Lecturers in the Rivers State University of Science and Technology on Monday called off its four-day old industrial action. The lecturers had on Wednesday embarked on an indefinite strike due to the state government’s non-implementation of the agreement between the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities. ASUU Chairman, RSUST branch, Dr. […]
Post-election violence swept through some Northern states on Sunday night and Monday as results of the presidential poll released by the Independent National Electoral Commission clearly showed Dr. Goodluck Jonathan as the winner. States where violence flared were Kano, Kaduna, Adamawa, Katsina, Plateau, Yobe, Bauchi, Borno, Katsina and Sokoto. In states like Kano, Bauchi […]
WARRI – A Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, stalwart in Delta State, Dr John Akwara, escaped death by the whiskers, at Sapele in Delta State, when some suspected assassins, wearing camouflage army, stormed his hospital at Macpherson Road at about 8.00 p.m to kill him. The suspected assassins, numbering five, besieged the hospital shortly after Dr. […]
Latest Presidential Results 17 Apr 2011 ABIA Goodluck 1,175,954 Buhari 3,608 Ribadu 4,156 EDO Goodluck 542,173 Buhari 17,795 ENUGU Goodluck 802,144 Buhari 3,753 Ribadu 1755 JIGAWA Goodluck 419,252 Buhari 663,994 KANO Goodluck 440, 666 Buhari 1,624, 354 Ribadu 42, 353 KOGI Goodluck 399,816 Buhari 132, 201 Ribadu 6516 KWARA Goodluck 268,243 Buhari 83,603 Ribadu 52, […]
Below is a table of the latest available results from states around Nigeria from Saturday’s presidential elections. The figures show the number of seats won by the main candidates in each state as announced by the local offices of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). There are 36 states plus Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory […]
Senator Ifeanyi Araraume The governorship candidate of Action Congress of Nigeria, Senator Ifeanyi Araraume , Saturday said the inclusion of Imo and Abia states among Niger Delta states were his handiwork as the chairman of the South East and South South caucus of the National Assembly when he was in the Senate. He also reassured […]
ELEVEN people were arrested yesterday in Ekiti State, for various electoral offences. Three of them were in possession of locally made pistol, even as early reports indicated that President Goodluck Jonathan of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was in a clear lead. Also, people suspected to be political thugs snatched and destroyed election materials in […]
The presidential candidate of All Nigeria Peoples Party(ANPP) Malam Ibrahim Shekarau has declared to accept the likely outcome of the Presidential election in as far as it certifies that the whole process was free and fair. “I will accept the result of the election as long as the process is free and fair, and I […]
The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed an appeal filed by Senator Joy Emordi challenging the decision of the Enugu Division of the Court of Appeal which voided her election as a senator and declared Alphonsus Igbeke as the senator for Anambra North Senatorial District. In a judgment delivered by Justice Afolabi Fabiyi, the apex […]
Governor Martin Elechi of Ebonyi State By Christopher Isiguzo in Enugu Ahead of the April 26 gubernatorial and House of Assembly elections in Ebonyi State, the state governor, Martin Elechi Friday raised the alarm over an alleged plan to assassinate him to clear coast for the opposition to win election in the state. Elechi alleged […]
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