Новости за 18.03.2023

Some party agents were on Saturday arrested by a detachment of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission at Buhari Primary School Nayinawa area of Gombe State for attempting to buy votes. An voter at polling unit 22, Pantami ward, who pleaded anonymity, said they chose to call the operatives of the anti graft agency after

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission has arrested four vote-buyers in Sokoto and Katsina states during the governorship and state Houses of Assembly elections on Saturday. Its election monitoring operations across the states of the federation on Saturday, March 18, officers of the anti-corruption agency encountered some vote-buyers at Kauran Miyo Primary

Ellis Simms grabbed a last-gasp equaliser as struggling Everton boosted their fight for Premier League survival with a dramatic 2-2 draw against Chelsea on Saturday. Sean Dyche’s side were moments away from a damaging defeat until Simms scored his first goal for the club to stun Stamford Bridge into silence. Everton’s show of defiance came

  Burnley manager Vincent Kompany endured a nightmare return to Manchester City on Saturday as Erling Haaland scored his sixth hat-trick of the season in a 6-0 rout that sent Pep Guardiola’s men into the FA Cup semi-finals. Kompany, who won four Premier League titles in an 11-year career at City as a player, was

  A strong earthquake with its epicenter off Ecuador shook northern Peru and much of Ecuador Saturday, authorities said. The 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck at 12:12 local time (17:12 GMT), with its epicenter 52 miles (85 kilometers) northeast of the Peruvian city of Zarumilla, near the border with Ecuador, the National Seismological Center of Peru

The Independent National Electoral Commission has so far uploaded 66,634 election results from the governorship and state Houses of Assembly elections. The PUNCH reports that opposition parties and some Nigerians knocked INEC over its failure to upload results immediately on its result viewing portal during the presidential election held on February 25 but the commission

Sebastien Haller and Marco Reus both scored twice as Borussia Dortmund thrashed Cologne 6-1 on Saturday, sending the home side top of the Bundesliga ahead of Bayern Munich. Donyell Malen and Raphael Guerreiro also got on the scoresheet as Dortmund moved a point clear of Bayern, who visit Bayer Leverkusen on Sunday. Dortmund stormed into

  The Independent National Electoral Commission has postponed Saturday’s governorship and Houses of Assembly elections in Butura Ward in Bokkos Local Government Area of Plateau to Sunday, due to logistics problem. The state INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner, Dr Oliver Agundu, disclosed this while speaking with newsmen in Jos on Saturday. Agundu said that election materials

The Centre for Democracy and Development has raised doubts over the credibility of Saturday’s governorship and state House of Assembly elections following alleged cases of sale of votes, violence and intimidation of voters. While the group commended improvements in the conduct of the elections, especially in the area of logistical deployment leading to prompter arrival

A political think tank, the Centre for Democracy and Development on Saturday raised concerns over the credibility of the governorship election, citing alleged public sale of votes, violence and intimidation. According to the organisation, although the Independent National Electoral Commission did better in the area of logistics deployment leading to prompt arrival of electoral officials,

Immediate past Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, has said the shortcomings being experienced in the election are a complete failure of governance in the country. This is as he said the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has no power to declare anybody wanted. Amaechi spoke after casting his ballot in Ubima, Ikwerre Local Government Area

No fewer than 65 persons were arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Saturday, March 18, 2023, across the 28 states where governorship and State Houses of Assembly elections were conducted for alleged voter inducement. Twenty of the suspects were arrested by operatives from the Ilorin Zonal Command while 13 suspects were nabbed

Tottenham’s challenge for a top-four finish in the Premier League was hit by a late Southampton fightback in a 3-3 draw on Saturday, as Leeds boosted their survival hopes with a 4-2 win at Wolves. Spurs looked set to leapfrog Manchester United into third as they led bottom-of-the-table Saints 3-1 with just 13 minutes remaining

The opposition Peoples Democratic Party floored the All Progressives Congress in one of the polling units in Sir Kashim Ibrahim Government House, Kaduna in Saturday’s governorship poll. The main opposition party’s candidate, Isa Ashiru Kudan, won polling unit 014 with 77 votes while APC’s Uba Sani scored 40 votes. The Presiding Officer, Mohammed Baso, who

The governorship candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party in Ogun State, Olufemi Ajadi, has vowed that the party will initiate legal actions against the Independent National Electoral Commission for omitting the party’s name on the ballot papers. Ajadi who spoke shortly after he cast his votes at Ofada, in the Obafemi-Owode Local Government Area

Here are results of the English Premier League on Saturday: Aston Villa 3 (Luiz 7, Ramsey 80, Buendia 89) Bournemouth 0 Brentford 1 (Jensen 32) Leicester 1 (Barnes 52) Southampton 3 (Adams 46, Walcott 77, Ward-Prowse 90+3-pen) Tottenham 3 (Porro 45+1, Kane 65, Perisic 74) Wolves 2 (Jonny 65, Cunha 73) Leeds 4 (Harrison 6,

Arise Television crew was attacked while covering the ongoing governorship and House of Assembly elections in the Elegushi Palace area of Lagos State. According to broadcast journalist, Oseni Rufai, via his verified Twitter handle on Saturday, the cameras and drone used for coverage were seized and a correspondent brutalised. “Arise crew attacked in Elegushi. People

The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), on Saturday, delivered the governorship and State House of Assembly elections in his ward for the All Progressives. The results announced by the Collation Officer for the ward, Hamza Yusuf, showed that for the governorship election, the APC scored 261 votes; PDP polled 32 votes and NNPP didn’t

The Independent National Electoral Commission has postponed Saturday’s Governorship and House of Assembly elections in 10 polling units in the Victoria Garden City, Lekki area in the state. INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner for Lagos State, Segun Agbaje, stated this when he addressed reporters at the VGC on Saturday. Agbaje said members of the National Youth

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All-rights Foundation Africa on Saturday observed that the Independent National Electoral Commission deployed inadequate assistive tools at polling units for Persons with Disabilities in the Governorship and State Houses of Assembly elections. The Chief Executive Officer, TAF Africa, Jake Epelle, declared this during the group’s Mid-Day Situation Report on the March 18 elections. TAF Africa,

The Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde of the Peoples Democratic Party, has won at the polling unit of former Governor Rashidi Ladoja. The PUNCH reports that there has been a widespread rumour that Ladoja was not in support of the second term ambition of Makinde, a rumour which was publicly debunked by the ex-governor. The

The Kwara State Governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, has won his Idi-Igba Polling Unit 004 of Adewole Ward in Ilorin West Local Government Area of the state. Official results by the Independent National Electoral Commission showed that APC polled 243 votes in the governorship ballot as against PDP’s 58. The governor had earlier urged more voters to

The Lagos State Peoples Democratic Party governorship candidate, Abdul-Azeez Adediran aka Jandor, has defeated his closest rivals, Babajide Sanwo-Olu of the All Progressives Congress and Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour of the Labour Party, at his polling unit in Osolu Junior High School, Unit 001 ward G in Irewe, Ojo Local Government Area of the state. Adediran polled

The European Union is expected to make a preliminary statement on the observation from the governorship and state House of Assembly elections. The European Union Chief Observer, Barry Andrews, made this known to journalists on Saturday. The EU Observer Missions have been on the ground since January, 2023 and have their team deployed across the