The incumbent and candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Hope Uzodimma, has been declared the winner of the Imo State governorship election by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). The election took place throughout the state on Saturday, 11 November, 2023. INEC Returning Officer for Imo State Governorship Election, Prof Abayomi Fashina, announced Uzodimma as the winner after the collation of the full results on Sunday, 12 November, 2023. According to Professor Fasina, the candidate of the APC scored 540,308 votes. The governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Senator Samuel Anyanwu, who came second, polled a total…
Author: Khadijah Olowode
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Saturday, 11 November, 2023, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, began his deliberation with the Captains of Saudi Arabian Industry at the Nigeria-Saudi Investment Roundtable by making clear that with his team in place, every negative perception or notion about what Nigeria has represented in the past with respect to the ease of doing business, monetary policy, and trade cooperation is no longer applicable now and in the future of Africa’s largest economy, which he firmly declared is “open for business.” “I believe in this team that I have brought from Nigeria. When I took office, I…
Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have arrested 14 suspected vote buyers in Otueke, Adawari playgrounds in Bayelsa State and at various polling units in Imo and Kogi States. They were arrested on Saturday, 11 November , 2023 in intelligence-driven operations that commenced several days before the ongoing governorship elections in the three states. Also, a total sum of N11.040 million comprising N9.310 million intercepted from suspected vote buyers and sellers in Bayelsa and N1.730 million intercepted from electoral fraud suspects across Imo State, were recovered from them. Also, two vehicles were intercepted from the suspects. They…
Early results from Saturday, 11 November, 2023 governorship elections in Bayelsa State have revealed that incumbent Governor Douye Diri of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is leading in several local government areas in the state. The results released so far in most of the polling units in Ogbia, Nembe, Brass, Sagbama, Ekeremor, Kolokuma-Opokuma, Yenagoa and parts of Southern Ijaw showed that the incumbent Governor has maintained an early lead in the Saturday polls. Former President Goodluck Jonathan delivered his polling unit 039 Otuabula in Otuoke community to the PDP, which is leading in 19 units with a total vote 1,379…
The Vice President, Sen. Kashim Shettima has commended Access Bank for offering N30 billion discounted loans to 700,000 Micro Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs), in support of the Tinubu administration’s agenda for job creation and the growth of the MSME space. Sen. Shettima who disclosed this Friday at a meeting with MSME stakeholders comprising key actors from the public and private sectors, at the Presidential Villa, added that the Access Bank loan scheme will commence as soon as possible. “Every challenge, every problem is pregnant with opportunities for value addition and for repositioning of the society. I just met with…
People suspected to be Social Democratic Party (SDP) thugs have gunned down a 35-year-old supporter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Umar Hassan, at his Agala Ogane Polling Unit, Anyigba. Fear gripped voters at the Polling Unit as SDP thugs were on rampage, threatening to kill anyone who vote against the “Igala Agenda”. An eye witness who identified himself simply as Adamu, told newsmen how the SDP thugs invaded the polling unit with sophisticated weapons, threatening to kill anyone who “doesn’t vote for the SDP”. “It was like what we watch in horror movies as they invaded our Polling Unit…
The United Nations (UN) Women and European Union have described sexual and gender based violence (SGBV) as a global pandemic that requires fundamental and coordinated action that would guarantee the safety and security of vulnerable women and children across the world. Delivering her goodwill message at the Strategy and Knowledge Sharing Workshop on Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) for First-Time First Ladies in Nigeria organized by UN Women, the EU Ambassador to Nigeria and ECOWAS, Samuela Isopi said: “As we all know, sexual and gender based violence (SGBV) is a global pandemic that requires fundamental and coordinated action that would…
Palestinian Ambassador to Nigeria, Abdallah Abu Shawesh, has asked Israel to stop promoting the narrative that it was in Gaza to free Palestine and the rest of the world from Hamas terrorism, insisting that at no time had Palestine asked to be freed from Hamas. He equally said that at no time had Hamas had expedition in any country outside the Middle East as it’s activities has been targeted at Israel and aimed at liberating territories occupied by Israel. The envoy, who spoke at a press conference in Abuja on Wednesday said the Palestinians have never been under the captivity…
Kwara State Governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has appointed Dr. Adetola Ariyike Salau as Special Adviser on Education, with a focus on policy development in the critical sector. Dr. Salau, an indigene of Offa, is a renowned education policy expert with specialization in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) — an area in which she has published several books and articles, including STEM is Key — a Resource book for understanding and deploying STEM education; STEM Activities in Algebra Geometry and Personal Finance; and STEM Activities for Primary and Junior Secondary Schools. She was until May 29, 2023 a Senior Special Assistant…
In its bid to build the capacity of youth towards making them employers of labour, the NNPC Foundation, in partnership with Kudimata Nigeria Limited, a financial education outfit, have trained the Batch C members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) in basic financial literacy skills. The training, which aligned with the objectives of Skills Acquisition and Entrepreneurship Development (SAED) scheme of NYSC had its maiden edition featuring Batch B stream in the past months. So far over 118,000 youth corps members have been trained in financial literacy, while about 70,000 are being trained across the 37 NYSC orientation camps…