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THE presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has won the presidential election in Borno State.  Borno is the home state of vice presidential candidate of the APC, Senator Kashim Shettima. Tinubu was declared the winner of the election at the state collation center on Tuesday. Of the 27 local government areas, where the election was held Saturday, Tinubu won 24 and lost the 4 to Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of People’s Democratic Party (PDP). The state collation officer, Prof. Jude Rabo, announced the result of the election at Sir Kashim Ibrahim College of…

THE Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared all National Assembly elections in Sokoto state inconclusive. News Point Nigeria learnt that the elections were marred by violence and over voting among other irregularities. There are three Senatorial and 11 House of Representatives’ seats in the state. News Point Nigeria gathered that Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal was leading Senator Ibrahim Danbaba Dambuwa of the APC in Sokoto South Senatorial before it was declared inconclusive. According to the results, Tambuwal scored 87,850 votes while Dambuwa secured 79,991 votes. The returning officer, Professor Shehu Usman Gulumbe declared the election Inconclusive due to over…

ATIKU Abubakar, the Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has been declared the winner of the presidential election in Sokoto. The election was however not a walk in the park as Atiku defeated his closest rival Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu with just over 3000 votes. Atiku polled 288,679 votes as against 285,444 which was polled by Tinubu. Following in a great distance was the LP candidate who polled 6,568 votes and the NNPP with 1300 votes. Meanwhile, Atiku also won the presidential election in Kaduna State, sweeping the polls with 554,360 votes, beating Tinubu who polled 399,293 votes.…

THE presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, has emerged as the winner in Zamfara State. The collation officer for Zamfara State presidential election, Professor Kashim Shehu of Federal University of Birnin Kebbi, announced the results in Gusau, the state capital, in the early hours of Tuesday. Shehu noted that the APC’s Tinubu won 12 out of 14 Local Government Areas in the state, while Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party won two. According to the results announced at the presidential election collation centre, Tinubu polled 298,396 votes. The former Lagos State governor was closely followed…

FORMER Governor of Zamfara State, Abdulaziz Yari has been declared the winner of Zamfara West Senatorial in the just concluded Saturday 25th February polls. The Collation Officer for Zamfara West, Professor Rufus Teniola of the Federal University Gusau, declared All Progressive Congress (APC) Abdulaziz Yari winner with a total of 147,346 to defeat his closest rival Bello S. Fagon of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)who polled 55,83 votes. In the result collated, the candidate of the New Nigerian People’s Party (NNPP) polled 363 while Labour Party scored 111 The Senatorial District has six local governments comprising Gummi, Bukkuyum, Anka, Talata…

MONDAY Market in Maiduguri, the biggest in Borno State, has been gutted by fire. News Point Nigeria gathered that the fire started around 2am on Sunday and has spread to different parts of the market. According to a source and shop owner, who spoke to News Point Nigeria via telephone, the fire service are still struggling to completely put off the fire. “It’s almost five hours now and the fire service are doing their best to put off the inferno”. More later…

GOVERNOR Aminu Waziri Tambuwal of Sokoto state just casted his vote at his hometown of Tambuwal. The Governor, who arrived and voted at the Government Girls Day Secondary School, Tambuwal polling unit at about 12:46 pm, observed that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) staff and the materials for voting didn’t set up shop on schedule. This delay, he also observed was not just in his unit but across the state “from the reports I got while waiting here.” He also noted that there was no adequate deployment of security personnel to man the polling units in the state, a…

THE 14th Emir of Kano, Khalifa Muhammadu Sanusi II, on Wednesday berated Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje over the latter’s comment on President Muhammadu Buhari’s New Naira Policy. News Point Nigeria reports that, Khalifa Sanusi stated this while addressing some followers and a select journalists at his Lagos home over the weekend. According to the Khalifa, who is also the leader of the Tijjaniyya Order in Nigeria, Governor Ganduje has no moral right to criticize President Buhari’s policies as the governor was part of the people defending such policies. Recall, Governor Ganduje lashed out at the administration of President Buhari over…

AHEAD of Wednesday’s hearing by the Supreme Court of the case between the Federal Government and three Governors of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, regarding the Naira swap policy, APC, National Chairman, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, has met with the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami. The barely one-hour meeting which was held at the APC National Secretariat on Monday also had in attendance the plaintiffs, Governors Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna state; Yahaya Bello of Kogi State, and Bello Matawalle of Zamfara State. A reliable source close to Governor Matawalle told News Point Nigeria that,…

THE Registrar of Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof Ishaq Oloyede, has said a total of 1.6 million candidates have registered to sit for the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) as sale of UTME forms ends on Wednesday, February 22, 2023. News Point Nigeria reports that, Prof Oloyede, who disclosed this in Abuja on Monday during a monitoring tour of the registration in Abuja led by the Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Education, Andrew David Adajo, said the board had apprehended about 15 people who go against conduct of the UTME registration processes. JAMB commenced the sale of…

