The Labour Party vice Presidential candidate Alhaji Datti Baba Ahmed lost his polling unit to the PDP in Tudun Wada Zaria. The PDP won the polling unit with 102 votes followed by the All Progressives Congress’s 98 votes while LP came distant third with 54 votes and the NNPP secured 11 votes. As votes continue to trickle in from various states across the North the Labour Party continue to suffer crushing defeat at the hands of the PDP , APC and the NNPP. Although the Labour Party made a significant in road in the Southeast and the south south parts…
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Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Ndudi Elumelu has expressed confidence of his victory and that of the PDP in today’s Presidential and National Assembly elections. The Minority Leader, who is also the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) House of Representatives, candidate for Aniocha/Oshimili Federal Constituency spoke with Journalists after casting his votes at 11:15 am, in his Unit 3 polling unit, located inside the premises of Kanidima Primary school, Onicha-Uku, in Aniocha North Local Government area, Delta State. The Federal Lawmaker was confident that PDP will coast home to victory, saying the Party has done marvelously well…
The massive operation by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to deter vote trading and other financial malfeasance ahead of tomorrow’s presidential and national assembly elections may have begun paying dividends with the interception in Lagos of the sum of N32, 400,000 (Thirty-two Million, Four Hundred Thousand Naira) allegedly suspected to be used for vote buying in Lagos. The recovery was made by operatives of the Lagos Zonal Command of the Commission. The suspect involved has been taken into custody for further questioning. The Chairman of the Commission, Abdulrasheed Bawa has implored all personnel of the Commission deployed for…
A member of the House of Representatives, Dr. Chinyere Igwe, has been arrested with an unspecified amount of foreign currencies. Igwe, who represents Port Harcourt Federal Constituency 2, in the lower chamber of the National Assembly, was arrested on Friday morning along Aba Road in Port Harcourt. Spokesperson of the Rivers State Police Command, Grace Iringe-Koko, who confirmed the arrest to our correspondent said, “A statement on it will be released soon.
Immediate Past Governor of Delta State, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, CON, has appealed to stakeholders to be transparent and avoid any form of violence. That we have experienced too much violence in Nigeria and Delta State in particular. Uduaghan stated this in a Press Release dated Thursday, 23 February, 2023, that was made available to pressmen. Appealing to Nigerians to go and vote in peace that a peaceful election is a win for us all, he said the results of the elections would produce mainly fresh hands to occupy the various offices being contested for. And hopefully, the fresh hands would produce…
By Nneka Glory Nwachukwu Atuma-Iga and Akwukwu-Igbo are two communities sharing the same political Ward in Oshimili North Local Government Area of Delta State that have not known peace for some time now following alleged land grabbing and disagreements. The obnoxious chapter in the homeland of one time Attorney General of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (Late Chief Michael Agbamuche, SAN), was sacrilegious and like the height of infamy. The people of Akwukwu-Igbo, which is the headquarters of Oshimili North Local Government Area of Delta State, Nigeria, also known as the “Land of Desert Warriors”, have accused the Obi of…
By Boluwatife Adedokun Friday Omosola, a student of the Mass Communication Department, Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko, who recently graduated from the 2022 Millennium Campus Network Fellowship (MCN), has been appointed as the President of the Nigerian Union of Campus Journalists (NUCJ) and simultaneously the Editor-in-chief of Echo media — a long serving media outlet in AAUA. Millennium Fellowship is a semester-long leadership development program to widen students’ social impact capability and improve their leadership skills. MCN fellowship was launched in 2013 to convene, challenge and celebrate student leaders for social impact and since its establishment, more than 5,500 young…
ASABA/Nigeria: A Former Aide to the Deputy Speaker, Delta State House of Assembly, Mr. Chuks Ukpese had describe the All Progressive Congress, APC as a party without focus, and cohesion, which is only existing in the imagination of few elements in the state. Ukpese, who was a Private Secretary, and Domestic Assistant to the Deputy Speaker, stated this on Wednesday, February 22, 2023 when he visited his former boss to apologise for the embracement his actions caused him and the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in the state. The former Aide, who was escorted to the reconciliation meeting…
Ahead of Saturday’s Presidential and National Assembly elections, more group in Delta State have endorsed the Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon Ndudi Elumelu for re-election. Groups including highly influential Artisan Association of Nigeria, Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Nigerian Union of Teachers (NUT) National Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE) among others in Delta State unanimously adopted Elumelu for re-election at the National Assembly election scheduled for Saturday, February 25, 2023. The Minority Leader who represents Aniocha/Oshimi Federal Constituency of Delta State was on Tuesday, February 21, 2023 in Asaba, Delta State Capital, endorsed by the…
The Speaker of the Delta State House of Assembly and Governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the 2023 election, Rt Hon Sheriff Oborevwori, has pledged to not only ensure the continuity of the DESOPADEC Skills Academy but also increase the empowerment package for the graduands. Oborevwori gave the assurance at the matriculation ceremony of the 4th batch of the DESOPADEC Skills Academy held on Tuesday at the PTI Conference Centre, Effurun. Commending the commission for its proactive initiatives and commitment to the socioeconomic elevation of the oil producing communities, Oborevwori noted that the Delta State Government has always…