North East

After the announcement of results from Adamawa’s 21 local government areas, Mr Fintiri polled the highest votes in the election...

After the announcement of results from Adamawa’s 21 local government areas, Mr Fintiri polled more votes than Binani.

The Returning Officer, Abdulkarim Mohammed, a professor at the Federal University, Dutse, Jigawa State, announced the results on Monday.

Mai Mala Buni won in all the 17 local government areas of the state with a total of 317,113 votes

Aishatu ‘Binani’ Dahiru, candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), seeks to become the first woman to be elected state...

INEC officials had postponed the announcement of the result of the election from the remaining local government area, Fufore, till...

Governor Zulum is leading his PDP opponent with lead with over 350,000 votes

Mr Zulum of the APC has polled a total of 291,174 from the 17 LGAs while Mohammed Jajari of the...

Mr Fintri won in 11 out of the 18 local government areas' results announced so far.

Binani defeated her closest rival and incumbent governor, Ahmadu Fintiri, of the PDP in Yola South Local Government Area with...

The Gombe State governor, Yahaya, won the governorship election for a second term on Sunday.

He polled 27,351 while Mrs Dahiru polled a distant 9,650 to come second place.

The gap between Binani and Fintiri so far is less than 10,000 votes after 10 local governments.

So far, results from five out of the 27 LGAs had been presented.

He said there would be room for observations in the collation process to ensure that all stakeholders were carried along.

Governor Yahaya of Gombe State won his polling unit with 467 votes.

Mr Umar said he was arrested by a police officer attached to Kekeno(005) under Kukawa of Kukawa Local Government Area...

He said the PDP governorship candidate polled 160 votes while Mr Yahaya of the APC polled 195 votes.

The suspects were arrested with N1.9 million cash

The governor said he was happy with the conduct of the election

Mafa is the headquarters of Mafa Local Government Area of Borno, it is about 35km from Maiduguri.

Unarmed policemen were observed escorting corps members, ad hoc staff and election materials to various polling units as early as...

Only three women out of the 101 confirmed senators-elect are female, a reduction from the current crop of eight women.

A total of 11 candidates are taking part in the Borno governorship but only two are considered strong contenders.

EFCC accused the former minister, Mr Wakil, and his co-defendants of receiving N450 million from the $115million disbursed by then...