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Gathering jumbo votes from his North-west and North-east strongholds, President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC) this morning finally subdued his closest rival in last Saturday’s presidential election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) At the completion of collation of results this morning in Abuja, the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, said Buhari prevailed with 15,191,847 votes to Atiku’s 11,262,978, bringing to a close days of anxiety over the possible outcome of the contest many had thought would be close. “President Muhammadu Buhari having scored the highest number of votes is hereby declared the winner,” Yakubu said, adding that the certificate of return would be presented to the president-elect and the vice-president-elect at 2pm today. Out of the president’s haul, 9,234,434 came from the far North zones. Overall, Buhari put up a...

President Muhammadu Buhari has won the 2019 presidential election, polling 15,191,847 votes  to defeat his closest rival, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar,  candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, who scored 11,262,978 votes. He defeated 73 other candidates to emerge winner. Buhari defeated his closest challenger, Atiku, by a wide magin    votes. Buhari was declared winner and returned as President-elect at about  4.30am on Wednesday by the National Chairman of the National Independent Electoral Commission, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, who is also the national returning officer for the election. To emerge winner, Buhari won the highest number of votes in Kano, Kaduna, Katsina, Jigawa, Yobe, Borno, Bauchi, Gombe, Nasarawa, Niger, Ogun, Osun, Ekiti, Lagos, Kogi, Kwara, Kebbi, Sokoto and Zamfara States. Alhaji Atiku won in 17 states and the FCT. The states won by Atiku are Adamawa, Taraba, Plateau, Oyo, Ondo, Imo,...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has won the 2019 presidential poll in Imo. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reported that the results were announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Returning Officer in Imo, Prof. Benjamin Ozurumba, on Monday. He said the PDP won in 25 local government areas to defeat its closest rival, the All Progressives Congress (APC) that won two, Oru East and Ideato South. Local government areas won by the PDP are Oguta, Isu, Nwangele, Ezinihite Mbaise, Nkwerre, Oru West, Njaba, Owerri North, Onuimo, Ohaji-Egbema, Owerri Municipal, Ahiazu Mbaise and Ngor Okpala. Others are Orlu, Owerri West, Aboh Mbaise, Ehime Mbano, Obowo, Ikeduru, Mbaitoli, Isiala Mbano, Orsu, Ihitte-Uboma, Ideato North and Okigwe. Ozurumba said that the PDP scored a total of 334,923 votes to beat the APC that polled 140,463 votes and the All Progressives Gr...

The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Bauchi State has again lost another seat in the National Assembly to the Peoples Redemption Party (PRP). While declaring the results of the Bauchi Federal Constituency late Monday night at the INEC collation centre in Bauchi, the Returning Officer for the election Ibrahim Yakubu declared the candidate of the PRP, Abdullahi Yakubu Shehu, as the winner having polled 69,088 votes, while his closest rival, Mohammed Sabo of the ruling APC, polled 53,470 votes just as the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Aminu Garu, emerged third with 43,727 votes. The Returning Officer said: “The PRP candidate, Abdullahi Yakubu Shehu, having satisfied the requirements of the law and scored the highest number of votes is hereby declared winner of the Bauchi Federal Constituency.” With this result, Bauchi State APC has now lost two seats in the House of Representatives following the declaration of Speaker of...

The All Progressives Congress (APC) polled 798,428 votes to beat the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) which scored 209,313 votes in Bauchi State in last Saturday’s presidential election. Prof. Alhassan Ghani, the State Collation officer, announced the result after collation from the 20 local government areas of the state on Tuesday in Bauchi. He said that the state had 2,453,512 registered voters, out of which, 1,075,330 were accredited for the election. Ghani added that a total of 1,061,955 votes were cast, out of which APC scored 798,428 votes and PDP scored 209,313 votes. According to the collation officer, the exercise records a total of 1,024,307 valid votes and 37,648 invalid votes. He commended the electorate, stakeholders and party agents for the peaceful elections, commitment and cooperation throughout the exercise. Meanwhile, Col. Umaru Tilde (rtd) and Alhaji Salihu Yau, agents of the APC and PDP accepted the re...

The Kano State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has rejected the presidential and National Assembly results compiled in Kano by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). The state party chairman and also the party agent at the collation centre, Rabiu Sulaiman Bichi, expressed disgust with the way figures were tampered with during collation. Bichi told reporters at the INEC headquarters in Kano that they will not accept the inflated figures of the election outcome. “We cannot accept such inflated figures and that is our stand. So we will go back and analyse the issue to know the next line of action to take. “As you can see, the presiding officers complained of lack of use of card readers during the voting exercise of the presidential and National Assembly elections in the state coupled with over-voting,” he said. Asked whether the PDP will institute a legal action over the narratives, Bichi said that they shall...

The All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate Muhammadu Buhari has polled 1,232,133 votes in Katsina, his home state, in Saturday’s presidential election. Prof. Fatima Mukhtar, the state Collation Officer, said Buhari defeated Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who got 308,056 votes. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reported that Buhari won in all the 34 local government areas of the state with a wide margin. However, the number of votes recorded by Buhari is about 100,000 fewer than the 1,345,441 he got in 2015, when he ran against former President Goodluck Jonathan. The state has a total of 3.2 million registered voters, but only 1,628,865 voters were accredited during the election, Mukhtar said. The total votes cast was 1,619,186 and 63,712 votes were rejected(NAN)

