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The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has announced that it arrested six suspected vote buyers during the governorship election in Imo state on Saturday, November 11.    The ICPC said it was able to recover a total of N4.1 million in cash from the suspects involved …

  Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have arrested 14 (Fourteen) suspected vote buyers in Otueke, Adawari playgrounds in Bayelsa State and at various polling units in Imo and Kogi States.   A statement from the antigraft agency says they were arrested on Saturday, November 11, 2023 …

Suspected gunmen invaded polling units at All Saints Anglican Cathedral and attacked vote buyers, carting away over N1.5 million found on them.    The gunmen, numbering over 10, snatched the money that was being shared to voters at the four polling units within the cathedral premises.     According to …

Senator Mitt Romney claims that his Republican colleagues would have voted to impeach the former President Donald Trump but were too afraid of what his supporters might do to their families. The revelation comes via author McKay Coppins, who discussed his biography titled, “Romney: A Reckoning,’ with Vanity Fair contributor …

Minister of FCT, Nyesom Wike who hosted some members of the All Progressives Congress today, October 26, hours after the supreme court affirmed the victory of President Bola Tinubu, has pledged to mobilize electoral support for his current principal in the next election.    Wike stated that he has no …

Conservative Republican says he expects a third vote on his faltering bid for speaker job on Thursday. Conservative Jim Jordan has sought more time to bolster his faltering bid for the top job in the United States House of Representatives after losing a second vote, while his fellow Republicans considered …

The US House of Representatives held another vote to determine the Speaker of the House on Tuesday. Ohio’s Jim Jordan thought he might have the votes, but it turned out that he did not. Multiple Republicans voted for former Speaker Kevin McCarthy or a number of other randoms, while Democrats …

In response to Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) potentially forcing a speaker vote on the House floor, anti-Jordan votes threatened to not show up and let Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) win the election. This is how toxic things have become on the Republican side of …

While Democrats aren’t formally engaged in trying to flip any Republican speaker votes yet, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) powerfully argued why five of them should vote for Rep. Hakeem Jeffries for speaker. Rep. Ocasio-Cortez tweeted: Given that the vote for Speaker was supposed to …

Republicans toiled on Tuesday to unite around a candidate for speaker on the eve of an internal party contest that has highlighted their divisions amid deep uncertainty in the House of Representatives. Fewer than half of House Republicans had publicly announced their support for either of the leading candidates to …