The Adamawa State chapter of the All Progressive Congress , APC, has rejected the March 28 date fixed by Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, for supplementary poll in the State. Ahmed Lawal, the APC Organizing Secretary, made the party’s stance known during an interview on Tuesday with NAN in Yola, the Adamawa State capital. According to Lawal, INEC didn’t consult the party before fixing the new date. He also said there was a contray information about the date of the supplementary polls in the state. “INEC failed to consult with political parties involved in this election before going ahead to…
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Dr Ifeanyi Ubah a senator who would be representing the people of Anambra south in the 9th Assembly has left his party, Young Peoples Party (YPP) for the All Progressive Congress (APC), MERIDIAN SPY can reliably report. The National Chairman of the APC Mr Adams Oshiomhole announced Uba’s defection from YPP to APC at a meeting President Muhammadu Buhari had with APC senators-elect in Aso Rock on Monday night. This is coming barely four days after Dr Ubah denied plans to dump the party for any other party. At a press conference on Friday, Ubah had said: “I am not…
A woman, Ibukun Adebayo is fighting for her life in a hospital after being allegedly hacked with a cutlass by her estranged husband, Kehinde Adebayo. Kehinde, it was gathered, accused his wife of engaging in extra-marital affairs with men. The attack has left Ibukun with severe injuries on her face and other parts of her body. The incident happened at about 8pm on February 28 in the Saraki area of Adigbe in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital. The situation allegedly worsened after Kehinde allegedly beat up Ibukun in a house she built forcing her to move out to a…
The Osun State Governor, Adegboyega Oyetola, has reacted to tribunal ruling sacking him as governor of the state. An Osun governorship tribunal had on Friday sacked him and declared Ademola Adeleke of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, winner of the last governorship election in the state. Reacting, Oyetola vowed to challenge the ruling of tribunal at the Appeal Court. A statement by Wole Oyebamiji, Secretary to the State Government of Osun, said the judgment of the election tribunal had been put on appeal. Oyetola expressed hope that “justice would prevail at last.” He also disclosed that law enforcement agencies…
The Osun State Governorship Election Tribunal has declared Ademola Adeleke of the PDP as the winner of the controversial state election. The tribunal also declared the September 27 rerun election in the state illegal. The three-man panel of the Tribunal gave the judgement on Friday following the petition filed by the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Senator Ademola Adeleka against the All Progressives Congress, APC and its candidate, Gboyega Oyetola. The Tribunal also ruled that PDP and Adeleke proved that it was the state Returning Officer who cancelled the results in 7 Polling Units, adding that the…
A medical doctor at a public hospital in Sokoto State, Tijjani Faruk, has thrown the Sokoto medical community into grief after confessing to raping a married woman after administering sedative injection on her. Mr Faruk took both the code of medical ethics in Nigeria and the Hippocratic Oath to the cleaners when he invited his patient on the pretext of further medical examination but ended up raping her. In an interview with DAILY NIGERIAN, the husband of the patient, simply identified as Alhaji Shehu, said he was referred to the doctor by a family friend when his wife was diagnosed…
Barely 72 hours after a three-storeyed building collapsed in Ita Faji area, Lagos Island, another building has collapsed in Ibadan, Oyo State. The incident occurred in Bode area of Ibadan on Friday. At the time of this report, the casualty toll was not ascertained, but a crowd is currently gathered at the scene of the building collapse. Details later… Source: Sahara Reporters
The Lagos state government has commenced the demolition of buildings likely to collapse at Lagos Island. Government officials are currently pulling down such houses on Freeman street in Ita Faji area. The development comes two days after a three-storey building on Massey street in the same area, caved in. Twelve people, including nine children were killed in the incident while 50 were rescued.
Human rights activist, Deji Adeyanju has extolled prophet T B Joshua of the Synagogue Church of All Nations, for encouraging him while he was in the Kano prison, MERIDIAN SPY reports. Adeyanju who denounced his membership from “Our Mumu Don Do” movement, on Tuesday, said this on his verified Twitter handle on Friday. He thanked the controversial prophet and other men of God who stood by him during his trying moments in Kano prison. In subtle emphasis, Mr Adeyanju, once again alleged that while some men of God and other Nigerians of goodwill stood by him in his trying time,…
Lagos State Governor-elect, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has donated a brand-new 26 seaters bus to Bethesda Home for the Blind Lagos. The donation, we gathered was in fufilment of his promise to the home during the electioneering campaign period. The bus was test-driven by the Governor-elect, his Deputy, Babafemi Hamzat, and their wives, alongside students of the school. The students and management of the school extolled the Governor-elect for his humanitarian gestures and the efforts put in place to make good his promise. Mr Sanwo-Olu had defeated, Lagos renowned pharmacist cum politician, Jimi Agbaje of the PDP in the March 9 gubernatorial…
Muhammadu Buhari, the candidate of the of the All Progressives Congress (APC), and incumbent president, has been declared winner of the 2019 presidential election held on Saturday across the country. Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmood Yakubu who doubles as the Returning Officer for the presidential polls, declared Mr Buhari winner in the early hours of Wednesday after the state by state collation process at the INEC National Collation Centre Abuja. “I, Professor Mahmood Yakubu hereby certify that I was the returning officer for the election held on the 23rd of February, 2019. “That Muhammadu Buhari…
The Peoples Democratic Party presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, narrowly won the presidential election in Edo state with 7,849 votes more than his main rival, President Muhammadu Buhari. The State Collation Officer for the Presidential election, Ndowa Lale, announced at the Independent National Electoral Commission headquarters in Benin that Mr Atiku scored 275,691 votes, while Mr Buhari of the All Progressives Congress scored 267,842 votes. However, Mr Buhari beat Mr Atiku in the number of councils won. He won in 10 while Atiku won in eight. Mr Lale, who is the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Port-Harcourt, said the total number…