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“It was indeed a Black Sunday in the entire Ijaw nation.”

The Presidential Election Petition Court fixed Friday for further hearing on Peter Obi’s petition.

A similar cleanup in the neighbouring Rivers State has suffered several years of delay.

NiMet urged all airline operators to avail themselves of weather reports periodically from its office to plan their operations effectively.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), through its Returning Officer for Khana/Gokhana Constituency, Kingsely Owete, declared the result at Bori, ...

Some of the voters attributed the voter apathy to doubts over the transparent conduct of the elections.

The protest by the PDP has continued into a second day.

The NCDC said that 71 per cent of all new confirmed Lassa fever cases were reported from Ondo, Edo and ...

The military said its troops sustained the war against oil theft, illegal refining and other criminal activities in the Niger ...

“We can confirm that we are collating relevant information, with a view to taking action against some individuals,” it said ...

He said Mr Tambuwal betrayed PDP, Wike and Tinubu.

Mr Obi says he won the election if unlawful votes were to be removed from Mr Tinubu’s scores in Rivers, ...

It also noted how vote-buying and trading characterised the governorship elections in many states.

Sim Fubara scored 302,614 votes to win the election in the Niger Delta state.

Vote buying remains a challenge in Nigeria’s electoral process, the centre says.

The election was peaceful and orderly with police personnel stationed at each polling station

“The thugs have been arrested,” he said. “Five pump action guns have been recovered (from them)."

The CDD tasks INEC to learn lessons from the presidential election.

Mr Fubara is the PDP governorship candidate in Rivers State

INEC announced the results in a statement by its Public Affairs Officer, Geraldine Ekelemu, in Port Harcourt on Saturday

The victims were scooping crude products when the explosion occurred, the police said.

Obi won the election in Yenagoa, which is the capital of Bayelsa.

There have been reports of attacks and suppression of voters in Rivers State.

Mr Alalibo said the process went on smoothly in all the LGAs, though the presiding officers had a problem uploading ...

Governor Wike of Rivers on Tuesday presented the cheque of N20 million to each widow of the three slain officers.