NO fewer than 105 buildings were destroyed by a rainstorm at Oke-Ako in the Ikole Local Government Area of Ekiti State on Saturday evening. The heavy downpour, which lasted for over two hours, also destroyed some electricity infrastructure across the town, thereby subjecting the residents to total blackout. The Ekiti State Governor, Biodun Oyebanji, who condoled with residents of the community, described the occurrence as highly devastating. Oyebanji, who was represented by the Deputy Governor, Mrs Monisade Afuye, on Saturday, during a on-the-spot assessment of the level of the havoc wreaked on the town, assured the victims that government would…
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THE Ogun State Police Command has warned politicians and their supporters to play by the rules in the build-up to the March 11 governorship and state house of assembly elections in the state. The state Commissioner of Police, Frank Mba, gave the warning on Friday during a one-day interactive parley with members of political parties, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), and other partners. While assuring residents and other critical stakeholders of utmost professionalism and impartiality, he however warned that the long arm of the law will be made to catch up with would-be criminals bent on scuttling the electoral…
THE 15-year-old son of a senior officer serving at the Lagos State Police Command has been confirmed dead after a fire outbreak at Falamo Police Barracks in Ikoyi area of Lagos. Reports say the inferno gutted Room 24, Block 1 occupied by one Assistant Superintendent of Police Godspower David attached to Bar Beach Division in Victoria Island. Confirming the incident, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in Lagos, Benjamin Hundeyin recalled that the incident was reported to the Divisional Police Officer in Ikoyi while a team of emergency responders were drafted to the scene and successfully put out the fire.…
GOVERNOR Nyesom Wike of Rivers State on Friday thanked Nigerians for supporting the return of power to Southern Nigeria. News Point Nigeria reports that, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governor said the issue of rotational presidency has been settled for good with the emergence of a President-Elect, Bola Tinubu, who is from the southern region of the country. Wike spoke today when he joined his Oyo State counterpart, Seyi Makinde to commission the Oyo State 5,000,000-litre Aviation Fuel Dispensing Depot at the Ibadan Airport in the Alakia area of the state. In the buildup to the February 25 presidential poll,…
IN what appears like a copy-cat replay of an ongoing suit over the move by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to ban the use of some denomination of old currencies, six states of the federation; Adamawa, Akwa-Ibom, Bayelsa, Delta, Edo and Sokoto have dragged the federal government before the Supreme Court over the conduct, collation and announcement of the February 25, 2023 presidential and National Assembly elections. News Point Nigeria reports that, the States want the apex court to declare that the pronouncement of the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, as winner of the February…
PRESIDENT-ELECT, Bola Tinubu, will be moving to the Defence Guest House in Maitama District of Abuja. He will function at the Defence Guest House until he is sworn-in as President on May 29, 2023. “The President-elect will be moving into Defence House, in Maitama, FCT, where he will spend the next couple of months, and from where he will move into the Presidential Villa,” a tweet by the All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council read on Thursday. The notice came barely 78 hours after the Independent National Electoral Commission declared Tinubu as the winner of the February 25 presidential elections.…
THE National Judicial Council (NJC) has reinstated Justice Babajide Aladejana of Ekiti State High Court to office after 16 years of suspension. Aladejana was suspended from office in 2006 with the state’s former Chief Judge, Justice Kayode Bamisile, under the administration of the former Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Alfa Belgore. The duo were suspended for their alleged roles in the political crisis that led to the impeachment of the former Governor of the state, Ayodele Fayose.October 16, 2006, over alleged N1.4 billion poultry scandal, abuse of office and illegal operation of a foreign account. However, Aladejana officially resumed work…
THE President-Elect, Bola Tinubu has set up committees to meet aggrieved presidential candidates to start the “healing process”. Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State and a member of the committees disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday by his Chief Press Secretary, Richard Olatunde. He said a Committee of Elders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) would soon begin to meet with co-contestants of the President-elect in a bid to assuage their loss in the just concluded poll. He stressed that every aggrieved person will be met for reconciliation. “The President-elect has set up committees to meet with the gentlemen…
FORMER Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, on Wednesday, announced his resignation from the Peoples Democratic Party and also quit partisan politics. This is coming hours after his party, the PDP lost the presidential election to the All Progressives Congress. Fayose, who announced his resignation while appearing as a guest on ARISE TV revealed that the PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar rejected the offer of one term in office to get the G5 governors’ support. Atiku lost the G5 governors’ states to APC’s Tinubu who won three and Labour Party candidate, Obi won two states. Announcing his resignation, Fayose said, “From…
THE Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, has appealed to the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress in the just concluded election, Bola Tinubu, to ensure he doesn’t disappoint Nigerians and the people of Africa after been declared Nigeria’s president-elect. The foremost Yoruba monarch made the appeal in a congratulatory message to Tinubu released on Wednesday by the his Palace Director of Media and Public Affairs, Otunba Moses Olafare. The Ooni described Tinubu as a man of destiny, a game changer and a progressive workaholic who does not only merit the victory but also has adequate proven capacity to…
