Owo
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Voting exercise has been completed in about half of polling units in Owo, Ondo State. It was gathered that officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), party agents and others were waiting for the official closing time before sorting and counting election results. Meanwhile, News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reported a high turnout of…
21 May
A first-class monarch in the Ose Local Council of Ondo State, the Olute of Ute, Oba Michael Adetunji, was on Tuesday dethroned by an Ondo State High Court, sitting in Owo, headquarters of the Owo Local Council area of the state. The judgement followed a 29-year-old prolonged chieftaincy tussle between the Olule Omoloja ruling house…
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The Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria (FMBN) has publicly disclaimed any association with a N40 million mortgage pre-financing scheme promoted by Housing Exchange Africa (HXAfrica). In an official statement released on Saturday, FMBN clarified that it has not entered into any formal partnership or endorsed any arrangement with HXAfrica for the purported mortgage initiative. Virginia…
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The governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Agboola Ajayi, has been declared the winner of his polling unit
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Vice President Kashim Shettima on Saturday declared that the country's economy is on the path of growth due to the government's policies, regardless of the challenges confronting the President Bola Tinubu-led administration. This is as he charged all Presidential aides to work towards assisting the administration to deliver on its mandate, adding, "the country is…
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The Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD) has said there was widespread vote-buying by agents of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the Ondo State governorship election. In its preliminary report on the election, CDD said its observers saw policemen arguing over money shared by a party stalwart in…
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Senator Ali Ndume, representing Borno South, has advised Daniel Bwala to seek forgiveness from Vice President Kashim Shettima following his appointment as Special Adviser on Media and Public Communications to President Bola Tinubu. Bwala, a former spokesperson for the Atiku Abubakar Campaign, had resigned from the All Progressives Congress (APC) ahead of the 2023 elections,…
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The Ogun State chapter of the Labour Party (LP) has rejected the conduct of Saturday's Local Government election and called for its total cancellation on the grounds that its conduct fell below any acceptable standard. [Ad] At an emergency press conference on Saturday in Abeokuta, the state capital, the State Chairman of the party, Engr.…
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Former Military Head of State, General Abdulsalami Abubakar, has called for a peaceful and enabling environment to pave the way for the desired development in the country. Abubakar stated that governance is difficult in an atmosphere that lacks peace. Speaking at the 4th convocation ceremony of PAMO University of Medical Sciences (PUMS) held at the…
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A senior officer of the Nigerian Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has reportedly been kidnapped. The Guardian gathered that the official was abducted a short distance from the agency's head office located off the Isah-Ogwashi-Uku Road in Aniocha South Local Government Area of Delta State. The Guardian also learned that the incident occurred around 8:00…
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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has been urged to improve on the treatment of persons with disabilities (PWDs) during elections. A group, TAF Africa made the demand on Saturday in its preliminary report on the experience of PWDs during the Ondo State governorship election. TAF Africa in the report signed by representative, Adeolu Kilanko,…
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A Presiding Officer, Miss Angela Oshogwe, at the ongoing governorship election in Ondo State has said that the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) machine could not capture faces of some elderly voters. Oshogwe, manning Polling Unit 19, Ward 11 Olamojuba, Ondo in Ondo West Local Government Area (LGA) of the state, said that she had…