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Manchester City are on the verge of an historic Premier League title win after Erling Haaland’s brace secured a 2-0 win against Tottenham Hotspur on Tuesday night. The win saw City move two points ahead of Arsenal at the top of the table with one game left to play. Arsenal needed their city rivals to avoid defeat against Spurs to …

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has said it is certain of winning the November 11 governorship election in Imo, Bayelsa and Kogi States, going by the level of its acceptability by the people. The acting National Chairman, PDP, Umar Damagum, said this in Abuja at the inauguration of the party’s National Campaign Council for the election in the three states. …

The All Progressives Congress (APC) National Legal Adviser, Ahmed El-Marzuq, has resigned his membership of the party’s National Working Committee (NWC). In a statement issued on Thursday by his Special Adviser, AbdulHalim Adamu, the APC chieftain said his resignation from the party followed the emergence of ex- Kano State governor Abdullahi Ganduje; and former Senate spokesman, Ajibola Basiru; as party’s …

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has released the first batch of results after commencing the collation of results of Saturday’s governorship election from some local government areas of Kogi State. The results released so far by INEC are: Ogori-Magongo LGA (Osebande ward) Accredited voters: 665 APC: 362 SDP: 195 PDP: 86 ADC: 11 LP: 01 NRM: 002 Idah LGA …

The Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal on Saturday reserved judgment in the appeal filed by the governorship candidate of the All Progressive Congress (APC) in Plateau State, Nentawe Yilwatda, challenging the victory of Governor Caleb Mutfwang of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). In the March 18 gubernatorial election in the state, Mutfwang had scored 525,299 votes to be …

  The Minister of Aviation, Festus Keyamo says political interference in the operations of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), would be dangerous as safety is key in aviation management. According to him, aviation safety is completely in the hands of the aviation regulatory body. The Minister who spoke at the inspection of facilities at the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos …

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), on Sunday, implored Professor Mahmood Yakubu, the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) “to promptly establish a joint, credible, transparent, effective, and broad-based investigation into allegations of electoral bribery and violence in the off-cycle governorship elections in Kogi, Imo and Bayelsa states.” In the letter dated 11 November 2023 and signed by …

Dino Melaye The candidate of the People Democratic Party (PDP), Dino Melaye, lost his Ijumu local government to Ahmed Ododo of the All Progressive Congress (APC). According to the result declared by the LG Returning officer, Dr Samuel Obasan, APC won the local government area with 10,524 votes followed by PDP with 6,909 votes while ADC came third with 1,898 …

The presidency said on Saturday the country’s permanent representatives to the United Nations in New York and Geneva were not among the ambassadors recalled by President Bola Tinubu. The Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the President, Ajuri Ngelale, disclosed this in a statement in Abuja. He said the exemption of the representatives was due to the forthcoming UN …

Ghanaian striker Raphael Dwamena has died after collapsing on the pitch during a league match in Albania on Saturday. 28-year-old Dwamena was playing for Egnatia against Partizani. “Despite the immediate intervention of specialist doctors he unfortunately passed away,” said the Albanian Football Federation (AFL). Dwamena was the leading scorer in the Albanian league this season with nine goals. The Ghanaian …