By  Sharon Osaji The 2023 general election kicks off in a matter of hours with the presidential and National Assembly elections. Eligible Nigerians from across the country will troop out en masse with their Permanent Voter Cards as their weapon to a new set of elect leaders who will preside over ...

By  Damilola Olufemi The Independent National Electoral Commission has advised Nigerians to vote for the candidate of their choice in today’s general elections, rather than staying at home and praying. The Head of Voter Education and Publicity Department of the commission, Federal Capital ...

Lagos, Kano, and Kaduna among other states will determine the presidential candidate that would succeed President Muhammadu Buhari on May 29, judging from the number of Nigerians who have collected their PVCs to vote, according to statistics released by the Independent National Electoral ...

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC said voters are prohibited from going into the voting cubicle with their phones. The Chairman of INEC, Mahmood Yakubu, disclosed this while addressing the maiden briefing in Abuja on Thursday. He, however, said he is hopeful that the vices ...

By Jide Ajani This report serves as a guide to Nigerians on the steps to be taken at the polling unit on election day, culminating in voting and declaration of results. The Bimodal Voter Accreditation System, BVAS, is expected to help reduce the cases of manual manipulation of figures. ...

A former federal lawmaker, Shehu Sani has revealed what happened during worship at a mosque on Friday It is a general belief in Nigeria that Imams try to convince their congregants to vote a particular candidate on the eve of crucial elections. Nigeria holds its presidential and National ...

"HAPPY NEW YEAR!” was the joyful salutation that ushered in the new year on January 1, 2023. Nigeria joined the rest of the world to utter the common phrase that people used to congratulate one another for witnessing a new year while waving the old year “goodbye”. Oh! what a wonderful night it was ...

The Labour Party, LP, in Ondo State has raised an alarm over the omission of its logo on the ballot papers dispatched to the state. This comes barely 24 hours before the presidential and National Assembly elections scheduled this Saturday. Ondo State LP state secretary, Agbaje Abiodun, ...

A former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode has disclosed what awaits the presidential candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar, Peter Obi of Labour Party, LP, and his running mate, Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed if Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress, APC, wins Saturday’s ...

By  Gift Habib The Independent National Electoral Commission, on Thursday, released the number of collected and uncollected Permanent Voter Cards ahead of the forthcoming elections. PVC collection ended on February 5,  after the commission extended the process twice. A total of 87,209,007 ...

Twenty-four hours to the Presidential election, some famous pastors and prophets in Nigeria have kept sealed lips. DAILY POST reports that a total of 93.5 million Nigerians who registered to vote in the coming election are expected to choose from 18 candidates on Saturday, February 25, ...

The United States President, Joe Biden, on Thursday, told Nigerians to be patient and peaceful while election officers count their votes on election day. In a statement by the United States Diplomatic Mission to Nigeria, Biden commended political parties and presidential candidates for signing the ...

The Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, yesterday raised the alarm over alleged plans by those he termed elements in the All Progressives Congress (APC) to foment violence in some states in order to force the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) ...

The Labour Party, LP, has slammed the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, for omitting the party’s logo on Lagos State ballot papers for the Saturday election. Recall that INEC had on Wednesday taken delivery of sensitive materials for the Presidential and National Assembly ...

As the race for who represents Anambra South Senatorial zone continues to rage in Anambra State, the candidate of the Young Peoples Party, YPP, Senator Ifeanyi Ubah has crashed the price of fuel in the zone. Ubah is up against the candidates of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA ...

All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential candidate Bola Tinubu has given a hint of how he will fight corruption if elected. Tinubu is vying for the presidency against Peter Obi of the Labour Party, LP; Atiku Abubakar, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP; Rabiu Kwankwaso, New Nigeria Peoples Party, ...

In the next 48 hours, Nigerians will be heading to the polls for the 2023 general elections to elect leaders in various capacities across the country. Against this background, it’s critical that the electorate get to intimately understand the laws and what constitutes as electoral offences and ...

Chairman of Emuoha Local Government Area, Chidi Llyod and Chief of staff to Governor Nyesom Wike; Emeka Woke yesterday in Ogbakiri for a grassroot sensitization rally. Spot Asiwaju’s logo on his cap. https://twitter.com/topboychriss/status/1628520404720529411?s=46&t=MOrxrki5VDraST8rL0yyiw

A 104-year-old woman, High Chief Lolo Iyom Josephine Ezeanyaeche has declared her support for the Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi and his running mate, Datti Baba-Ahmed. According to her, Obi and Datti have the capacity to make Nigeria an investment hub. Ezeanyaeche, ...

The Labour Party senatorial candidate for Enugu East Senatorial District, Prof Oyibo Chukwu has been reportedly murdered. This is coming about three days to the Presidential and National Assembly elections. DAILY POST learnt that he was set ablaze alongside other party members late Wednesday ...

Two hunters, whose names have not been ascertained, have discovered a bag full of Permanent Voter Cards, PVCs, in a forest in Nnewi, Anambra State. This is coming just four days to the all-important general election in Nigeria. The hunters saw the bag containing the PVCs in a bush in Akamili, a ...

Adams Oshiomhole, a former National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, has kicked against President Muhammadu Buhari’s decision on the naira redesign policy. Oshiomhole, who said Buhari is on his own following his recent comment on the naira redesign policy last Thursday, also ...

The Oyo State chapter of Social Democratic Party (SDP) has raised an alarm that the state governor, Seyi Makinde was the one behind the cancellation of its rally in the state. The party made this declaration while addressing a press conference on Tuesday. Some of the leaders of the party who ...

