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News Room Akwa Ibom on the Nigerian map The Governorship, National Assembly and State Houses of Assembly Elections Petition Tribunal in Uyo, Akwa Ibom says it has received no fewer than 34 petitions as at April 1. The Tribunal Secretary in the state, Sidiq Abubakar, made this known in a document made available to journalists on Wednesday. Mr Abubakar said that one of the petitions was filed by

News Room The long awaited Rivers state Governorship election Results as announced by INEC (Total Votes of 10 LGAs) 1. Port Harcourt LGA AAC/APC 11,866 PDP 40,197 2. Ikwere LGA AAC/APC 5,660 PDP 14,938 Ikwere is Amaechi's LG 3. Andoni LGA AAC/APC 5,335 PDP. 92,056 4. Oyigbo LGA AAC/APC 32, 026 PDP 8,652 5. Opopo Nkoro LG AAC/APC : 3,888 PDP : 6,314 6. Bonny LGA AAC/APC - 3,046 PDP - 10,551 7. Eleme LGA AAC: 2,748 PDP: 9,560 8. Okrika LGA AAC/APC - 3,803 PDP -25,572 9. Akuku/Toru PDP: 25,765 AAC: 36,661 10. OMUMAH LGA AAC/APC -1,853 PDP - 15,792 AAC/APC 103,840 PDP 249,397 Diff. 145,557

New s Room Callum Hudson-Odoi scored his third Europa League goal of the season as Chelsea beat Dynamo Kyiv in their last -16 first- leg match to move closer to the quarter -finals. The lively Pedro opened the scoring from close range as he ran on to Olivier Giroud's backheel. William struck the second goal Chelsea's dorminant deserved as he curled home  from 25 yards.

News Room Pieter Doorewaard, left, and Phillip Schutte, were sentenced by a judge in the High Court in Mahikeng, South Africa, on Wednesday. Credit Credit Gianluigi Guercia/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images By   Norimitsu Onishi JOHANNESBURG — Two white South African farmers were sentenced to a combined 41 years in prison on Wednesday for killing a black teenager whom they had accused of stealing sunflowers, bringing to a close a case that had inflamed tensions in a rural town and exposed the nation’s enduring racial divisions.

News Room Abuja Buhari The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has presented The Certificate of Return to President Muhammadu Buhari following his re-election. He was declared the winner of the 2019 Presidential Election in the early hours of Wednesday after he polled a total of 15,191,847 votes to defeat his closest rival and candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Atiku Abubaka who score 11,262,978 votes. READ ALSO KEBBI STATE 2019 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION RESULT #NigeriaHasDecided

News Room APC: 581,552 PDP: 154,282 ALSO READ  Rivers State Presidential Results #Nigeria Decides 2019 Results

News Room AAC-372 ANN-365 APC-150,710 PDP-473,971 YPP-415 #NigeriaDecides2019Result READ ALSO;  Live: Inec Officially Announces Winner of Nigeria's Presidential Election

News Room The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) begins the official announcement of results, which will culminate in the formal declaration of the winner of Nigeria's 2019 presidential election Details shortly...

News Room The collation of presidential election results kicked off on Monday at the National Collation Centre, Abuja, with Ekiti State votes. The State Returning Officer and Vice Chancellor of University of Ibadan, Prof. Idiwu Olayinka, who read out the results from the state said out of the 395, 741 accredited to vote, APC scored 219, 231 against PDP who scored 154,034 votes. The total number of valid votes according to him stand at 381,132, while 12,577 were rejected bases on multiple thumbprinting. Total vote cast, he said, is 393,709. The party agents are expected to inspect the results sheets signed at the state collation office. Ekiti state is the only state without a Resident Electoral Commissioner.

News Room Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki arrives at his polling unit in Ilorin The President of the Senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki has delivered his polling unit for the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. In the presidential election, the candidate of the PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar polled 219 votes while Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress, APC, polled 68 votes. Saraki scored 269 votes in the senatorial election to defeat APC which polled 60 votes. PDP also recorded victory in the House of Reps election with 253 votes to APC’s 53 votes.

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News Room The Lagos State Governor Akinwunmi Ambode, has voted in the Presidential and National Assembly Elections. The Governor who got accredited at about 10:50 AM and he voted a few minutes later in his ward at Ogunmodede Junior/Senior College, Epe, Lagos State. After casting his vote, the Lagos State Governor urge Lagosians and Nigerians to exercise their civic duties in a peaceful manner and cooperate with the officials to ensure a free, fair and credible election. #NigeriaDecides2019

News Room Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has voted in the Presidential and National Assembly elections. The former vice president and his wife were accredited at 10:01 and he voted a few minutes later. After voting, the PDP candidate said he is impressed with the turnout of voters. Details later…

News Room President Muhammadu Buhari and his wife, Aisha has voted this morning in Daura, Katsina State in the Presidential and National Assembly elections. The wife, Aisha, voted before the president at 8.06 a.m., while the president voted at 8.10 a.m. at the Kofar Baru, Sarkin Yara “A” ward in Daura. After voting, the president expressed satisfaction with the state of affairs and said he was optimistic of winning.

