abducted Chibok girls Tomorrow makes it a year since more than 200 girls were kidnapped from their school in Chibok, Borno State, northeast Nigeria by Islamist group Boko Haram. While hopes are kept alive that they will one day be reunited with their families, several children are still being forced to leave their homes as attacks by the militants continue. According to a new report from UNICEF, about 800,000 children have been forced to flee their homes as the six-year-old onslaught by the militant group is now being heavily repelled by military forces and civilian self-defence groups. The report titled…
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Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State has faulted the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, for declaring the governorship election in the state inconclusive and announcing supplementary elections in some wards across the state. The governor, who spoke to journalists at the Government House, Owerri, early Monday, said the supplementary election would have been unnecessary if the electoral commission had considered the number of Permanent Voters Card distributed in the affected areas instead of the number of registered voters. The INEC Returning Officer of the State, Prof. Ibidapo Obe, announced that the election was inconclusive because the margin (79,529) between Mr.…
The Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party Board of Trustees (BoT), Sen. Walid Jibrin, has said that the party will never die in spite of its electoral misfortune in the March 28 Presidential and National Assembly elections. He made this known yesterday while speaking with journalists in his country home in Nasarawa, Nasarawa local government area of the state. While encouraging the party’s supporters not to be deterred by the defeat it suffered in the elections, the BoT scribe assured them that the party would bounce back and win all positions in future elections in the country. “I want to…
The All Progressives Congress candidate in the Akwa Ibom State governorship election, Umana O. Umama, has said that the victory of his Peoples Democratic Party counterpart, Mr. Udom Emmanuel in the April 11 poll was a coup against the people of the state. Mr. Emmanuel was declared winner of Saturday’s guber election in the state by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, after securing the highest number of votes in two-thirds of the local government areas of Akwa Ibom. According to INEC, Emmanuel scored 996,071 votes as against Umana’s 89,865. Speaking with The PUNCH via a telephone interview, Umana said…
A former Governor of Ekiti State, Otunba Niyi Adebayo, and Minister of State for Works, Mr. Dayo Adeyeye, have expressed worry over the gale of defections from the Peoples Democratic Party defecting to All Progressives Congress since the latter won the march 28 presidential election. The two, in separate interviews with journalists in Iyin Ekiti and Ise Ekiti respectively, advised the defectors to stay back in their party to build a virile opposition party in order to strengthen our democracy. Mr. Adebayo, a chieftain of the APC, said he had remained in his party, starting from its days as Alliance…
Governor of Bauchi State, Malam Isa Yuguda, on Monday said that his administration had fulfilled the promises it made to the people of the state in the last eight years. Yuguda said this in an interview with newsmen on Monday in Abuja. According to the governor, his achievements and legacies in office will speak for him after the expiration of his tenure on May 29. He commended the people of the state for the opportunity given to him to serve them as governor for eight years. “By God’s grace, I can now beat my chest to say I have fulfilled…
Gov. Abdulaziz Yari of the All Progressive Congress has been re-elected in Zamfara State. In the result declared Monday in Gusau, the Returning Officer, Abdullahi Zuru, declared Mr. Yari winner with a total vote of 716,964. His closest rival, who is also his father in-law, Mamuda Shinkafi of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), scored 201,938 votes. The All Progressives Grand Alliance candidate and National Secretary of the party, Sani Shinkafi, polled 2,385 votes to come third. The declaration of the results was earlier on Sunday marred by irate youths demanding that the PDP candidate be declared winner. They were however…
SAMUEL ORTOM (L), TERHEMEN TARZOOR A former Minister of State for Trade and Industries and candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Samuel Ortom, has won the Benue governorship election held on Saturday. Announcing the results on Monday in Makurdi, the Returning Officer for the state, Istifinus Dafwang, said Mr. Ortom polled 422,932 votes to beat seven other contestants. The results showed that Mr. Ortoms’s closest rival in the contest, Terhemen Tarzoor of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, scored 313,878 votes. The results, however, showed that the PDP would retain its dominance in the state legislature, having won 15 seats as against…
Reprieve came the way of at least 50 members of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, and ad-hoc staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Sunday, as they were released from captivity by some villagers in Assakio, Adogi and Shige area of Lafia Local Government, Nasarawa State, who held them hostage since Saturday. Spokesman for the group, Mr. Adamu Anzalu, told journalists in Lafia, the Nasarawa State capital that the corps members and INEC officials were abandoned along Ashige in Shendam Road close to Assakio, where they were held captive. According to Anzalu, they were held hostage because the…
