under the aegis of ‘Rescue and Rebuild Gubernatorial Candidates Forum,’ said they rejected the result because there were massive cancellation of votes in most local government areas of the state. The governorship candidates were among the nine that endorsed the Peoples Democratic Party governorship candidate, Isah Kudan prior to Saturday’s governorship election. They are Young Progressives Party, Allied Peoples Movement, Action Peoples Party, National Rescue Movement,…
Economists have faulted the Monetary Policy Committee of the Central Bank of Nigeria over its decision to increase the benchmark interest rate by 50 basis points to 18 per cent from 17.5 per cent. The experts spoke in reaction to the lending rate announced by the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, on Tuesday. Emefiele, while reading the communiqué of the second MPC meeting of the year on Tuesday, said the slight increase was meant to mitigate the effect of inflation and other economic challenges. He said, “The MPC committee voted to raise the MPR by 50…
At least 12 people were killed in Afghanistan and Pakistan by a strong earthquake felt across thousands of kilometres, but the appeared Wednesday to have dodged the mass casualties usually associated with a tremor of such scale. The United States Geological Survey said the magnitude 6.5 quake was centred near Jurm in northeastern Afghanistan, but the depth of 187 kilometres (116 miles) mitigated extensive damage. The quake, which struck around 09:30 pm Kabul time on Tuesday and lasted more than 30 seconds, was felt from central Asia to New Delhi in India — more than 2,000 km away. “It was…
The Presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has dismissed Bola Tinubu’s call for healing after a violent election as the height of hypocrisy. He, however, commended the United States Government for condemning the outbreak of violence during the election. Tinubu had in a statement he personally signed said he was saddened by the infractions in some states as well as the divisive rhetoric that characterised the polls. Atiku’s Special Assistant on Public Communication, Mr. Phrank Shaibu, in a statement on Tuesday, however, described Tinubu’s statement as an after-thought and hypocritical garbage. be slammed with visa bans should…
Nigeria Bar Association, NBA, has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to quickly declare the results of Abia State governorship election held on Saturday to avoid bloodbath in the state. Similarly, Abia State human rights and pro- democracy groups have called on the INEC to save the state from avoidable crisis by resolving the logjam over the March 18 governorship election. Also Read: Obi wants INEC to Declare Abia, Enugu Result without Delay Ejimofor who read from a prepared text said:”We have noted with sadness, the controversy surrounding the 18th March 2023 Abia Governorship election and wish to state…
The Presidential Candidate Of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has responded to allegations of ethno-religious bigotry against him by Senator Chimaroke Nnamani. Nnamani, had in a statement on Monday accused Obi of whipping up ethnic and religious sentiments in his quest to win the presidency. The ex- Enugu State Governor accused Obi of exploiting the nation’s fault lines to advance his personal cause. Nnamani, who lost his re-election bid to a candidate of the Labour Party last Saturday, accused Obi of other sundry infractions. In response, Obi in a letter addressed to Nnamani, a known acolyte of the President-Elect, Asiwaju…