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President Goodluck Jonathan, candidate of the Peoples Democratic Perty, PDP, won in all the 16 local government areas of Ekiti State in Saturday’s presidential election The PDP candidates equally cleared all the three senatorial seats and 6 House of Representatives seats in the state Briefing newsmen at the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) office, Ado Ekiti, the Chief Returning Officer for the Presidential election for Ekiti State and Vice-Chancellor of Federal University of Technology,(FUTA), Akure, Prof. Biyi Daramola  said the president and other PDP candidates won in all the 16 local government areas of the state According to Daramola, President Jonathan scored a total of 176,474 votes to defeat his close opponent, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressive Congress,(APC) who polled 120,332 votes. He thanked the electorates for conducting themselves peacefully during the election exercise.

GNR – The Nigeria Police has announced the death of Alhaji Muhammad Hurdi, the Katsina State commissioner of police. The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), DSP Aminu Sadiq announced the demise of Hurdi in a statement issued to newsmen on Sunday in Katsina. Sadiq said that Hurdi died on March 27, after a protracted illness. The late commissioner joined the service in 1988 as ASP cadet officer and rose through the ranks to the rank of a commissioner. The PPRO said that Hurdi would be remembered as a patriotic and dedicated officer who gave his best in the service of his fatherland. The Deputy Commissioner of police, Mr Bala Zama Senche, prayed to God to grant the deceased eternal rest and gave the family fortitude to bear the lost.

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, is in an early lead in the 2015 presidential elections which held nationwide on Saturday, March 28, 2015 and continued on Sunday in some parts of the country, Radio Nigeria has said. The PDP candidate, President Goodluck Jonathan is winning by a land The Presidential aspirations of the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Muhammadu Buhari may be cut short as the unofficial figures coming in suggests that he has failed to garner 25% of the votes in all of the following states: 1. Imo 2. Abia 3. Anambra 4. Ebonyi 5. Rivers 6. Bayelsa 7. Delta 8. Benue 9. Enugu 10. Cross Rivers 11. Akwa Ibom 12. Edo. If Buhari fails to make 25% in 2 more states, even if he secures the highest votes, he cannot win the election. According to law, the candidate with the most votes is declared the winner in the first round, as long as he gains at least 25% of the votes in two-thirds of Nigeria’s 36 states. The ruling PDP is l...

-/ Some unknown assailants have on Saturday, March 28, 2015 attacked some electoral officials carrying materials for the Presidential and National Assemblies Elections leaving one person dead at Ubima-Ozuaha road in Ikwerre LGA of Rivers State. A gun duel ensued between the police and the miscreants who intercepted the vehicles of the electoral officials and opened fire on them. In a related development, a protest has started in Omerelu community in the same LGA following the fact that the INEC has not provided result sheet for the election up until the time of this report. A source in the community disclosed that some angry youths in the area have set some units ablaze. Meanwhile, some communities already begun the voting process while awaiting the arrival of the result sheets.

Professor Attahiru Jega, INEC Chairman (left) The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has extended voting during the Presidential and National Elections to Sunday, May 29, 2015 in some problem polling unit. It directed all Resident Electoral Commissioners in the country to conduct election on Sunday in areas where there were hitches with card readers accrediting voters. This morning, President Goodluck Jonathan and his wife, Dame Patience Jonathan were not accredited using the card reader because 4 different machines failed to recognise their PVCs. The first couple left the polling unit and later returned to be manually accredited. It is still unclear what went wrong at the polling unit in the President’s home town of Otuoke, Bayelsa State. The Chairman of INEC Committee on Information and Voters Education, Chris Iyimoga, has addressed the media at the Media Centre of the National Collation Centre, Abuja, saying with some hitches in some parts of the c...

Aliko Dangote, President and Chief Executive of Nigeria's Dangote Group speaks during the final session of the World Economic Forum on Africa meeting in Cape Town June 6, 2008. (Photo Credit: REUTERS/Mike Hutchings) Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote has joined a host of other Nigerians to cast their votes to determine the next president of Nigeria. Dangote is the President and Chief Executive of Nigeria’s Dangote Group. He was spotted at his polling center being attended to by the officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) while other electorates waited patiently to also vote for their desired candidates.

GNR:A woman has been rushed to the hospital after one of her breast implants exploded when she accidentally lost her grip and fell off the pole during a dance. 28-year-old Dioshaily Rosfer Canales Gil widely known as Diosa Canales, from the northern Venezuelan state of Anzoategui who is also a model landed on the floor with her chest leading to the very painful accident. 28-year-old Dioshaily Rosfer Canales Gil widely known as Diosa Canales, from the northern Venezuelan state of Anzoategui had one of her breast implants explode after she landed on the floor with her chest. (Photo Credit: Euro News) An emergency surgery was conducted on her after she was rushed to the hospital in South America. She reassured her fans that she was in stable condition and posted some of the photos she took at the hospital according to Metro UK. 28-year-old Dioshaily Rosfer Canales Gil widely known as Diosa Canales, from the northern Venezuelan state of Anzoategui had one of her bre...