Politics
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Officials of INEC and other ad-hoc staff started arriving at their various polling units at about 8:30 this morning. The security arrangements have been 1 police official to 1 polling unit. While the streets are filled with young adults of voting age who have turned the streets and major roads into the football pitch. Accreditation […]
The president-elect, Chief Bola Tinubu cast his ballot at about 9.35 am in Polling O85 / 03 in Kaffy street area of Ikeja. Chief Tinubu who was dressed in a coffee-brown native attire and brown shoes in the company of his wife, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, and daughter, Mrs lyabo Tinubu – Ojo, arrived at the […]
By Yemisi Dada There is a heavy presence of security operatives on Ikorodu road to Ketu via Tipper Garage as gubernatorial and House of Assembly elections hold today in Lagos. Our Correspondent reports that Police officers at the old toll gate along Lagos Ibadan expressway stop and check every vehicle without election duty stickers on […]
Surulere (12 Wards) Registered Voters: 377,131 Accredited Voters: 85,675 APC: 39,002 LP: 36,923 PDP: 2,651 Mushin (14 Wards) Registered Voters: 398,385 Accredited Voters: 72,464 APC: 40,876 LP: 23,066 PDP: 3,043 Oshodi – Isolo (11 Wards) Registered Voters: 461,102 Accredited Voters: 88,623 APC: 27,871 LP: 57,020 PDP: 3,139 Somolu (12 Wards) Registered Voters: 316,752 Accredited Voters: […]
About 24 hours after the opening of polls in Saturday’s Presidential and National Assembly elections in Lagos State, no single result from the 20 Local Government Areas (LGAs) has arrived at the State Collation Centre. Prof. Adenike Oladiji, the State Collation Officer and Vice-Chancellor, Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA) stated this during the official […]
Sorting and counting of votes have begun at some polling units in the Ojuelegba, Masha, and Shitta axis of Surulere. After the exercise, the presiding officials at some of the voting units monitored informed the voters that their ballots had been recorded manually and also transmitted. In some cases, including ward 004, Ishaga road, and […]
The Minister of Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Raji Fashola, has described the ongoing voting exercise as hitch-free because of the facial recognition aspect of BVAS Fashola, a former Governor of the State accompanied by his wife Mrs. Abimbola Fashola arrived at Polling Unit 002 at State Junior Grammar School, Onitolo, off Eric Moore in […]
There is a heavy security presence at the Lagos office of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in Yaba. Men of the Nigerian Army, Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, the Police, and the Federal Fire Service are stationed outside the premises and on the street in the Alagomeji area of Yaba. The area is […]
The Speaker of the House of Representatives Mr. Femi Gbajabiamila cast his vote at some minutes past eleven at Elizabeth Fowler Primary School, Mercy Eneli street, Surulere area. Speaking to newsmen shortly after exercising his franchise, Mr. Gbajabiamila described the exercise as peaceful and hailed residents for comporting themselves orderly while exercising their franchise. The […]
As of 11 o clock this morning, INEC officials are yet to commence voting at Polling Unit 033 Ward 06 Iwerekun 1 Ward in Ibeju-lekki, Local government area of Awoyaya, Lagos. Meanwhile, eligible voters are in the queue waiting patiently to be accredited, some of the electorates who spoke to Radio Nigeria said they were […]
