Maiduguri – Gov. Kashim Shettima of Borno has called on residents of Maiduguri not to be deterred by the early morning explosion, but should come out and vote in the election. Shetima told newsmen shortly after he cast his vote at Lamusula Ward of Maiduguri, that the people needed to defy the insurgents’ threat and […]

The Independent National Electoral Commission INEC has issued a preliminary report on the ongoing Presidential and National Assembly elections, saying in some places polls did not begin as scheduled owing to security challenges or issues with some members the National Union of Road Transport Workers NURTW.

The immediate past President of Nigeria, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, has cast his vote.

ENUGU-There is calm in most parts of Enugu state as voting in Presidential and national assembly elections go on with few hitches in parts of the state.

UNPRECEDENTED crowd overwhelmed the ad-hoc staff recruited by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, for the presidential and national assembly elections in many centres in Abuja.

Sen. Shehu Sani, representing Kaduna Central in the Senate, has expressed the hope that the ongoing presidential and national assembly elections would produce better and acceptable outcomes.

Suspected ballot thieves snatched a ballot box from a polling unit at Ute-Okpu community in Ika North East Local Government, Delta State, Saturday morning, and took it to unknown hideout, despite President Muhammadu Buhari’s warning that such persons stand the risk of losing their lives.

Shortly after he cast his vote, the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, President Muhammadu Buhari, told journalists that he would congratulate himself after the elections, stressing that he would win.

The governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr Jimi Agbaje, on Saturday said he was concerned about the malfunctioning of the card readers during voting at his polling unit in Apapa.

The Presidential Candidate of the Young Peoples Party (YPP), Mr Kingsley Moghalu has decried the non performance of card readers in his ward at Nnewi North ward 2 in Anambra.