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…
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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…
Security operatives have arrested former chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Maurice Iwu. Family sources said Iwu was arrested in Owerri, the Imo State capital on Sunday and whisked away to Lagos. The source said the security operatives came from Port Harcourt and linked up with the Imo State Commissioner of Police, who telephoned Prof Iwu and invited him to Owerri. When Iwu came for the meeting, he was whisked away by security operatives and taken to the office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in Lagos. It was gathered that in Lagos, Prof Iwu…
Results for the 44 LGAs in Kano have been announced and Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), did not secure a single win in the state. President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has won in all the Local Government Areas of Kano State, according to the result of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).Results for the 44 LGAs in Kano have been announced and Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), did not secure a single win in the state.Kano State has 44 LGAs.See the breakdown below: 1. Garin Mallam…
Senatorial candidate of the ruling APC in the state, Abiola Ajimobi, has lost in all four Local Governments that constitute his senatorial district Official senatorial results from seven of the nine local governments in Oyo South Senatorial District have been announced.
Ike Ekweremadu, the Peoples Democratic Party candidate and deputy senate president has been declared winner of Enugu West Senatorial District for the fifth time in Saturday Presidential/National Assembly elections. Ekweremadu polled 86,088 votes to defeat his closest rival, Mrs Juliet Ibekaku-Nwagwu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) who scored 15,187 votes. The Returning Officer, Prof Douglas Nwagbo of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) announced the results in Awgu on Sundaya. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that with the victory, Ekweremadu holds the senatorial mandate for the 5th time. Reacting to the development, the deputy senate president said he…