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Senator Hope Uzodinma has defeated Governor Rochas Okorocha’s son-in-law, Uche Nwosu to win the All Progressives Congress gubernatorial ticket. Uzodinma recoreded 423,895 votes to pick the party’s ticket in the election conducted on Tuesday. Nwosu came seventh with just 10, 329 votes. The result was signed by the returning officer, Ahmed Ali Gulak. We had earlier reported that Gulak disappeared …

The Osun State Governor-elect, Alhaji Gboyega Oyetola, has received the certificate of return from the Independent National Electoral Commission. He was given the certificate of return at the INEC office in Osogbo, the Osun State capital on Wednesday by the Director of Legal Services, Mr Oluwatoyin Babalola, who represented the Chairman of the commission, Prof Mahmood Yakubu. Oyetola, who was …

Clement Ebri, the Chairman of the National Working Committee of the All Progressives Congress tasked with conducting the Lagos governorship primary, has endorsed the result of the primaries held on Tuesday. Ebri had on Tuesday cancelled the election, saying they had not conducted the election. However, after consultation with the National Chairman of the party, Adams Oshiomhole, Ebri was told …

  Benin City, Nigeria – Contrary to a media report that the corpse of a former Deputy Speaker of Edo State House of Assembly, Dr. Osaretin Osadolor deposited at the Stella Obasanjo Hospital’s morgue was missing, the hospital’s Medical Director has confirmed that it was released to the deceased’s oldest son Barr. Erhunse Osa-Osadolor. The Medical Director, Dr. Isaac Omorogiuwa …

*says new date for Lagos APC primaries to be announced in due course Chairman of the National Working Committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr. Clement Ebri, on Tuesday invalidated the governorship primaries purported to have held across the State, saying that it never authorised such to go ahead when the modalities were not followed as scheduled. Ebri said …

A former member of House of Representatives, Mr Abubakar Momoh on Tuesday won the Peoples Democratic party for North Senatorial primaries to emerge PDP candidate for Edo North Senatorial seat for the 2019 general elections. Momoh, who emerged through consensus is a two time lawmaker under the platform of All Progressives Congress (APC). The Chairman, PDP Electoral Committee, Mr Wilson …

The National Working Committee of the All Progressive Congress sent from Abuja to monitor the party’s governorship primary in Lagos State has nullified the exercise held across the 20 local government areas of the state on Tuesday. The Chairman of the committee, Mr. Clement Ebri, who addressed the press around 4.30pm at Protea Hotel, Alausa, said the election could not …

MADRID — The challenges the United States sees from Russia and China are similar because both have studied the America way of war, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said yesterday. Marine Corps Gen. Joe Dunford is here visiting Spanish officials after attending the NATO Military Committee meeting in Warsaw, Poland, over the weekend. The bottom line for …

Edo State government has shut down an illegal abattoir located at Oluku Market, in Ovia North East Local Government Area of the state. Addressing journalists after shutting down the abattoir, Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on Security and Surveillance, Comrade Emmanuel Orukpe, said the abattoir was shut down in collaboration with the Committee on Abattoir Management and Control, headed …

The Presidency on Tuesday said it has cancelled the weekly meeting of the Federal Executive Council that would have been held on Wednesday. The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, disclosed this in a statement made available to journalists in Abuja. Adesina attributed the cancellation to the ongoing primaries of the All Progressives Congress. …