Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi escaped a NATO missile strike in Tripoli, but his youngest son and three grandchildren under the age of 12 were killed, a government spokesman said. The strike, which came hours after Gadhafi called for a cease-fire and negotiations in what rebels called a publicity stunt, marked an escalation of international efforts [...]
The Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) said in Abuja on Thursday that it was on the verge of de-listing some 50,000 companies from its register. Ahaji Garba Abubakar, the Special Adviser to the Registrar General of the CAC told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the companies were yet to meet the provisions of the [...]
Britain’s Prince William and Kate Middleton married at Westminster Abbey on Friday in a royal occasion of dazzling pomp and pageantry that has attracted a huge global audience and injected new life into the monarchy. Before the vows, a veiled Middleton, the first “commoner” to marry a prince in close proximity to the throne in [...]
Confusion, fears and anxiety reigned supreme yesterday in the streets of Owerri, the Imo State capital as supporters of Governor Ikedi Ohakim of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and that of Rochas Okorocha of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) are claiming victory in the governorship poll of Tuesday. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), [...]
PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan will today embark on a seven-day working retreat to the Obudu Resort in Cross River State. A statement released by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr Ima Niboro, in Abuja, on Thursday, said that he would be accompanied by some senior government officials and his aides but [...]
Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State has been re-elected for a second term on the PDP platform. He polled 525,793 votes to defeat his closest challenger, Chief Great Ogboru of the Democratic Peoples Party (DPP), who secured 433,834 votes in Tuesday’s gubernatorial election. Chief Ovie Omo-Agege, the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) candidate polled 15,526 [...]
Goodluck Jonathan said yesterday that the rescheduled elections in Bauchi and Kaduna States will hold on Thursday as planned, but if the elections were not held, the federal government may be forced to impose a state of emergency in the two states. Mr Jonathan said this while talking to journalists after voting in his hometown, [...]
As the 2011 poll enters the concluding stage, the battle for the President of the Senate has started with the incumbent holder, Senator David Mark initiating a lobbying process. The new Senate President and Speaker of the House of Representatives may emerge on June 2. But the Peoples Democratic Party will soon meet after the [...]
The Kaduna State Police Command said yesterday it has uncovered a bomb-making factory at the Rafin Guza area of Kaduna metropolis where already manufactured explosives and other weapons were recovered. These weapons were believed to have been used in the plethora of violence that had attended the recent elections conducted in the state and neighbouring [...]
TOTAL blackout is imminent nation wide as workers of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) handed down a 14-day ultimatum to government to suspend further action on privatisation of PHCN, until all outstanding labour issues are resolved failing which they would withdraw their service and shut down the sector. Under the umbrella of the [...]
Barely a month after his investiture with the Global and African Central Banker of 2011 awards by The Banker Magazine, the influential Time Magazine yesterday followed suit, listing the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) governor, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, among ‘The 2011 TIME 100.’ Time Magazine said on its website yesterday that The Time 100 list, [...]
The African Union removed sanctions on Thursday against Ivory Coast, after President Alassane Ouattara took control following the removal of former leader Laurent Gbagbo. “President Ouattara is assuming power so we have lifted the sanctions,” Joseph Nsengimana, Rwanda’s AU ambassador and chair of the bloc’s Peace and Security Council, told journalists after council members met [...]
THE Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, presidential candidate, Major General Muhammadu Buhari, is to challenge results of the presidential elections in the tribunal on the basis of alleged suppression of his votes and inflation of those of the declared winner, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Buhari Declaring his decision to challenge [...]
Nigeria’s Flying Eagles suffered their first loss of the African Youth Championships on Thursday when they fell 1-0 to Cameroon with the game’s only goal arriving on the stroke of half-time through Franck Ohandza. The Cameroonian striker, with his back to the Nigerian goal, picked up the ball on the edge of the area, then [...]
Nollywood was thrown into a mourning mood in the early hours of Thursday, as it lost one of its respected actor Ashley Nwosu to the cold hands of death. Ashley Nwosu died barely 24 hours after he fell into coma at the Military Hospital, Yaba, where he was been treated for severe liver problems on [...]
Attahiru Jega, chief of Nigeria’s Independent Election Commission, said that polls cannot go ahead as scheduled Tuesday in the states of Kaduna and Bauchi because of security concerns, and that the votes will be delayed there by two days. The announcement came just hours after President Goodluck Jonathan vowed in a televised address to the [...]
Total valid votes cast – 1,639,532 Invalid votes – 76,392 ACN – 10,945 CPC – 1,163,919 PDP – 428,392
Total valid votes cast – 1,854,116 invalid votes – 21,360 ACN – 16,382 ANPP – 1,449 CPC – 13,182 PDP – 1,817,762
942,679 valid votes were cast. 36,643 votes were invalid. ACN – 17,970 ANPP – 46,554 CPC – 624,518 PDP – 238,980 (Note: We only note the results for the 4 major political parties as other parties’ scores are negligible
Total valid votes cast was 1,189,233 with 11,319 votes invalid. ACN – 4,392 ANPP – 1,455 CPC – 3,743 PDP – 1,175,984 Pdp won comfortably in Abia
A total of 2,725,451 votes were cast. 72,223 votes were invalid. Of the total valid votes the results were as follows; CPC – 1,624,543 ANPP – 526,310 PDP – 440,666 ACN – 42,353 The votes for other political parties were also announced but we are ignoring it because of their negligible performance. Thus with the [...]
PDP won Tinubu’s ward in Lagos with 82 voles, trailed by ACN with 80 votes. CPC came third with 27 votes.
Results on form EC 8A for Kofar Baru III polling unit in Sarkin Yara A ward in Daura LG, where Buhari voted: Registerd voters: 764 Accredited and voted- 510 CPC: 494 PDP: 0 ANPP:4 ACN: 2 ADC: 1 NCP: 1 BNPP: 3 Rejected ballots: 3 Spoiled ballots: 2 Unsused ballot paper: 170 Total Ballot papers [...]
Jonathan polled 802,144 votes while Buhari came second with 3,753. The returning officer is Prof. Bartholomew Okolo, VC of UNN.
