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Nigeria’s senior national team last played earlier in March in the Cyprus Women’s Cup where they finished seventh after winning two games from four. Although it is not the only factor, their performance in the Cyprus Women’s Cup which they used as part of preparations ahead of the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup still made […]
The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has won a commanding majority of the ninth Senate that will be inaugurated on June 9, 2019. According to the results officially announced for the February 23 National Assembly elections across the country, APC won 63 seats while the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) won 37 seats. The […]
Canada’s High Commission in Nigeria has certified Nigeria’s 2019 general elections to be credible, despite admitting that it was also plagued by logistical challenges, irregularities and violence. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) conducted Presidential and National Assembly elections on February 23, and conducted Governorship and State House of Assembly elections two weeks later on […]
Millions of Nigerians trooped to the polls to elect new governors or re-elect incumbents in 29 states across Nigeria on Saturday, March 9, 2019. Below is a list of winners that have been officially announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC): Abia State Okezie Ikpeazu – Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) – 261,127 votes Governor […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari has promised to do his best to improve Nigeria before he retires to his native Daura, Katsina State after the end of his second term. The president won the recently-conducted presidential election and will be sworn in for a second term on May 29, 2019 even though his victory is being contested […]
Osinbajo said the support would allow for effective use of the nations resources. Speaking to a mammoth crowd of APC supporters during the party’s Rally at Ikpoba Okha, Benin, on Thursday, Osinbajo said the Next level was about spending the nations resources to secure a better future for the country. He said the reason the […]
Leader of the group, Sulaiman Alhassan, alleged that their colleague, Mustapha Ingawa, was arrested and tortured to death by a combined team of the Guards Brigade and the Nigerian Police Force. Members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) scheme on Thursday protested the gruesome killing of one of their colleagues by the Guards Brigade […]
Mr Kragha Anibor, NNPC Chief Operating Officer, Refineries disclosed this at a panel session at the ongoing Nigerian International Petroleum summit (NIPS), on Wednesday, in Abuja. The panel discussed the topic Refining, Transportation and petrochemical. He said that the major problem of the corporation to bring the refineries to work was funding adding that government […]
“Nigerian refugees continue to arrive in very remote and impoverished communities in neighbouring countries. An estimated 30,000 have fled the city of Rann over the weekend alone to seek refuge across the Cameroonian border,” Babar Baloch, spokesman of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), said. The United Nations says about 30,000 people fled […]
The Court of Appeal in Abuja has ruled in favour of former Cross River State governor, Donald Duke, as the authentic presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) for the 2019 presidential election. Despite winning the party’s ticket in October 2018, an FCT High Court in Maitama had declared his victory null and void […]