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The ruling Peoples Democratic Party in Delta State has won 22 out of the 25 local government councils where elections took place in the state on Saturday. The Chairman of the Delta State Independent Electoral Commission, Mr. Mike Ogbodu, who supervised the declaration of results in Asaba, the state capital on Sunday evening, said there would be rerun election in …

The Nigerian Medical Association in Kogi State on Sunday directed its members to resume strike on Monday over an alleged failure by the state government to meet their demands. The Chairman of the association, Dr. Godwin Tijani, said in Lokoja that the inability of the state government to pay the doctors’ full salaries was unacceptable. Besides, Tijani said all the …

As teachers in public primary schools in Kaduna State goes on indefinite strike on Monday, Governor Nasir el-Rufai has threatened to dismiss any teacher who is absent from duty. The Chairman of the Kaduna State branch of the Nigeria Union of Teachers, Mr. Audu Amba, confirmed to one of our correspondents on phone on Sunday that teachers in public primary …

Benue State Government has concluded arrangement to give mass burial to the victims of the New Year attack next Thursday. Chief Press Secretary to the governor, Mr. Terver Akase, disclosed this on Sunday through telephone conversation. He explained that there would be a memorial service for them by 10am at the IBB Square, Makurdi. Akase said the 10 persons killed …

In an extraordinary public defence of his own mental stability, Donald Trump issued a volley of tweets that seemed guaranteed to add fuel to a raging political fire. Suggestions in a new tell-all book that he was mentally unfit to be president were out of “the old Ronald Reagan playbook”, Trump wrote on Saturday. “Actually,” the president added, “throughout my …

The alleged removal of the Odionwere of Egbirhe community in Oredo Local Government Area of Edo State, Pa Napoleon Omobude and his council of elders by the Benin Monarch, Omo N’ Oba Ewuare II is generating tension in the village.They were alleged to have been replaced by the former chairman of the defunct Community Development Association (CDA) in the area. …

Political thugs suspected to be members of a political party, have set the Ughelli office of the Delta State Independent Electoral Commission, DSIEC on fire. The youths whom earlier faced a stiff challenge by the police, invaded the office in protest of the noninclusion of result sheets in the voting materials. Gunshots and protests at about 8:40am today, rocked the …

Former Ballon d’Or winner Weah, 51, played under Wenger at Monaco between 1988 and 1992, long before turning to politics. The ex-AC Milan star recently won 61.5 per cent of the nation’s vote in Liberia’s presidential election – with his inauguration to be held on January 22. However, Wenger has joked he will only be able to attend should the …

Liberia’s National Elections Commission, NEC, has presented certificate of return to the President-elect, George Weah; Vice President-elect, Jewel Howard-Taylor, and the newly elected members of the House of Representatives. The Chairman of NEC, Jerome Korkoya, performed the ceremony at the commission’s headquarters in Monrovia on Thursday evening. According to local media, 66 out of the 73 elected lawmakers were certificated, …

Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has said there was no going back on the Gelegele Seaport project in the state, assuring that the rule of law, peace and order will be maintained in the state as government pursues its programs and policies. Obaseki said this when elders and leaders of thought from the five Ijaw clans in the state …