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DELGA APP Chairmanship Candidate Dr. Agba Agiriye Harry Pays Courtesy Visit to the LGA CTC Chairman.

September 24, 2024Eve Afrique

••Receives Royal Blessings, Endorsement From Obuama Chiefs, Other Stakeholders, ••Assures Better Deal For Delgans The Action Peoples Party (APP) Chairmanship Candidate for the forthcoming local government elections in Degema Local Government Area of Rivers State, Dr. Agiriye Agba Harry, Monday, paid a courtesy visit to the Caretaker Committee (CTC) Chairman of the LGA, Hon. Anthony […]

PRESIDENT TINUBU CONGRATULATES GOVERNORS HOPE UZODINMA, DOUYE DIRI, AND GOVERNOR-ELECT USMAN ODODO ON ELECTION VICTORY

November 15, 2023Eve Afrique

President Bola Tinubu congratulates Governor Hope Uzodinma of Imo State, Governor Douye Diri of Bayelsa State, and Governor-elect Usman Ododo of Kogi State, on their victory in the November 11 governorship elections. The President commends the electorate in Imo, Kogi, and Bayelsa for their participation in the electoral process, affirming the resilience of democratic institutions […]

EFCC Arrests 14 Suspected Vote Buyers in Bayelsa, Imo, Kogi States

November 13, 2023Eve Afrique

Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Saturday arrested 14 (Fourteen) suspected vote buyers in Otueke, Adawari playgrounds in Bayelsa State and at various polling units in Imo and Kogi States. The Commission disclosed this in a statement on Sunday. It said the suspects were arrested in an intelligence-driven operations that commenced […]

Sylva Hails Appeal Court Judgment Returning Him As APC Candidate

November 3, 2023Eve Afrique

Timipre Sylva has hailed the Court of Appeal judgment that reinstated him as the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the Bayelsa poll November 11. A High Court had nullified Sylva’s candidature on the grounds that Sylva having been sworn in twice and ruled for five years as governor of Bayelsa would […]

Nigeria Is The Bigger Loser After Supreme Court Ruling In Favour Of Tinubu, Not Me –Atiku

November 3, 2023Eve Afrique

The Former vice president and presidential candidate of PDP in the 2023 election, Atiku Abubakar, stated this on Monday in Abuja at a World Press Conference on the Presidential Election Petition Judgement by the Supreme Court. Press statement reads, “Someone asked me what I would do if I lost my election petition appeal at the […]

Court Sacks Bayelsa APC Governorship Candidate, Sylva

October 13, 2023Eve Afrique

Justice Donatus Okorowo of the Federal High Court, Abuja, in a judgement delivered on Monday, disqualified Chief Timipre Sylva, the Bayelsa State All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate in the November 11 governorship election. Justice Okorowo ruled that Sylva having been sworn in twice and ruled for five years as governor of Bayelsa would breach the […]

Bayelsa Gubernatorial Poll: “it is a Contest of Votes and not of guns” Gov Diri tells Politicians

July 30, 2023July 30, 2023Eve Afrique

By Suoyo Ekubo Governor of Bayelsa State, Senator Douye Diri, has asked politicians in the state not to prepare for violence in the November 11 governorship election, saying the poll is about votes and not guns. Governor Diri stating this during the 25th State Security Council meeting in Government House, Yenagoa, on Thursday. In a […]

Drama as LP factions clash at election tribunal

May 17, 2023Eve Afrique

By Suoyo Ekubo There was a chaotic scene that played out at the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal on Wednesday when officials of the two factions of Labour Party (LP) clashed. The Daily Post reports that the court presided over by Justice Haruna Tsammani refused to recognise any representative of the Labour Party except the 1st […]

Presidential election tribunal holds hearing today 8th May 2023

May 8, 2023Eve Afrique

By Suoyo Ekubo The Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal Abuja will today begin pre-hearing in the petitions challenging the outcome of the February 25 presidential election, Punch report. The Independent National Electoral Commission declared that Bola Tinubu of the ruling All Progressives Congress polled 8,794,726 votes to win the election. The commission declared that Atiku came […]

Rivers Police Arrest Hon Chinyere Igwe For Money Laundering

February 25, 2023Eve Afrique

by Mitchelle Uzorka Police Officers from Rivers State Command deployed to INEC Headquarters Aba Road today 24/2/2023 at about 0245hrs, while on stop and search, arrested one Hon Chinyere Igwe, member House of Representatives representing Port Harcourt II Federal Constituency with a cash sum of 498,100 USD inside a bag in his car. Also recovered […]