FARMERS in Akure North Local Government Area of Ondo State, yesterday, urged Governor Rotimi Akeredolu to curb the incessant attacks by suspected herdsmen, who plan to eject them and take over their farmlands. The farmers in Ajegunle/Powerline community, in the council, alleged that there have been repeated attacks on the farmers of the community, calling for urgent intervention of the state government before the issue gets out of control. In a chat with newsmen, the spokesperson of the farmers, Abraham Olowo, said: “The attacks have started for the past two weeks but the climax of it all is the attack…
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A member of the Benue State Community Volunteer Guards, BSCVGs, and six others have been killed by suspected armed herdsmen in a fresh attack on Tse Fela in Mbabuande Council Ward and Tse Akyegh in Ikaaghev Council Ward of Gwer West Local Government Area of the state. It was gathered that the BSCVGs member, who was killed in the attack was the Ward Commander of the Guards. It will be recalled that the two council wards had not long suffered the same fate, when the marauders sacked several villages in the area, killing many and rendering hundreds of families homeless.…
Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika has said the use of social media platforms influenced the popularity of the presidential party of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, at the polls on Saturday’s presidential election. The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, declared Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress, APC, as the winner and President-elect of the 2023 presidential election. Tinubu polled 8,794,726 votes, while Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, was the runner-up with 6,984,520 and Peter Obi who had only spent nine months with LP, amassed 6,101,533 votes. Reacting to the election results recorded by Obi before the…
Tech giant, Google has announced applications for the third cohort of the Black Founders Fund for Startups opened in Africa and Europe in consonance with its dedication to digital transformation and in backing black-founded startups. In its declaration, Google, this year, has committed $4 million to support eligible black-founded startups. This will make the startups that are functional and also have their headquarters in Africa or have a legal presence on the Dark Continent with eligibility to apply for the Black Founders Fund.Other eligibility conditions for startups that wish to apply are that the business should be benefiting the…
The Vice Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Dr Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed, has assured Nigerians especially party supporters that he and his principal, Mr Peter Obi, are prepared to pursue and retrieve their mandate through the legal system. He appealed to Nigerians to continue to exercise their franchise because democracy belongs to those who can practice it. Baba-Ahmed said this at a media briefing at the LP Presidential Campaign Secretariat in his first comment after the Independent National Electoral Commission declared Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu as President-Elect, in Abuja, on Wednesday. He said, “We ask Nigerians to continue to exercise…
Former Ekiti State governor, Ayodele Fayose has advised the Presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the just concluded election, Peter Obi to run away from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to avoid suffering the same misfortune they currently suffer. Recall that both the PDP and the Labour Party held a joint press conference on Tuesday in what seemed like an alliance to call for the cancellation of the presidential election that held on Saturday over INEC’s failure to upload results to its server directly from polling units. Obi who was Atiku’s running mate in 2019, left the…
Former Minister Niger Delta Affairs and Senator-Elect for Akwa Ibom North West Senatorial District, Senator Godswill Akpabio, has said that the emergence of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, as President-Elect, represents signs of better days ahead for the country. The former governor of Akwa Ibom State stated this while reacting to the victory of the APC Presidential candidate as declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Wednesday morning in Abuja. According to him, the victory was a demonstration of his acceptance across the country and beyond. Akpabio who is returning to the Senate for the second time after a brief…
Rescue Nigeria Global Network (RNGN) during her meeting held on Tuesday 28th February 2023 thanked Nigerians for standing for Nigeria through the 25th February election. The meeting was attended by all the regions: Europe, America, Australia, Africa, Asia, and the Middle east. Also by national and state coordinators from all over the world and the 36 States of Nigeria plus FCT Abuja. The appointed spokespersons after the Global meeting Dr. Michael Chukwujekwu, Prof. Mohamed, Barr Ayoola, and Prof. Clara Egonwan maintained that the great country will surely work again void of corrupt electoral malpractices together with errors of commission…
The Chairman Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Abia State chapter, Apostle Emmanuel Agonmuo, has expressed disappointment over the outcome the 2023 presidential and national assembly elections, saying the exercise was highly flawed. Apostle Agonmuo who spoke with Vanguard in Umuahia, accused the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, of dashing the hope and expectations of Nigerians particularly the youths who believed the assurances by the electoral umpire that the polls would be credible. He wondered why INEC would fail to upload the poll results through the Bi-modal Voter Accreditation System, BVAS, as it earlier promised, saying that the failure was…
The president-elect, Ahmed Bola Tinubu has received his Certificate of Return. The Certificate was given to him by the Chairman of the Independent Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Mahmood Yakubu on Wednesday. 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. Tinubu polled 8, 794, 726 while Atiku garnered 6,984,520. Obi scored 6,101,533 and Kwankwaso got 1, 496, 687.