THE National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Abdullahi Adamu, is holding an emergency meeting with state governors on the party’s platform. Earlier, it was not totally clear what the agenda for the meeting was today, however, News Point Nigeria learnt that the development might not be unconnected with the growing friction between President Muhammadu Buhari, and some aggrieved governors over the naira redesign policy, which has subjected Nigerians to untold hardship in the last few weeks. Further affirming the speculation, Senator Adamu in his opening remark stated that recent developments necessitated the need for the invitation he…

THE All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential flagbearer, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has assured that his government would never deviate from the essence of democracy by ensuring that true democratic principle of government of the people, by the people and for the people is put in place. Tinubu made the promise at the APC Presidential rally in Maiduguri, even as he insinuated that the Naira redesign and fuel scarcity – which are anti people – are attempts by some people to sabotage his election victory. He vowed to run a government of hard work, honesty and accountability, noting that the people of…

DR John Abebe, the in-law to the former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, has bagged seven years imprisonment for forgery and laundering. Justice Mojisola Dada of Ikeja Special Offences Court gave the verdict on Saturday with an option of fine to the tune of N50 million to be paid within 30 days in lieu of imprisonment. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission arraigned Abebe, who is the younger brother to the late former First Lady, Stella Obasanjo before the court for forgery. The EFCC, in the charges, claimed that Abebe “knowingly forged” a November 30, 1995 letter written by BP Exploration Nigeria…

THE Zamfara State Police Command has arrested a 20-year-old boy for allegedly masterminding abduction of his mother and three others and collecting the sum of N30m as ransom. The state police spokesperson, SP Mohammed Shehu, while addressing journalists in Gusau, the state capital, on Friday, said the suspect, Thomas Yau, informed the police that he connived with four other and N10m was paid by each of the kidnap victims, including his mother, totalling N30m ransom. Shehu said, “On February 12, 2023, the Zamfara Police Command, through its community policing engagement, acted on intelligence information that led to the bursting of…

A PAIR of lawmakers have called on the United States to rescind a nearly $1 billion helicopter sale to Nigeria, saying that allegations of a forced abortion program have renewed concerns on human rights. News Point Nigeria reports that, the US Congress had delayed the sale over concerns about the Nigerian army’s commitment to protect civilians as it battles a jihadist uprising in the northwest, as well as the bloody repression of protests against police violence in 2020. But President Joe Biden’s administration approved the sale of the 12 Viper attack helicopters last year, saying the equipment would promote security…

A COMBINED team of troops of the Nigerian Army and Navy have neutralized seven bandits during clearance operations in the Kasso general area of Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State. While confirming the development,Samuel Aruwan,Commissioner, Ministry of Internal Security and Home Affairs, Kaduna State, said operational feedback to the Kaduna State Government revealed that the troops embarked on the operations, and made contact with bandits around Ungwan Rimi village in Kasso, near a river. “The troops promptly engaged and subdued the bandits after an intense gun duel. Seven bandits were confirmed neutralized during the operation, with the high possibility…

THE ruling All Progressives Congress on Friday morning released its primary election timetable for the governorship office in three states namely Kogi, Bayelsa and Imo States. News Point Nigeria gathered that, the timetable was approved for release by the party after a series of meetings with its National Executive Committee and the National Working in Abuja. A closer look at the new primary election schedule published on Friday shows that, other than dates and venues, it wasn’t really different from the previous ones used for the timetable deployed last year for other states’ primary. Unlike in the category of the…

THE Department of State Services has written to the Federal Ministry of Transportation confirming that its intelligence revealed that the Boko Haram terrorists are planning to launch a fresh attack on the Abuja-Kaduna train service. The Ministry of Transportation, in an internal memo obtained by News Point Nigeria on Thursday, therefore wrote to the Federal Minister of Defence, Maj Gen Bashir Magashi, asking for security reinforcement to forestall the terrorists attack. The letter dated, February 3, 2023, and titled, “Re: Threat by Boko Haram terrorists to attack the Abuja-Kaduna Train Service” was signed by Mu’azu Jaji Sambo, the transportation Minister.…

THE United States Government has returned $954,000 stolen by the former Governor of Bayelsa State, Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, to the state government through the Federal Government. US Ambassador to Nigeria, Mary Beth Leonard announced the development at a press briefing on Thursday afternoon in Abuja. She said the official salary of the former governor during his tenure as a public servant from 1999 to his impeachment in 2005 did not match the said amount. “However, during that time, he accumulated millions of dollars through abuse of office, money laundering,” she said. Alamieyeseigha died in October 2015 at the age of 62.…

KADUNA State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, on Wednesday alleged that some Federal Government officials are seeking out-of-court settlement over the controversy trailing the naira redesign by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). Earlier on Wednesday, the Supreme Court adjourned the suit filed by state governments to challenge the naira redesign policy of the apex bank till February 22. In a statement released a few hours after the apex court’s adjournment, El-Rufai dismissed reports that some governors had held a meeting with the Federal Government over the issue. The governor, in a statement by his media aide, Muyiwa Adekeye made available to…