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Doctors who performed the surgical operation on Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, to treat the recurrent pain caused by a fracture in his leg have concluded the procedure and it was successful. Also, the VP is alert and well. Below is the statement released by the Duchess International Hospital, Lagos: “SUCCESSFUL MEDICAL TREATMENT OF THE VICE PRESIDENT “The Vice President …

Ruling All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, has left Osun State where a governorship election is holding. According to report by Punch, the APC National Leader met with House of Assembly Speakers from the party on Saturday in Abuja. During the meeting, Tinubu promised the speakers’ active roles in his campaigns ahead of the 2023 general election. Speakers at …

Results from the portal of the Independent National Electoral Commission have shown that the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Senator Ademola Adeleke, is leading in the ongoing Osun governorship election. The results showed that PDP is leading with over 10,000 votes. The portal also showed that over 87 per cent of the results have been uploaded. Among the …

Coalition of North East Elders for Peace and Development (CNEEPD), yesterday, endorsed the Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, in the 2023 poll. This even as the group rejected the Muslim-Muslim ticket by All Progressives Congress (APC), saying the decision did not promote equity and fairness. Its National Coordinator, Zana Goni, in a statement, noted that contrary to …

The counting of votes has commenced in the ongoing governorship election in Osun State. Official ward results showed that the All Progressives Congress and the Peoples Democratic Party are in a tight race. Oyetola and Adeleke Though 15 political parties participated in the election, the top contenders are the candidate of APC, Governor Gboyega Oyetola and the candidate of the …

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) yesterday declared that Continuous Voters Registration (CVR) would officially end on July 31, 2022. The Commission announced the extension after deliberations on some concerns around the exercise, among other things. INEC’s National Commissioner and Chairman Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye, who disclosed this in a statement in Abuja, also said the Commission …

The National Leader of Labour Party (LP), Prof. Pat Utomi, has stated that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC), with structural deficiency by reason of their transactional politics, cannot produce good leaders. Besides, he said his 2012 Leadership Newspaper Annual Lecture gave birth to the All Progressives Congress (APC) and that people who hijacked power …

This is contained in the preliminary statement of the foundation’s Election Security Support Centre (ESSC) on ‘2022 Osun State governorship election’ signed by Acting Executive Director of the CLEEN Foundation, Ms Ruth Olofin. According to the report, the 60 citizen observers deployed across the 30 Local Government Areas of Osun State were to monitor the degree to which security agencies …

The Lagos State Government has directed all approved, registered and unregistered private nursery, primary and secondary schools to upload their information on its website as part of data gathering of schools that is still in operation in the state. It said the registration is mandatory for all private nursery, primary and secondary schools. This is contained in a statement by Abiola Seriki, …

Ivana Trump, Donald Trump’s first wife, died of “blunt impact injuries” to the torso, the New York City medical examiner’s office has said. It added that the death of the 73-year-old on Thursday was accidental. Reports in US media say she died after falling down stairs in her New York City apartment. Ivana Trump, who was born in what was …