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Advertisement Celebrity barman Pascal Chibuike Okechukwu, better known as Cubana Chief Priest has reacted to the demolition of parts of prophet Chukwuemeka Ohanemere’s, church. Recall that Naija News earlier reported that the ministry located at no 88B Bida Road, Fegge, Onitsha which was earlier marked for demolition in April by …

President Muhammadu Buhari has warned Nigerians against perpetrating violence in the forthcoming general elections. The nation’s leader stated that those who indulged in violence will not escape the wrath of the law and advised the citizens to be peaceful and shun political thuggery. Buhari spoke on Monday during the women conference of the …

Republicans in Texas have formally rejected US President Joe Biden’s election in 2020 as illegitimate while also calling homosexuality an “abnormal lifestyle choice.”   The Party’s embrace of electoral fraud allegations in a key Republican state came as a bipartisan congressional committee is currently holding a hearing to publicly debunk …

Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo, has said that reports of voting-buying in the governorship election in Ekiti State is not solely synonymous to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).    Reacting to reports of mass vote buying and selling in Ekiti governorship election which the ruling party’s candidate, Biodun …

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared APC’s Biodun Oyebanji the winner of the 2022 Ekiti state governorship election. According to the electoral body, Oyebanji polled a total of 187,057 votes to defeat his two closest challengers, Segun Oni of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) who polled a total …

Ekiti went to polls today, June 18 2022, to elect a governor that will take over from the administration Governor of Kayode Fayemi. The poll, which was contested in 16 local governments across the state, has the APC candidate as one of the favourites to win the race. The two …

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested persons alleged to have engaged in vote-buying in the Ekiti governorship election. Parading some of the suspects at the Oke Ori Omi Area Division of the Nigerian Police Force, the suspects were said to have been caught with monies allegedly used to …

Voters in Ekiti state have said they will not concede to vote-buying in their ongoing governorship elections.   According to them, Ekiti is a state of professors. They said they are not illiterates so won’t sell their votes.    The residents of the state are currently at the polls to …

Kalu said the ruling party needs to present a Muslim-Muslim presidential ticket to win the forthcoming election. According to him, the APC may lose the election if it fails to go for a Northern Muslim Vice Presidential candidate as a running mate to Bola Ahmed Tinubu, a muslim southerner, who …

Gbajabimaila, in his welcome remarks on Tuesday, June 14, 2022, blamed the indirect primaries system for the woeful performance of the lawmakers during the primaries. He noted that the lawmakers had fought against the indirect primaries because they saw it coming. It would be recalled that the National Assembly had …