Author: Adejuyigbe Francis

Ekiti Governor, Mr Biodun Oyebanji has asked people of the state to expect more infrastructural developments. The Governor also urged the people to join hands with the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led administration in the country, saying the move would further enhance infrastructural development across the country. Governor Oyebanji, spoke in his office in Ado-Ekiti yesterday after APC supporters, transport unions and many groups came to felicitate with him on the victory of APC Presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Among different groups and associations who came to felicitate with the governor are, drivers’ unions, tricycle and Okada riders, artisans, members…

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Wednesday presided over the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting at the State House, Abuja. This week’s FEC meeting is the first after the Presidential elections which saw the emergence of the All Progressives Congress Bola Tinubu as President-Elect. Present are the Secretary to Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha; the Head of Civil Service of the Federation, Dr Folashade Yemi-Esan; National Security Adviser, Babagana Monguno; the President’s Chief of Staff Prof. Ibrahim Gambari and Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu. Ministers who are attending include the Ministers of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster…

Just Fontaine, the all-time top scorer in a single World Cup finals with 13 goals, has died at the age of 89, his family told AFP on Wednesday. Fontaine achieved the record in the 1958 finals in Sweden where France reached the semi-finals for the first time in their history, losing to Pele’s Brazil. Part of a wonderful attacking trident at that World Cup alongside Roger Piantoni and Raymond Kopa, Fontaine might never have gone to Sweden at all. Only injuries to fellow forwards Thadee Cisowski and his Reims teammate Rene Bliard saw him make the squad and then the…

The police in Kaduna State have announced a ban on celebrations or rallies by supporters of political parties in the just concluded presidential and National Assembly elections. The ban was contained in a statement on Wednesday, in Kaduna, by DSP Mohammed Jalige, the Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, of the command. ”All forms of celebrations and rallies by political party supporters for or against winners/losers of the just concluded Presidential and National Assembly elections has been banned in the state. ”Any deliberate act to violate the ban or cause breakdown of law and order under whatever guise would not be…

Peter Ayodele Fayose, a former Governor of Ekiti State, has called for the resignation of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, National Chairman, Iyorchia Ayu, due to his incapacity to take the party to the next level. Fayose stated this shortly after he congratulated the President-elect of Nigeria, Bola Tinubu, on his victory. Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, had on Wednesday morning declared APC’s Tinubu as the winner of the 2023 presidential election. Tinubu defeated the PDP’s Atiku Abubakar and Labour Party’s Peter Obi to emerge as the winner of last Saturday’s presidential election. In…

Manchester City saw off plucky Bristol City to reach the quarter-finals of the FA Cup with a 3-0 victory at Ashton Gate. Phil Foden scored twice and Kevin De Bruyne added late gloss as the six-time FA Cup winners ended Bristol City’s unbeaten 12-game run before a capacity crowd in the West Country. The scoreline was quite harsh on the hosts, who fell behind to Foden’s seventh-minute strike and remained very much in the contest well into the final quarter. But Foden’s deflected strike 16 minutes from time and a fine De Bruyne finish ensured the visitors’ place in the…

Blackburn stunned Leicester to reach the FA Cup quarter-finals. Tyrhys Dolan and Sammie Szmodics cashed in on awful defending to clinch a 2-1 win and send Rovers into the last eight for the first time since 2015. Jon Dahl Tomasson’s side upset the 2021 winners, despite Kelechi Iheanacho pulling a goal back. Brendan Rodgers celebrated four years in charge at the King Power Stadium on Sunday and this defeat marked his 200th game. No-one can dispute the progress in his first two years, which culminated in the first FA Cup triumph in the club’s history, but this season in particular…

Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission INEC, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, has said that the president-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the vice president-elect will get their Certificates of Return to day, Wednesday by 3pm. He made the disclosure the moment he declared Tinubu the president-elect in the 2023 presidential election. Making the returns for the elections, Prof. Yakubu said; “I Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, hereby certify that I am the Returning Officer for the 2023 Presidential Election held on 25th February, 2023. “That Tinubu, Bola Ahmed of the APC having satisfied the requirements of the law is hereby declared the winner and is…

President-elect, Bola Tinubu on Wednesday assured Nigerians of good governance and dividend of democracy under his administration. The All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential candidate delivered an acceptance speech after he was declared winner. Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof Mahmood Yakubu made the announcement in Abuja four days after the election. “I understand your pains, your yearnings for good governance, a functional economy and a safe nation that protects you and your future,” Tinubu told the youths. The APC co-founder said he was aware that for many of them, Nigeria has become a place of abiding challenges…

The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Ahmed Tinubu has been declared winner of the 2023 presidential election. According to the results read out by the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Mahmood Yakubu, Tinubu polled a total of 8,794,726 to defeat his closest rivals and candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi of the Labour Party, LP who scored 6,984, 520 and 6,101,533 respectively. Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New Nigerian Peoples Party, NNPP, scored 1,496,687, while the votes of the political parties put together is 666,298. The former Lagos…

The All Progressives Congress Campaign Council has called on the presidential candidates of Labour Party, Peter Obi and the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, to accept defeat by calling to congratulate the APC flag bearer, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. The charge was made by the PCC Special Adviser on Media and Strategic Communications, Dele Alake, at a world press conference held in Abuja to address the calls for the Independent National Electoral Commission results to cancel the election. The development followed the demand by the PDP, LP and the African Democratic Congress for the INEC National Chairman, Prof Mahmood Yakubu, to…

The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, has been declared the winner of the presidential election in Ebonyi State. Mr Obi polled over 75 per cent of the votes cast in the southeastern state. None of the other candidates polled up to 25 per cent of the votes cast in the state. The LP candidate garnered a total of 259,738 votes to defeat Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) who got 42,402 votes. Atiku Abubakar of the PDP polled 13,503 votes to come third in the election. The results were announced Tuesday at the State…