Sunday, 24 February 2019

Elections commences in 4 polling units in Plateau State following the postponement of Saturday’s presidential and National Assembly elections


Elections have commenced in four polling units in Plateau following the postponement of Saturday’s presidential and National Assembly elections in the state.

Mr. Osaretin Imahireogbo, Head, Voter Education and Publicity of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in the state told Newsmen on Sunday in Jos.

Nigerian Army reacts to Governor Wike’s assassination claim - Says it's cheap blackmail


The Nigerian Army has responded to the claim by the Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike, that soldiers from the 6 Division attempted to assassinate him on Thursday, February 21, 2019.

In a statement, the Deputy Director, Army Public Relations, Col. Aminu Iliyasu described the allegation by Governor Wike as “lies and cheap blackmail against the 6

PDP leads on Airport Road, Abuja


The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Saturday led in the Presidential and National Assembly elections in many polling units on Airport Road, Abuja.

Reports have it that sorting and counting of votes at some of the polling units lasted until 4.30a.m. on Sunday.

At Pyakasa Unit, Mr Sadiqu Abdulrazak, the Presiding Officer, said that Mr Atiku Abubakar of PDP scored 1,205 votes while the President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC) got 173

Buhari wins in Kwara, Saraki loses


President Muhammadu Buhari won 462 votes at the Idigba Ilorin polling unit 004 of the party’s governorship candidate, Abdulrahman Abdulrazak.

Buhari’s votes more than double the figure scored by Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party. He got 167 votes.

Updated: Results from polling units

As voting yesterday, the Independent and National Electoral Commission, INEC, swooped into action by collating and announcing polling units results from different parts of the country.

These results according to PREMIUM TIMES are live updates of the official results as announced by INEC officials at the various polling units.

Atiku wins all voting points at Unit 007 Pyakasa in FCT


The presidential candidate for Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has won in the eight voting points at Unit 007 Pyakas, Lugbe, FCT
Mr Sadiqu Abdulrazak, the Presiding Officer for the unit, said Abubakar scored 1,205 votes while President Muhammadu Buhari, candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) got 173 votes.

Breaking News: Thugs storm INEC office, burn ballot boxes


Alleged political thugs, Sunday stormed the office of the Independent National Electoral office in Oriade local government area, Osun state, and set all the ballot boxes on fire.

Reports have it that they opened fire to

#NigeriaDecides: SEE RESULTS: Buhari wins Atiku in Bola Ahmed Tinubu's polling unit


President Muhammadu Buhari emerged victorious at the polling unit of National Leader of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu in the ongoing elections.
Tinubu, a former governor of Lagos State casted his vote at Unit 047, Alausa, Ikeja

#NigeriaDecides: Army arrests 15 ‘political thugs’ in Ikebiri 1, Southern Ijaw LGA, Bayelsa State


Fifteen suspected political thugs have been arrested by the Nigerian army in the Ikebiri 1, Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State.

The army said the hoodlums planned to disrupt the presidential and national assembly elections in the region. Jonah Danjuma, a spokesperson of the Nigeria Army, noted that the arrest of the thugs by

INEC to fix new dates for elections in some part of Rivers


Following the pockets of violence recorded in different parts of the Rivers State, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has decided to postpone the elections in this warring areas and a new date is to be announced for the

Saturday, 23 February 2019

Results: Atiku defeats Buhari with 17 votes inside Aso Rock, APC wins at Dambazau’s polling unit in Kano


The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, defeated President Muhammadu Buhari at the polling center of the Presidential Villa, Abuja. There are two polling units in the presidential villa including PU 021 and PU 022.

The PDP scored a total of 1,030 in the two units at the center while the APC got a total

Elections : PDP agent rejects Abaji results over mixed up result sheets


The PDP agent on Saturday in Abaji, FCT, rejected Presidential and National Assembly results over allegations that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) mixed up the result sheets.

Mr Abubakar Ibrahim, who spoke, said that INEC officials at Abaji Local Government mixed up the presidential and National Assembly sheets.

Breaking: INEC postpones elections in Anambra, Rivers, Lagos, others


The Independent National Electoral Commission INEC has announced the postponement of the elections in some parts of Lagos, Rivers and Anambra States following disruption of the exercise due to violence.

Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, Chairman of the Independent National Electoral

#NigeriaDecides: President Buhari wins his polling unit in Daura with 523 votes while PDP gets 3 Votes

President Buhari has won his own polling unit in Daura, Katsina State.
President Buhari, who is the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, polled 523 votes to beat the Peoples Democratic Party, which scored 3 votes. 

#Nigeriadecides: President Buhari wins in Atiku’s polling unit


President Buhari has won the presidential election in Ajiya polling unit 12, in Yola, the Adamawa State capital where his main contender and PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar voted earlier today.
According to the results collated by the

#NigeriaDecides2019: NYSC Member Killed by APC Military Thugs In Bonny, Rivers State



According to reports, Nysc Members in Bonny feared dead. Sporadic shootings, stray bullet pieced through a Bosom feeding mother, others receiving treatments from various degrees of injuries.

