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Saraki to Edo voters: Don’t get carried away, protect your votes

Bukola Saraki, ex-senate president, has asked voters in Edo state to protect their votes. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has begun collating results of the Edo state governorship...

NDLEA: Drug test before marriage not for ladies only

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) says it was misquoted regarding the conduct of drug tests for intending couples. Mohammed Mustapha Abdalla, NDLEA chairman, was quoted to have...

LIVE: Edo guber election results trickling in

Obaseki scores zero at Oshiomhole’s polling unit

Godwin Obaseki, incumbent governor of Edo state and governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP), failed to secure any vote at the polling unit of Adams Oshiomhole, his estrange...

Edo poll: INEC official who ‘connived with politicians’ arrested at polling unit

The police on Saturday arrested an ad-hoc official of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Edo state for conniving with politicians to manipulate ballot papers.  The official, a...

EXTRA: ‘I’ll slap anyone who asks me to settle a dispute’ — ‘hungry’ soldier charges at Edo voters

One of the soldiers drafted to Akoko-Edo council area of Edo state for the governorship election has threatened to deal with anyone who approaches him to settle a dispute....

Ize-Iyamu: I’ll monitor the election from Benin because network reception in my village is poor

Osagie Ize-Iyamu, governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Edo state, says he will monitor the election process from Benin city, the state capital, due to poor...

Three-storey school building collapses in Lagos

A three-storey building housing Excel College, located at 15, Ansarudeen street, Ile-Epo bus stop, Ejigbo area of Lagos, collapsed on Saturday morning. Femi Oke-Osanyintolu, director-general of the Lagos State...