Tanzania beat rivals Uganda 3-0 in Dar es Salaam on Sunday to qualify for the Africa Cup of Nations finals for the first time since 1980. The Taifa Stars secured the victory they needed to join already-qualified Uganda at Egypt 2019 from Group L. Lesotho drew 0-0 in Cape Verde which confirmed Tanzania’s qualification as runners-up to Uganda in the ... Read More »
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GTBank Dominates CBN E-Payments Efficiency Awards, Wins 8 Out Of 12Banking Honours
Guaranty Trust Bank plc continued its dominance of Nigeria’s most qualitative digital financial service awards for the fourth year in a row, winning eight of the twelve honours available to Banks in the 2019 edition of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Electronic Payment Incentive Scheme (EPIS) Efficiency Awards. The foremost African financial institution, renowned for its innovative products and services, won ... Read More »
IT’S OFFICIAL: Ortom reelected Benue governor
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared Samuel Ortom, candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), winner of the governorship election in Benue state. The governor’s victory comes on the back of the supplementary election held in some polling units across the state. Sebastian Maimako, the returning officer in the state, declared Ortom winner on Sunday after he secured ... Read More »
UBA Hinges Future Performance on Cost Efficiency, Improved Asset Quality
Pan African financial institution, United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc has assured its local and international investors that it’s prudent focus on improved asset quality as well as the continuous adoption of strict cost efficient measures will help the bank achieve its objectives and priorities for the 2019 financial year and beyond. This the bank has said will culminate into ... Read More »
[UPDATE] PDP’s Bala Mohammed Wins Supplementary Election In Bauchi
The candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Bala Mohammed, has won the supplementary election in Bauchi State. Returning Officer Professor Kyari Mohammed made the announcement on Sunday, a day after the exercise took place in the state. According to him, the PDP candidate polled a total of 6,376 while the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Muhammed Abubakar, who ... Read More »
Wole Arisekola writes Akwa Ibom Rec open letter
While we wait for the Akwa Ibom Election Petitions Tribunal to expose the fraud behind the ‘Jankara’ election you conducted in the state during the just concluded general election, I will not shy away from congratulating you for your recent award as the most notorious ‘con artist ‘ in the history of our dear country. I read your interview ... Read More »
Tambuwal re-elected Sokoto governor with 341 votes difference
Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has just been declared winner of Sokoto state governors has just won the Sokoto governorship supplemenatry election. The PDP candidate polled 512,002 votes in total to defeat the APC’s Ahmad Aliyu who got 511,661 – just a difference of 341 votes. Read More »
We have not announced results in Bauchi because Returning officer has not arrived inec
Armstrong Bakam, Bauchi The final collation and declaration of results of the supplementary elections for Bauchi State took a strange twist with the Resident Electoral Commissioner, Ibrahim Abdullahi, claiming that the returning officer, Prof. Kyari Mohammed, has yet to arrive the state. The supplementary elections took place in 36 Polling Units in 29 Wards of 20 Local Government Areas of ... Read More »
Why we suspended collation in kano Inec
There is uncertainty surrounding yesterday’s Kano State supplementary governorship election after the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) suspended the collation of results following a disruption of the process by hoodlums. Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Riskuwa Shehu, announced the suspension of collation early this morning citing the invasion of Nasarawa Local government collation centre by thugs. Briefing journalists, observers and party ... Read More »
OKOROCHA’S SWAN SONG By RAY EKPU
19 March 2019 In the last few days, Mr. Rochas Okorocha, the Governor of Imo State, seems to be a sober man. In the last eight years that he has been the keeper of the shop at Imo, he has carried on the business of managing that shop with an unusual swagger, wielding power with a tremendous sense of ... Read More »