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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has given Certificate of Return to Ademola Adeleke, winner of Saturday’s governorship election in Osun State.   Adeleke received his Certificate of Return at the INEC State Office in Osogbo on Wednesday, following PDP’s victory at the Osun governorship election on Saturday. The presentation comes nearly four days after he was declared winner of ...

A Fulani socio-cultural group, Kulen Allah Cattle Rearers Association of Nigeria, (KACRAN), has tasked presidential candidates to fully incorporate livestock development in their policies and programs or risk losing their bloc votes in the forthcoming general elections. KACRAN’s National President, Hon. Khalil Mohd Bello gave the charge in a statement issued on Tuesday in Damaturu. The Association observed with dismay ...

  The Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) has said thousands of uncleared imported vehicles in Lagos State may be auctioned if the owners fail to comply with the newly introduced Vehicle Identification Number (VIN) valuation policy NCS Area Comptroller of Ports Terminal Multiservices Limited (PTML), Festus Oyedele Okun, put the number of the vehicles manufactured before 2013 at 7,000. “We have ...

Mojec International Ltd., the leading meter manufacturer in sub-Saharan Africa has successfully delivered on its meter allocation across the Distribution companies in Nigeria. This feat was achieved under the Federal Government initiated National Mass Metering Programme. The National Mass Metering Programme (NMMP), was introduced by the Federal Government to provide prepaid meters for customers and ease the financial burden associated ...

Kemi Nelson, an All Progressives Women leader and member, Governance Advisory Council, is dead. The former Executive Director of the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund who passed on at 66, was said to have been unwell for a while. She had undergone treatments at different hospitals for undisclosed ailments.   The deceased politician is survived by her three children

Senator Ademola Adeleke, the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has officially been declared the winner of the Saturday’s Osun State governorship election. Adeleke won 17 of the 30 Local Government Areas (LGAs) while the incumbent Governor, Adegboyega Oyetola of the All Progressives Congress (APC) won in the remaining 13 LGAs. Declaring the winner, Professor Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, the ...

Senator Ademola Adeleke, the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), is taking an early lead in the ongoing Osun gubernatorial election.   According to results posted on the portal of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Adeleke is leading the incumbent governor, Gboyega Oyetola of the All Progressives Congress (APC), with over 10,000 votes. So far, Adeleke has ...

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Court on Thursday declared the suspension of Twitter operations in June 2021 as unlawful and ordered the Nigerian Government not to give a similar order again.   This judgment was given in a suit filed by Chief Malcolm Emokiniovo Omirhobo, challenging the ban as a violation of his fundamental rights to freedom ...

The Federal Government has declared wanted all Boko Haram suspects who fled the Medium Security Custodial Centre in Kuje, Abuja. The inmates had escaped the correctional centre on Tuesday night after members of the Islamic for West Africa Province attacked the facility. According to the Minister of Defence, Maj Gen Bashir Magashi, all the Boko Haram terrorists kept in the facility ...

Nigerian government has declared Monday and Tuesday next week as public holidays to mark this year’s Eid-el-Kabir celebration for Muslims.   This was announced by the ministry of interior on Thursday.   “The Federal Government has declared Monday 11th and Tuesday 12th July, 2022, as public holidays to mark this year’s Eid-el-Kabir celebration,” the interior ministry wrote on its official ...