News Room The Nigerian Army (NA) has released hotlines to its Situation Room from where electoral activities will be monitored. According to as statement by the army the creation of its situation is in pursuant of its mandate to help create a secure and enabling environment for the conduct of the 2019 General Elections. The army said its situation room would be operating  24/7 and urged the general public to forward genuine information on security related matters as may arise during the elections period to the numbers provided. The army also noted that the public could utilize the NA Information Call Center short code 193 from any Nigerian network or the NA iReport platform on https://army.mil.ng/ .

News Room Two persons have been reportedly killed following the violence that broke out at the Independent National Electoral Commission office in Obot-Akara Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State. The incident which resulted in the burning of many vehicles was said to have occurred after some thugs invaded the office where party agents and supporters were waiting for the delivery of sensitive materials from Uyo, the Akwa Ibom State capital. INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner in the state, Mr Mike Igini, confirmed the incident to journalists in Uyo, describing it as unfortunate. It was gathered that the attackers, suspected to be political thugs, became enraged after they suspected that the sensitive materials being expected from Uyo had been hijacked. Although security was said to have been beefed up in the area as tension enveloped the town, the hoodlums reportedly defied the presence of security operatives and launched an attack on the INEC offi...

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News Room INEC Chairman announcing the postponement of the 2019 elections in Abuja. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has postponed the general elections by a week, less than five hours to the start of the polls. According to the commission, the Presidential and National Assembly elections, initially scheduled for today, February 16, will now hold on February 23, while the governorship and state houses of assembly elections will take place on March 9. INEC Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, announced the decision at a short press briefing at 2:44 am on Saturday morning. He said, “Following a careful review of the implementation of its logistics and operational plan, and the determination to conduct free, fair, and credible elections, the commission came to the conclusion that proceeding with the elections as scheduled is no longer feasible. “Consequently, the commission has decided to reschedule the Presidential and National Assembly elections to Sat...

News Room The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has debunked reports that the body was planning to postpone Saturday’s elections. Presidential and National Assembly elections are scheduled to hold in few hours. National Commissioner for Voter Education and Publicity at INEC, Mr. Festus Okoye, told DAILY POST Friday night that Nigerians should ignore the rumours. His words: “If stories are flying about, allow the stories to fly. What they are reporting is not true.” Asked to respond to information that INEC commissioners were in a meeting, Okoye said: “Yes we are in a meeting but we have not taken such decision. “This is election period and as commissioners, we meet every time”. Meanwhile, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, said his camp had  foiled a plan to rig the polls  in favour of the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, President Muhammadu Buhari. However, the recent development of INEC of...

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News room We have observed that there are  some delay in the distribution of election materials in some states due to late arrival of those materials, this might cause the postponement of tomorrow election Details shortly... 

News Room Ajax’s David Neres (L) and Real Madrid’s Karim Benzema vie for the ball during the UEFA Champions League round of 16 first leg football match between Ajax Amsterdam and Real Madrid at the Johan Cruijff ArenA on February 13, 2019. JOHN THYS / AFP Real Madrid needed a late winner from Marco Asensio and VAR’s debut in the Champions League to beat a spirited Ajax 2-1 in the first leg of the last 16 on Wednesday. Ajax have not beaten Madrid in 24 years and thought they were on their way at the Johan Cruyff Arena when Nicolas Tagliafico headed home after a Thibaut Courtois error. But referee Damir Skomina judged Dusan Tadic to be offside upon review and Madrid showed no pity on their youthful opponents, Karim Benzema and Asensio scoring two precious away goals in the second half. Hakim Ziyech’s equaliser at least keeps Ajax in touch heading into the second leg at the Santiago Bernabeu but Asensio’s 87th-minute winner was a sucker-punch in a match the ...

                                           Nigerians are gearing up for the presidential election scheduled to take place on Saturday, 16 February. The West African country has a population of over 190 million, 84 million of whom are registered to vote in that election. Ahead of the vote, Nigerians have been expressing their expectations of the government that comes into power after the process. Though Nigeria is Africa's biggest economy, with a GDP of well over $370 billion, some Nigerians still want the new administration to focus on improving the sector. “I want the new government to improve more on the Nigerian economy. We want a government that will hear the masses. We are praying that the new government that will come, or any government that will come after this election, we pray that they improve on the economy,” said Lawrence Okonkwo, a resident of the admin...