Looks like Madonna poured a lot of saliva into Drake’s mouth when she pulled his head up to give him a kiss…because his reaction after the kiss was not flattering at all. The 56 year old singer, who has said one of her dreams is to make out with Drake, invited the 28 year old rapper on stage during her performance at Coachella yesterday and made out with him. What she didn’t see was Drake’s reaction. He looked horrified and even wiped his mouth. Guess Drake isn’t into older women. See the photos after the cut… Drake’s reaction below…looked like…
LIB has exclusively gathered that Peter Okoye, one half of the P-Square twin brothers, is currently building a multi-million naira beverage and bottling company in Lagos. Located on one acre of land somewhere on the Island, construction of the beverage and bottling company started in 2014, and it is expected to be launched before the end of this year. The company, when officially opened, will be producing bottle water and assorted fruit juice. Bayo Adetu, P-Square’s Publicist, confirmed the development to LIB when contacted. Continue… “Yes, we expect the company to be launched before this year runs out. It’s a…
Subtle drama on instagram that no one was supposed to catch but I caught it. So yesterday, ace music producer and CEO of Mavin Records, Don Jazzy posted a throwback photo of himself and Enrique Iglesias with some friends on instagram (pic on the left). There’s no big deal to the pic at first until you see what D’banj did this morning…lol. He must have seen Don Jazzy’s post because he posted the original photo which showed that he was in the photo and was cropped out by Don Jazzy in his own instagram post… D’banj captioned his own ‘Instasize’…
Paul Okoye posted some things on instagram today which he tagged #mybest40songsofp2. He said he’s bringing the behind the scenes of his best 40 songs of P-Square and the brains behind the success of each song. Is he trying to tell us something? He wrote; “P-Squares all time biggest wedding song..written by me …produced by me and performed by me…a very good example of an ever-green song..years to years to come,this song will still be bumping and I know u all love it” Continue…
National Chairman of All Progressive Congress (APC), Chief John Oyegun, on Saturday said that the gale of defections by politicians was not good for Nigeria’s political development. According to Oyegun, who spoke to newsmen in Benin shortly after casting his vote, those defecting to the winning party should rather form a formidable opposition to enrich the nation’s democracy. “Many opposition party members have defected to APC just because they lost out, that is not good for political development. “One would have advised that opposition members should stay where they are, and form a formidable opposition party,” Oyegun said. He described…
The Independent National Electoral Commission has declared Gov. Ibrahim Gaidam of All Progressives Congress winner of the Yobe governorship election. Mr. Gaidam scored 334,847 votes to defeat a former Minister of Police Affairs, Adamu Waziri of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who polled 179, 700 votes. Abubakar Njodi, the Governorship Collation Officer, who announced the results on Sunday in Damaturu said elections were conducted in all the 17 local governments. Mr. Gaidam re-contested election against Mr. Waziri, Bukar Abba of Alliance for Democracy, Muhammad Lawan of All Progressives Grand Alliance and Ali Jallaba of National Conscience Party. Mr. Njodi said the…
The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has won in 15 local government areas out of the 17 councils so far released for the governorship election by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). The All Progressives Congress (APC) has so far won in two local government areas. The remaining results are expected from the rescheduled polls on Sunday, which took place in Abua Odua, ward 1, Asari Toru ward 13, Bonny ward 13, Degema wards 11,12,13, Emohua ward 4, and Obio/Akpor wards 15 and 16. Meanwhile, the governorship candidates of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Social Democratic Party (SDP) and Dakuku…
The Ondo State chapter of All Progressives Congress, APC, has hailed the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, for declaring elections in the Ilaje constituencies inconclusive following alleged cases of irregularities during last Saturday’s election in the state. The APC Chairman in Ilaje council, Olumide Ikuopenikan, said that the election was militarized. Ikuopenikan in a statement in Akure, the Ondo State capital, said: “We received the position of INEC on the Ilaje state constituencies election held on April 11, 2015 with satisfaction. “For declaring the election inconclusive, INEC has affirmed our earlier position that the election was indeed militarized. “I commend…
The Returning Officer of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Imo State, Prof. Oye Ibidapo-Obe, has declared the 2015 governorship election in the state inconclusive. He made the declaration before journalists and agents of the various political parties that were involved in the election after the collation of results at the INEC office in Owerri, the state capital, on Sunday. The INEC returning officer said the election was declared inconclusive because the total number of votes in the areas where the election did not take place was higher than the margin between the two leading candidates – incumbent Governor…
Rivers State Governor Rotimi Amaechi has alleged that the police in the state were planning to doctor the statements of persons arrested in Tai Local Government Area of the state during Saturday’s governorship and House of Assembly elections. “Information just reaching us indicates that the Police in Rivers State want to doctor the statements of about 110 persons arrested for electoral offences and crimes in Tai Local Government of Rivers State during Saturday’s governorship and House of Assembly elections,” a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, David Iyofor, said. “The persons arrested include 75 National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, members…