Breaking News In Nigeria Today, March 23, 2023
Five women have been elected into the Kwara State House of Assembly.
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The women were elected during the last Saturday’s House of Assembly election in the state.
They would partake in the 10th legislative session of the Assembly which will be inaugurated in June this year.
The People Democratic Party has okayed Governor Douye Diri of Bayelsa State to run for a second term.
Diri passed the screening of the Party for the November 11, 2023 governorship election in the state.
The screening was conducted on Tuesday at the party’s headquarters in Abuja by the PDP Governorship Screening Committee for Bayelsa State.
The Peoples Democratic Party and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, have headed to the Presidential Election Tribunal to petition the results produced during the February 25 poll.
Their mission was to challenge the declaration of Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress as the winner of the presidential election.
The filing which was confirmed on Tuesday evening is marked CA/PEPC/05/2023 and has Atiku Abubakar and the PDP as petitioners.
President Muhammadu Buhari has written to the Senate requesting the confirmation of new members of the board of the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation.
This development was contained in a letter dated March 15, 2023.
The letter was read at the start of the plenary on Tuesday by the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan.
Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the February 25 election, has told the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) declare him winner of the election.
Obi also sought the court to cancel the election and conduct a fresh one in alternative.
The above formed part of the reliefs being sought in a petition Obi filed with his party at the court’s secretariat located at the Court of Appeal in Abuja.
Fans who are wishing to watch the Super Eagles live against the Djurtus of Guinea-Bissau at the Moshood Abiola Stadium, Abuja on Friday will have to pay between N2,000 and N10,000 respectively.
The prize is for ordinary and VIP seats, respectively.
Interested fans are to purchase the tickets at the secretariat of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) and NFF’s former office at Wuse 7, Abuja.
Serie A Giants Napoli have told Manchester United the very amount to make available for the signing of Victor Osimhen this summer.
The Italian side will not sell the Nigeria International this summer unless the Red Devils are able to cough out €150million (£132m).
United have since prioritized signing a top striker at the end of the season and have reportedly lined up the likes of Tottenham star, Harry Kane and Benfica’s Goncalo Ramos.
A group of supporters of Labour Party’s governorship candidate for Abia State, Dr Alex Otti has demanded transparency from the Independent National Electoral Commission concerning the state’s just concluded elections.
They accused INEC of withholding results of the governorship and House of Assembly elections after three days.
The Independent National Electoral Commission has resumed the collation of Enugu and Abia states governorship election results.
Recall that INEC had suspended the collation process due to the attack on its office by thugs in Obingwa Local Government Area in Abia State on Sunday, March 19, 2023.
Some of its officials who were in charge of the collation of results from the Local Government Area were also held hostage during the invasion.
Labour Party candidate, Chief Alex Otti, has been declared the winner of the Abia State governorship election that held last Saturday.
Otti was declared winner by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Wednesday, following the collation of results from Obingwa Local Government Area.
According to results from Obingwa, the Peoples Democratic Party scored 9,962 votes and while the Labour Party, 3,776 votes in the LGA.
