Day: March 19, 2023

26-Year-Old Rukayat Shittu Wins Kwara Assembly Seat

Ganiyu Amodu

26-year-old Rukayat Shittu has won a seat in the Kwara State House of Assembly.     Rukayat – a former Senate President of Congress of NOUN Students (CONS) – will represent the Owode/Onire constituency, Asa local government of Kwara State. In the result announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Returning Officer, Professor Hakeem Ijaya, the lady who contested on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) scored 7,521 votes to beat her Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) rival who polled 6,957 votes in Saturday’s exercise. Meanwhile, INEC has…

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Abiodun Re-elected For A Second Term In Ogun State

ADEOLA YUSUF

Prince Dapo Abiodun,Governor of Ogun State has been announced as winner of the Gubernatorial Election in Ogun State. READ ALSO: Sanwo Olu Wins Lagos Guber Election, Defeats Rhodes-Vivour With 442,690 Vote Aishatu Binani Is Nigeria’s 1st Female Governor-elect, Wins Adamawa Guber Polls NDLEA Intercepts Cannabis Concealed In Dried Onions At Lagos Airport Three Voters Shot As Thugs Destroy Electoral Materials In Ebonyi Deputy Governorship Candidate, Ayade’s Aide’s Wife, Immigration Officer Abducted, N40m Ransom Demanded Abiodun of the APC polled 276,298 to beat the closest rival Hon Adebutu popularly known as…

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Sanwo Olu Wins Lagos Guber Election, Defeats Rhodes-Vivour With 442,690 Vote

Abibat Babalola

Babajide Sanwo-Olu, the governor of Lagos, is leading in the governorship election of the state. Sanwo-Olu is contesting against Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour of the Labour Party (LP) and Abdul-Azeez Adediran of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the governorship position. The incumbent governor has won all the 18 LGAs announced so far by officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). READ ALSO: Aishatu Binani Is Nigeria’s 1st Female Governor-elect, Wins Adamawa Guber Polls NDLEA Intercepts Cannabis Concealed In Dried Onions At Lagos Airport Lady Falls From Four Storey Building, Dies While Fighting…

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NDLEA Intercepts Cannabis Concealed In Dried Onions At Lagos Airport

ADEOLA YUSUF

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has intercepted 2.7kg of cannabis concealed in dried onions which was to be exported to Dubai through a postal firm. It also said no fewer than 1, 205, 260 pills of opioids were seized in two interdiction operations in Kogi and Gombe states by operatives of the agency. The spokesperson for the anti-narcotic agency, Femi Babafemi, in a statement on Sunday also revealed that officers at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja Lagos, disrupted the activities of a drug syndicate that operated between Nigeria,…

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Lady Falls From Four Storey Building, Dies While Fighting with Boyfriend

Abibat Babalola

A 29-year-old lady, Brenda Kawira, died after allegedly falling from the balcony of the fourth-floor apartment she shared with her boyfriend in Kenya. This tragic incident occurred on February 21, 2023, in Kenya’s Kasarani estate, where a 29-year-old woman, Brenda Kawira, reportedly fell from the balcony of her fourth-floor apartment that she shared with her boyfriend. The news source Tuko reported that the woman had a fight with her boyfriend before the fall, and he was the sole witness to the incident. READ ALSO: BREAKING: INEC Declares Seyi Makinde Winner…

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BREAKING: INEC Declares Seyi Makinde Winner of Oyo Governorship Election

Gbenga Adeoti

▪️ Makinde Polls Twice the figure of his runner-up, becomes second in Oyo history to win a reelection   Oyo state governor, Seyi Makinde of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has been declared the winner of the Saturday, March 18, 2023, governorship election in the state. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), which declared Makinde the winner, said that the PDP candidate polled twice the number of votes polled by his first runner up, Teslim Folarin. He will be the second politician in the history of Oyo state to win…

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Rivers APC Campaign Director kidnapped, Assassinated

Efe Wellington

The corpse of Chisom Lennard, a PhD student at the Rivers State University, was riddled with bullets and left in the pool of his own blood along the Ibueahi-Ubeta road in Ahoada-West LGA. The sad appellation of “Rivers of blood” which Rivers State acquired after the 2019 general election is ringing true again in the 2023 elections. This is because the blood has not stopped flowing as gunmen have killed the abducted All Progressives Congress (APC) Campaign Coordinator in Ahoada-West Local Government Area of the State, Chisom Lennard. The gunmen,…

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Edwards Defeats Kamaru Again To Retain UFC Welterweight Title

Ganiyu Amodu

You’ve got a great champion’ – Usman hails Edwards         “Thanks to Kamaru for being a great competitior. – Edwards Leon Edwards retained his welterweight UFC title after defeating Kamaru Usman by majority decision at UFC 286 in London. Edwards, who is on a 12-fight unbeaten streak in the UFC retained his title in front of his own fans after a brilliant striking display as he prevented the majority of Usman’s takedown attempts. The 31-year-old Briton edged out former champion Kamaru Usman in their trilogy encounter with…

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