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INEC Declares Kaura Namoda Poll Inconclusive

18.08.2025

The Independent Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared Kaura Namoda South State Assembly by-election inconclusive, following cancellation of results n 5 polling units under Sakajiki and Kyambarawa owing to irregularities. Announcing the results on Sunday, the Returning Officer, Professor Lawal Sa’adu of the Federal University Gusau, explained that the results earlier announced showed that the APC...

APC’s Jauro Wins Ganye Election In Adamawa

18.08.2025

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared Misa Musa Jauro of the All Progressives Con-gress (APC) winner of the Ganye Constituency byeelection in Adamawa State. According to the returning officer, Prof. Tukur Ahmed, the APC candidate polled 15,923 votes to defeat his closest rival, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, who scored 15,794 votes,...

APC: Defence Minister Not Defeated In His Polling Unit

18.08.2025

The National Leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has come to the defense of the Minister of Defence, Alhaji Abubakar Badaru, stating that he did not lose his ward in the bye-election held in Jigawa State last week Saturday. There has been reports that the Minister of Defence, who was former Governor of Jigawa...

APGA Sweeps Anambra Election, Says Opposition Humbled

18.08.2025

The All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in Anambra State yesterday sent other political parties to the cleaners by winning the Anambra South Senatorial District by-election and the Onitsha North 1 State Constituency bye election. The election which had before now generated so much tension and anxiety ended up in an anti climax as the party...

Institutional Failures Eroding Ethics Of Law Profession –SANs, Judge

18.08.2025

Legal practitioners and judges of different courts in the country have blamed institutional failures of the Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee (LPDC), the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), the National Judicial Council (NJC), and the Body of Benchers for the erosion of ethics in the law profession. Speaking at the Law Week of the Ondo chapter of...

Abbas Congratulates APC Over Victory In Zaria, Others

18.08.2025

The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas, has congratulated the All Progressives Congress (APC) on its victory at the by-elections in Zaria Kewaye State Constituency, Basawa State Constituency, and Chikun/Kajuru Federal Constituency held on Saturday. In a congratulatory message through his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Musa Abdullahi Krishi, the Speaker specifically...

Imposition, Poor Decision Reason APC Lost Ibadan North –Group

18.08.2025

A group within the All Progressives Congress, (APC) in Oyo State, under the aegis of “Concerned Leaders”, has declared that the failure of the party in the Saturdays Ibadan North Federal Constituency bye-election was a result of imposition of candidate and poor decision by the party. The group made this declaration in a statement signed...

Admission Seeker Loses Suit Against Loyola Jesuit College

18.08.2025

Justice Peter Lifu of a Federal High Court in Abuja has dismissed a suit instituted against the famous Loyola Jesuit College, Abuja by an admission seeking pupil, Master Aondo Terdoo Caleb. Justice Lifu, in a ruling, held that the suit filed for 2024 admission into the College had become academic exercise by effusion of time....

APC Candidate Wins Munya Constituency

18.08.2025

The candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Mathew Dogara Daje has been declared winner of the bye-election in Munya Constituency which held on August 16. Declaring Daje winner, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said he emerged with a significant margin, after securing over 6,000 votes more than his closest rival, Hon. Sabo Sunday...

Crime Prevention Key To Justice Delivery, Says Kogi CJ

18.08.2025

The Chief Judge of Kogi State, Justice Josiah Majebi, has said that the first step to delivering justice in a society is the ability to prevent the commission of any form of crime that would be harmful to the people. Justice Majebi stated this at the commencement of the training of selected staff of the...

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I apologise for saying no heaven without tithe – Adeboye

04.10.2024

The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has apologised for saying that Christians who don’t pay tithe might not make it to heaven. Adeboye who had previously said that paying tithe was one of the prerequisites for going to heaven, apologised for the comment while addressing his congregation Thursday...

Protesters storm Rivers electoral commission, insist election must hold

04.10.2024

Angry protesters on Friday stormed the office of the Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission, singing and chanting ‘Election must hold’. They defied the heavy rainfall spreading canopies, while singing and drumming, with one side of the road blocked. The protest came after the Rivers State governor stormed the RSIEC in the early hours of Friday...

Man who asked Tinubu to resign admitted in psychiatric hospital

04.10.2024

The Adamawa State Police Command has disclosed that the 30-year-old Abdullahi Mohammed who climbed a 33 kv high tension electricity pole in Mayo-Belwa last Friday has been admitted at the Yola Psychiatric hospital for mental examination. The Police Public Relations Officer of the command SP Suleiman Nguroje, told Arewa PUNCH on Friday in an exclusive...

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