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Nasir el-Rufai, governor of Kaduna state, says Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), must have been dreaming when he said he defeated President Muhammadu Buhari in Kaduna. Atiku had told the election petition tribunal that Kaduna was among the states where the Independent National Electoral Commission …

Olusola Fabiyi,  Olalekan Adetayo, John Alechenu, John Ameh, Bakam Armstrong and Ted Odogwu Thugs wielding dangerous weapons on Saturday disrupted voting in some polling units in Kano State at Gama and Yelwa in Nassarawa and  Dala local government areas respectively. The gangs armed with sticks, knives and machetes began patrolling …

The rescheduled by-election to fill the vacuum created by the death of APC House of Assembly candidate for Nassarowo/Biyere constituency two weeks to the general elections was on Saturday marred by low turnout. Correspondent Owolabi Adenusi reports that the supplementary polls for Nassawo-Biyeri and Uba Gaya constituencies in Adamawa State …

Kashim Shettima, Governor of Borno State, will on Monday inaugurate an investigative panel to probe the illegalities going on inside the Maiduguri Maximum Security Prison. SaharaReporters had published an article by Charles Okah on the various illegal activities such as child prostitution, sodomy and forced abortion going on at the …

Governor Gaidam The Yobe State Executive Council meeting presided over by the DeputyGovernor, Abubakar D. Aliyu has approved the sum of N6,163,018,038.32for fresh capital projects across the state. Addressing journalists after the meeting on Wednesday, the StateCommissioner of Home Affairs, Information and Culture, Alhaji MalaMusti, said the council approved the …

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Result sheets for Kebbe Local Government Area (LGA) have been whisked away by security agents, SaharaReporters has been told. According to reports from the area, shots were fired to scare away voters, and the result sheets for Kuchi collation centre were carted away by the said persons. Meanwhile, announcement of …

Ilorin – Mr Issa Aremu, a former Governorship candidate in Kwara State on Sunday called on Nigerian leaders to promote the values and legacies of late Maj.-Gen. Babatunde Idiagbon. Late Idiagbon Aremu made the call in a lecture to commemorate the 20 years anniversary of the death of Idiagbon in …

Some civil servants in Kaduna State have hailed the approval of N30,000 minimum wage for workers in the country, but cautioned against raising the costs of goods and services due to the salary increase. The workers, in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Kaduna …

Nasir Mansur Mohammed, one of the voters attacked in Kano State during Saturday’s supplementary elections, says he doesn’t think the “fraud called elections in Nigeria” is worth dying for. Mohammed was attacked by thugs bearing weapons when he went to cast his vote at Santulma Primary School polling unit in …