Another voter alleged that ballot papers have already been thumb printed at the polling unit:

Elections 2019: Card reader malfunction immediately after VP Osinbajo casts vote


Card readers deployed to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo's polling unit malfunctioned just minutes after the VP voted

The development prevented other voters including ANN presidential candidate Fela Durotoye from voting

After frantic phone calls, just one card reader was finally able to work. There was serious drama at Vice President Yemi Osinbajo's polling unit on Saturday,

Voters grumble as Card reader stops working at a polling unit in Eleme, River State


The card reader used in unit 003 of Ward 10 in Eleme Local Government area of Rivers State has stopped functioning.

Voters are complaining about the issue and

Business Mogul Femi Otedola and his daughter DJ Cuppy arrive at their polling unit to cast their votes


DJ Cuppy shared this photo of herself and her billionaire father, Femi Otedola at their polling unit where they will be casting their votes today.

Breaking: Anxiety in Asaba, environs over late arrival of materials


ASABA-THE ongoing presidential and National Assembly elections, in parts of Asaba and its environs is being marred by late arrival of materials.

Vanguardngr.com correspondent who is monitoring the exercise in area, reports that the materials were still being sorted out at Uzoigwe Primary school and Ahaba primary school.

Armed thugs allegedly hijack election materials in Nembe Basambiri and Okoroba areas of Bayelsa state.

THE Candidate of the PDP in the Bayelsa East Senatorial district of the State, Chief Ipigansi Izagara has raised alarm over alleged hijack of election materials in Nembe Basambiri and Okoroba areas of the state.

According to him, the shooting and hijack of

BIZARRE: See What female pant thieves go for


Everyday in Nigeria, one is inundated with one horrifying news or the other.More bewildering, is the recent trend in stealing of female pants and menstruation pads for money rituals, by internet fraudsters, popularly called Yahoo Yahoo Boys.

TheCyber crime began at the initial stage

LEAKED VIDEO! Political party faithfuls gather in an open space to thumbprint their candidate even before the Election

A community in a northern state has already voted in favour of the their  Party's Presidential Candidate before the election of 23rd Feb.

Some group of people who seem to look like political party faithfuls have gathered with election materials a day before the election in an open space to vote in favour of their candidate.

They seem to already have the electoral materials and are seriously thumb printing.

The Candidate for who they are thumbprinting for is still not known. 

Friday, 22 February 2019

2019 Polls: man with 2000 PVCs in Edo has been nabbed by Security operatives


Barely few hours to the rescheduled general elections, security agencies in Edo State, have apprehended one Mr. Edwin Edosomwan in Iyekogba axis of Oredo Local Government Area for being in possession of 2000 Permanent Voters’ Cards (PVCs).

The PVCs, it was learnt, was purchased from residents in Iyekogba, Oredo Ward 2, as the man, nabbed on Thursday evening, allegedly claimed he was a mobiliser for one of the candidates of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) contesting in Saturday’s elections.

Photos: Baba Suwe admitted in LUTH


Ailing Nollywood actor, Babatunde Omidina popularly known as Baba Suwe, has been admitted at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH). This comes few days after he came to publicly seek for financial help.

PHOTOS! North West, (Kim Kardashian's daughter) covers WWD magazine at age 5



Kanye West and Kim Kardashian's first child, North West has scored her first solo magazine cover at age 5. The adorable girl is seen smiling and posing like an expert in all the photos taken for the magazine.
Her proud mother took to Instagram to boast about it.

Reno Omokri says Giving money to a girlfriend makes her more appropriately a prostitute. SEE HIS REASONS

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Bank MD jailed 32 years over $166m fraud

Managing Director of Integrated Microfinance Bank Limited, Simon Akinteye, has been sentenced to 32 years imprisonment over $166 million fraud, by a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos.

Trial judge, Justice Cecilia Olatoregun, sentenced the banker after his lawyer, A. O. Sherrif, had pleaded with the judge to temper justice with mercy.

#NigeriaDecides: President Buhari and his wife have arrived Katsina State ahead of tomorrow's elections (Photos)


President Buhari and his wife departed Abuja this afternoon and have both arrived in Katsina State where they'll be casting their votes in the presidential and national assembly elections tommorrow.

Nigerians Savage Desmond Elliot for commissioning a 'biofil' public toilet in his constituency


Nollywood actor cum politician, Desmond Elliot representing Surulere constituency at the Lagos State house of assembly is currently under fire online for commissioning a 'biofil' public toilet in his constituency.

According to Desmond Elliot, 'this isnt just a building, its not just a toilet, but one that converts waste to manure so nothing is wasted as we keep the environment clean'.
Nigerians are however not buying his explanation...