VICE-PRESIDENT Yemi Osinbajo on Wednesday paid President-elect Bola Tinubu compliments on his victory at the recently concluded 2023 presidential election. Tinubu, who campaigned on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), was declared the winner by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in the small hours of the same day. After a hard-fought battle, the former Lagos State governor defeated Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Peter Obi of Labour Party (LP) in the February 25 poll. Before Tinubu’s emergence as the party’s candidate, Osinbajo was one of his major challengers at the June 6, 2022…
THE President-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu has vowed to make Nigeria great. Tinubu disclosed this on Wednesday moments after he received the Certificate of Return. The Chairman of the Independent Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Mahmood Yakubu handed the Certificate of Return to Tinubu having declared him the winner of the presidential election. Tinubu won 12 states, his closest rival Atiku Abubakar of the People’s Democratic PDP, also won 12 states. The candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Mr Peter Obi won 11 states including FCT while the candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, Rabiu Kwankwaso won one state. However,…
THE Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, said the nation’s democracy has recorded another major victory, following the emergence of his predecessor and leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu as President-elect of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in the just concluded presidential election. Governor Sanwo-Olu, in a swift reaction to the announcement of presidential election results by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in the early hours of Wednesday, said Tinubu contested and won a fiercely-fought democratic battle, stressing that the victory reflected the All Progressive Congress (APC) candidate’s belief in deepening democracy in the country. The Governor said the choice…
THE president-elect, Bola Tinubu, Wednesday, assured Nigerians that he would be the chief servant and serve Nigeria with all he’s got. This is as he also appealed to opposition parties and his challengers to join him in his mission to achieve the desired country. “Let’s collaborate and work together. I promise to work with you,” Tinubu said while giving his acceptance speech in Abuja. News Point Nigeria reports that, at the event were his vice-president-elect, Kashim Shettima, All Progressives Congress National Chairman, Abdullahi Adamu, and APC governors, among others. Speaking further, the former Lagos State governor, commended Nigerians, particularly those…
SENATOR Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has been declared winner of arguably Nigeria’s most hotly contested and high-stakes presidential elections. Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmood Yakubu, announced the former Lagos Governor’s victory, minutes past 4am on Wednesday at the National Collation Centre in Abuja, a hall packed full of journalists, party agents and observers. “That Tinubu Bola Ahmed of the APC, having satisfied the requirement of the law, is hereby declared the winner and is returned elected,” Professor Yakubu declared in an announcement watched by an eager nation and many…
THE flag bearer of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu is in the lead in Nigeria’s keenly contested presidential election with official results coming in from 32 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja. According to results presented by state collation officers for the presidential election (SCOPs) before the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Mahmood Yakubu, at the National Collation Centre in Abuja, Tinubu polled 8,120,391 from 32 states and the FCT. Tinubu was followed by Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who scored 6,486,000 from the 32 states and the FCT. The Labour…
THE All Progressives Congress (APC) and its presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, have instituted a suit to restrain the Labour Party (LP) and the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) from doing anything to stop the collation and announcement of the results of the February 25 presidential election. In the suit filed before the Federal High Court in Kano and marked FHC/KN/CS/43/2023, the Action Alliance and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) were joined as defendants while the Vice Presidential of the APC, Kashim Shettima, was also listed as plaintiff. The plaintiffs in a motion on notice filed alongside the originating…
THE All Progressives Congress (APC) has won all the three Senatorial seats in Ondo state in the Saturday’s National Assembly elections. The party won in Ondo South Senatorial District with 110,665 votes against the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) which polled 65,784 votes. In Ondo Central Senatorial District, APC won with 103,871 votes while the PDP had 74,702 votes. In Ondo North Senatorial District, APC scored 115,933 votes against PDP which got 48,842 votes. APC also clinched eight out of the nine House of Representatives seats in the state. The results are below: House of Representatives 1. Owo/Ose federal Constituency APC…
A SECTION of the multi-billion naira Blue Rail Mass Transit project at Marina, Lagos State, has been gutted by fire. News Point Nigeria learnt that the section, which houses a generator used in the facility, was affected by the fire on Tuesday. However, no life was lost and no one was injured, as the fire was quickly put out by firefighters from both the Federal and State fire stations before it could spread to other sections. The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed the incident. He said, “The fire at Marina started from the generator of the…
THE Chairperson of the Commonwealth Observer Group and former president of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, yesterday said Nigeria’s 2023 general elections were “largely peaceful” despite administrative and logistics hurdles at many polling units. Also, the ECOWAS Observation Mission described the elections as generally peaceful and transparent. This is coming as the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, is so far leading with 6,300,834 votes according to results of last Saturday’s presidential election so far announced at the National Collation Centre in Abuja and as declared in 18 states collation centres across the country. Delivering his…