Alhaji Atiku Abubakar narrowly won the presidential election in Edo State with 7,849 votes more than his main rival, President Muhammadu Buhari. The state Collation Officer for the presidential election, Prof. Ndowa Lale, announced at the INEC headquarters in Benin that Atiku scored 275,691 votes, while Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC) scored 267,842 votes. However, Buhari beat Atiku in the number of councils won. He won in 10 while Atiku won in eight. Lale, who is the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Port Harcourt, said the total number of registered voters in state was 2,150,127, while the total number of accredited voters was 604,915. Lale noted that the number of valid votes was 560,711, while 38,517 votes were rejected. He further said the total number of votes cast was 599,228. (NAN)

Muhammadu Buhari The All Progressives Congress (APC) has won the presidential election in Bukkuyum Gummi and Talata Mafara Local Government areas in Zamfara State. The results of the three local government areas presented to the state Returning Officer, Prof. Kabiru Bala, showed that APC scored higher votes of 24,736 from Bukkuyum, 42,697 from Gummi and 44,270 from Talata Mafara. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) came second with Bukkuyum 6,615 votes, Gummi 10,792 votes and Talata Mafara 9,159 votes. Other parties in contest were the National Rescue Movement (NRM) that polled 142 votes in Bukkuyum, 151 votes in Gummi and 248 votes in Talata Mafara, while the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) had 24 votes in Bukkuyum, 20 votes in Gummi and 30 votes in Talata Mafara. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reported that all the parties in the contest accepted the results presented at the collation centre. The parties in the contest were APC, PDP, ...

Atiku Abubakar The Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has widened his margin of winning in Benue by clinching 12 of 19 Local Government Areas already declared by INEC. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the election results were declared by various Collation Officers for the local government councils in Makurdi on Monday. The results showed Atiku leading in Ukum, Opokwu, Guma, Ogbadibo, Gwer West, Buruku, Logo, Agatu, Apa, Ado, Obi and Gwer East LGAs. Atiku’s closest rival, President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC) is trailing behind with 8 local councils. The LGAs won by Buhari are Oju, Makurdi, Tarka, Ohimini, Otukpo, Ushongo and Konshisha. The local government areas yet to be declared are Vandeikya, Kwande, Gboko and Katsina-Ala. Benue North West Senatorial seat, being contested by incumbent Sen George Akume and Rep Orker Jev, was yet to be announced, leading to te...

Victor C. Ariole writes that Nigeria should get its politics right Africa is yet to present a brand on leadership and Nigeria must do that for Africa. Africa, in general, has problems in believing in elections as most of the people still see culturally or traditionally propped-up leaders as sacrosanct, while the current leading civilisation expects leaders to be those elected through the ballot boxes. In Africa ballot boxes as a means to end do not count; fabricated results do. Illiterates who are the majority in Africa could possibly not figure out when results are fabricated but they are made to come out to show that they, indeed, participated in reeling out such results. Nigerians that are supposed to be better than other African people with their human and material resources, GDP wise, seem to be failing Africa. No fewer than 80million people registered to express their choice of leadership as two heavy weights stood for the ...

It was not easy, but Nigerians braved the odds, including intimidation and threats to their life, to come out and cast their votes for their preferred candidates at the 2019 presidential/national assembly elections. It is now the turn of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to live up to its billings by announcing the results immediately as they come in so as to avoid the immense and intense pressure being allegedly mounted on them by leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to manipulate the entire process including result collation and announcement, in their favour and against the will of the people. The massive turnout of Nigerians for the polls indicates that they are ready to make a change in order to get Nigeria working again. It would be the height of callousness on the part of INEC to allow itself to be used as a tool to scuttle the will and free choice of the people. This, no doubt, is an opportunity ...

The Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) has warned that rising geopolitical tensions across the world was still an existential challenge to a stable oil market in 2019. It also noted the potential impact of sanctions and economic recession that have not completely abated, as other sources of uncertainty for the market, stating however that even though this was not within the control of oil producers, it would alongside its non-OPEC allies led by the Russian Federation, work to stabilise the market. Speaking recently in Cairo Egypt, OPEC’s Secretary General, Dr. Mohammad Barkindo, said the cartel and its allies were also going to consider instituting a new charter to firm up their bond on rebalancing fluctuations in the global oil market. Barkindo, stated that thoughts about the proposed charter rose from the success of the ‘Declaration of Cooperation’ the group initiated and signed in 2016 to rebalance the oil market which...

The Nigerian Biosafety Management Agency (NBMA) has approved the commercial release of genetically modified, pest-resistant cowpea to farmers in Nigeria. This places the country on the path to becoming the first country ever to cultivate biotech cowpea. This development adds a new crop to the global biotech basket from Africa. NBMA’s approval allows the Institute for Agricultural Research (IAR) to commercially release Pod Borer-Resistant Cowpea (PBR Cowpea)-event AAT709A, genetically improved to resist Maruca vitrata. This permit is valid until the end of 2022. Principal Scientist in Plant Biotechnology at International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Leena Tripathi, expressed delight stating, “This is indeed good news for IITA and Nigeria at large, as the first GM food crop will be available for commercialisation.” Cowpea is an important staple crop in sub-Saharan Africa, serving human consumption needs as well as being a ...

Samsung has celebrated a decade since the launch of the first Galaxy S. This is just as the global company introduced a new line of premium smartphones: Galaxy S10. With three unique devices, the Galaxy S10 line is engineered to meet the distinct needs of today’s smartphone market, so consumers can do more of what they love. Each device delivers a next-generation experience in the categories consumers care about most: ground-breaking innovations in display, camera and performance. As testament to a decade of innovations, Galaxy S10 was designed for those who want a premium smartphone with powerful performance and sets the stage for the next generation of mobile experiences. While the Galaxy S10+ takes every spec – from display, to camera, to performance – to the next level, Galaxy S10e was built for those who want all the premium essentials in a compact package on a flat screen. Announcing the the Galaxy S10 line of smartphones, Managin...