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Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has declined comment on the recent discovery and media report that Mr Peter Obi of Labour Party, and not Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC),  won the presidential poll in Rivers State according to results uploaded on the INEC Results Viewing Portal (IReV). INEC National Commissioner and Head Voter Education and Publicity, Mr Festus Okoye, Monday, told Ikengaonline in an exclusive interview, that the electoral umpire would not comment on the matter which is already a subject of litigation. He said that since the matter was already pending…

By Owei Lakemfa Prince Bolasodun Adesumbo ‘Bola’ Ajibola, former Attorney General and Minister of Justice, and ex-judge of the International Court of Justice, ICJ, passed away on April 9, 2023 at 89. Deservedly, lots of encomiums have been showered on the late founder of Crescent University and former Nigeria High Commissioner to the United Kingdom. However, nagging questions remain: should a good man serve a bad government? Should an honest man be the chief legal adviser of a dishonest government? Should a learned man immersed in the rule of law, serve a lawless government steeped in executive lawlessness? When…

EDITORIAL Since he traded his khaki uniform for an Agbada, President Buhari and his image makers have worked relentlessly to launder his image from a cold-blooded military dictator to a reformed democrat who is ready to submit to the rule of law. Thus far, he has failed woefully, not because it’s such an onerous task to accomplish, but mostly due to a lack of willingness to even try It has been almost twenty-one months since Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Biafran separatist movement, the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), was illegally abducted from the East African country…

An unusual silence has echoed from the camp of President-elect Bola Tinubu after his Guinean diplomatic passport surfaced on social media, sending internet users into a frenzy over how the new leader of Africa’s largest economy lied to the nation’s electoral commission while under oath. On Saturday night, minutes before midnight, independent journalist David Hundeyin uploaded images of a Guinean diplomatic passport bearing “Bola Ahmed Tinubu” on his Twitter account. The passport also carried Mr Tinubu’s image and said it was issued in October 2015, expiring five years later in October 2020. The passport was apparently issued to Mr Tinubu…

Stephen Ukandu with Agency Report Scores of soldiers and civilians were killed and many wounded following heavy fighting that broke out in Sudan weekend. The power tussle between two Generals escalated dramatically on Saturday and Sunday leading to the death of many. It remains unclear who has the upper hand in the power struggle, according to media reports, which said fighting around the Sudanese army’s general command in the capital Khartoum had intensified. No fewer than 83 people have died and 1,126 others have been injured in heavy fighting in Sudan between the army and the influential paramilitary group Rapid…

Ike Nnachi, Abakaliki The All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) has won the rescheduled election in the Ezza North/Ishielu Federal Constituency of Ebonyi State. The candidate of APGA, Nwobashi Joseph was declared the winner by the INEC Collation Officer, Prof. Austine Ibegbu. The declaration followed a supplementary election, which held on April 15, 2023, in the Constituency after the March 18 primary was declared inconclusive. The APGA candidate polled a total of  11,890 votes to defeat his closest rival, the candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who got 11,150 votes. The candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Nora Aloh, came third with 1088 votes…

Ben Ezechime, Enugu The National Population Commission (NPC), says the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) will not be a threat to the 2023 national population and housing census in the South-East geopolitical zone of the country. The census is scheduled to hold nationwide from May 3 to May 5. The NPC Federal Commissioner for Enugu State, Mr Ejike Eze, gave the assurance in Enugu. Eze said the group had sufficiently understood the need to allow residents to participate in the exercise to make it successful as doing otherwise would not help its cause. He noted that the NPC had encounters with…

Ike Nnachi, Abakaliki Constitutional and rights Lawyer, Femi Falana, has slammed President Muhammadu Buhari for refusing to assent to Child Education Rights amendment law. This is as he lamented that Nigeria has the worst case of out of school children which he put at over 20 million. Mr Falana stated this in a statement he issued on Monday April, 10, 2023. He noted that sometime in January 2023, the National Assembly forwarded 35 Constitutional Amendment Bills to President Muhammadu Buhari for his assent. According to him, for reasons best known to him, the President assented to 16 out of the…

Ike Nnachi, Abakaliki The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared Chidi Nwoke of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as the winner of the Ebonyi North State Constituency election. Mr Nwoke defeated Maxwell Umahi, younger brother of Governor David Umahi to clinch the position. The younger Umahi is the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the said election. This is one of the results of the supplementary elections held in some parts of Ebonyi State on Saturday, the 15th of April, 2023. Mr Nwoke garnered a total of 5,988 votes to defeat Mr Umahi who came second with 5,664…

Our Reporter, Abuja The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has suspended the collation of the Adamawa State Supplementary election. The commission announced this in a statement issued on Sunday. Hudu Ari, the Resident Electoral Commission (REC), had declared Senator Aisha Dahiru, aka Binani, as winner of the election under controversial circumstances. But Festus Okoye, INEC’s commissioner in charge of publicity and voter education, overruled him and ordered suspension of the collation. The statement reads: ‘’The attention of the Commission has been drawn to a purported declaration of winner in the Adamawa Governorship election by the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC)…