With about three days to the presidential election, there are indications that President Muhammadu Buhari is losing grip of the All Progressives Congress, APC, governors and the National Working Committee, NWC, of the party, a situation that might affect it (APC) during the upcoming elections, ...

All Progressives Congress, APC, chieftain, Chukwuemeka Eze has faulted Governor Nyesom Wike’s camp over allegations against Rotimi Amaechi ahead of the presidential election. Eze said the accusation that the former Minister of Transport was hobnobbing with the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, ...

The Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki has charged voters across Nigeria not to vote for the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu, in the February 25 presidential election. Speaking at the Edo PDP presidential campaign grand finale on Tuesday, at Uwa Primary ...

Former Kaduna South Senator, Shehu Sani, said vote buyers have resorted to another method to buy votes ahead Saturday’s presidential and national assembly elections. According to him, those whose plan is to induce voters with money are now collecting the account details of prospective ‘vote ...

A senior advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Femi Falana, has said there’s no guarantee that Nigeria is prepared for the general election. Falana stated this while appearing on Arise TV programme on Tuesday. The scarcity of naira notes following the redesign of he N200, N500, and N1000 notes, coupled ...

Prophet Bisi Olujobi says he foresees victory for the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential candidate Bola Tinubu. The General Overseer of Wisdom Church of Christ International in Ketu, Lagos said this in a statement on Tuesday. Olujobi said despite the “confusion, intrigues, suspense, ...

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, has disclosed that his intimate relationship with National Assembly members when he was Nigeria’s vice-president, stopped former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s third-term bid. He said the relationship enabled him and some ...

By Victoria Ojeme The United States Embassy in Nigeria has alerted its citizens in the country on possible protests and restricted movements on February 25 and March 11, being the days for presidential/National Assembly as well as governorship/State Assembly elections. In a notice on its ...

With some of their rallies looking like comic scenes from soaps on Africa Magic Yoruba or Africa Magic Hausa or Africa Magic Showcase, the front-running presidential candidates (All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu; the Labour Party, LP, Peter Obi; the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, Rabiu ...

By Davies Iheamnachor, PORT HARCOURT The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has stated that the 2023 elections would hold without bags of money at the polling units, adding that the same would be witnessed during Saturday’s Presidential and National Assembly polls. INEC also ...

Over 100 clerics and prophets in Rivers State have declared support for the Presidential Candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Ahmed Tinubu and his running mate, Kashim Shettima. The religious leaders under the aegis of Rivers Pastors Unite for Tinubu said this after a meeting in Port ...

Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has again said that he has no intention or plan to decamp to the All Progressives Congress, APC. This is despite his stance on zoning the presidency to the South, describing the insinuations that he is dumping the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for the APC as ...

Residents of Ekiti State are waiting with bated breath for the Presidential and National Assembly elections slated for Saturday, with the polls forming the major talking points among the populace. As the February 25 “judgement day” approaches, there is anxiety in the state because of its ...

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar, has disclosed how he stopped former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s third term bid. He disclosed this at an event with the party’s National Assembly candidates on Sunday night in Abuja. According to Atiku: “During ...

A few days to the February 25th presidential election, Ohanaeze Ndigbo has warned that the Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate, Peter Obi must not be denied his victory if he wins Saturday’s election. Ohanaeze’s Secretary-General, Okechukwu Isiguzoro, warned that any attempt to subvert ...

Kulen Allah Cattle Rearers Association of Nigeria, KACRAN, has rejected the idea by some presidential candidates to recruit one million security operatives as a way of addressing the prevailing security challenges in the country. The position of the Association was made known in a statement ...

The Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has granted an order restraining the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, from engaging, using, or further dealing with the Chairman of the Lagos Parks and Garages, Musiliu Akinsanya, better known as MC Oluomo, in the distribution of election ...

The Afenifere National Youth Council has vowed to support the presidential candidate of Labour Party, Peter Obi, to become the President in the February 25 election. The National President of the council, Eniola Ojajuni, on Sunday, said this in Lagos. Ojajuni disclosed that Obi had support of the ...

The Lagos State Government has provided alternative routes ahead of the presidential mega rally of the All Progressives Congress slated for Tuesday in the state. In a statement signed by the General Manager of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, Bolaji Areagba, on Sunday, the government ...

In a last-ditch effort to resolve the lingering cash crisis that has thrown the entire country into turmoil, governors elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress on Sunday met with the party leadership at the APC National Secretariat in Abuja. This was as the chief executive officers ...

Nobel laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka, has disowned a statement on social media linking him to the endorsement of the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu. The social media post also purportedly indicated that the elder statesman described the Peoples Democratic Party’s ...

Deji Elumoye, Chuks Okocha, Onyebuchi Ezigbo, Emmanuel Addeh in Abuja and Segun Awofadeji in Gombe Contrary to a recent comment by the Minister of State, Labour and Employment, Mr. Festus Keyamo in which he had faulted President Muhammadu Buhari’s directive that the old N200 be recirculated ...

The gubernatorial candidate of Social Democratic Party, SDP, in Oyo state, Mr. Michael Folorunso Lana has announced that he is not interested in stepping down for Governor Seyi Makinde. Lana, a former commissioner for justice and Attorney General in the state, made this disclosure on Sunday. ...

The presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, yesterday, called on Nigerians not to elect his All Progressives Congress (APC) counterpart, Bola Tinubu, arguing that doing so would mean a transition from frying pan into fire. Atiku said this in a statement by his ...

Apostle Johnson of Omega Fire Ministries has vowed to vote for the Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate, Peter Obi, during Saturday’s election. Suleman spoke while delivering a sermon on Sunday in his church in Auchi, Edo State. He disclosed that all members of his family and associate ...