The first round of the general election in Oyo State took off on a peaceful and orderly note yesterday with fairly impressive voters’ turnout at many polling stations. There was also noticeable improvement in punctuality and deployment of electoral officials and materials, unlike what was witnessed in the botched exercise on April 2. But there […]
Security agents, yesterday, foiled an attempt by a group of hoodlums at Bamgbose village in Odeda Local Government Area of Ogun State to snatch ballot boxes during voting in the National Assembly election. The hoodlums numbering about 12 had invaded a polling unit with machetes and knives among other dangerous weapons. Sunday Sun investigation revealed […]
A major upset appeared to be in the making as results of the National Assembly election, conducted yesterday, trickled in from the states. The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) is in early lead going from results from Ogun, Lagos, Edo and Osun. In the results released so far, former President Olusegun Obasanjo who doubles as […]
Ibadan, the hotbed of South West politics was alive on Saturday as its residents turned out in large number to elect those who would represent them at the National Assembly for another four years. In this report, Olaolu Oladipo who was in the former capital of the Old Western Region captures the mood of […]
Critical stakeholders in today’s election have unanimously rejected plans by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to conduct elections in two of the six federal constituencies in Ekiti State. The stakeholders, comprising the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Labour Party (LP), All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), Alliance for Democracy (AD), […]
THE Federal Government has mobilised additional security cover for the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) nationwide for the smooth conduct of today’s National Assembly election. A reliable presidency source, who disclosed this to Saturday Tribune, on Friday, in Abuja, said that the action followed renewed violence and interception of weapons and fake military uniforms in […]
Twenty-four hours after the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) announced the postponement of the National Assembly elections in some states, the Bauchi State Resident Electoral Commissioner, Senator Iliya Audu, also announced the postponement of the Bauchi South Senatorial District on Friday. The affected senatorial district was not included in the original list released by INEC […]
EVEN though voting in Taraba state commenced very late due to the late arrival of voting material, the exercise, as observed by The Guardian, was peacefully carried out. Accreditation which began at about 11.35 a.m in most of the polling units visited especially in the southern geo-political zone of the state, was hinged on the […]
TWO voters were shot dead in today’s National Assembly polls at Ogbe –Ogume in Ndokwa West local government area of Delta State, while vehicles and electoral materials, belonging to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, were destroyed by armed men in Isoko South local government. Hundreds of persons who thronged the polling units across the […]
Readers election reports as sent in by Vanguard readers across the country. Note: Please include your names and location when sending your messages. Election in Itu ward 5 in Akwa Ibom state was free and fair There was no election nor materials in Southern Ijaw LGA of Bayelsa Materials were hijacked by PDP to Olugbobiri town […]
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