Polling stations across the United Kingdom are opened on Thursday morning, with opinion polls suggesting the centre-left Labour party on course to secure a big majority. Labour is expected to secure majority in the House of Commons and form a new government, after 14 years in opposition. Millions...
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Former Conservative British prime minister Boris Johnson has lent his support to the incumbent prime minister, Rishi Sunak, on the campaign trail. This is coming as pollsters forecast their party could “win a lower share of the vote than at any past general election.” At a rally on...
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has insisted that predictions of a Conservative defeat are not going to stop him after the likelihood of his return to Downing Street. He said this was put at less than “lightning striking twice in the same place” by a polling expert. He...
President Joe Biden’s allies scrambled on Friday to contain the fallout from his faltering performance at the first 2024 U.S. presidential debate after he struggled to stem a barrage of attacks and false claims from his Republican rival Donald Trump. The Biden campaign had hoped that a strong...
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu had to cut short his Eid-el-Kabir celebrations in Lagos as an international duty beckoned. His South African counterpart, Cyril Ramaphosa, had sent a special invitation to him to attend his inauguration, following the election and successful coalition talks that ushered Ramaphosa into office for a...
By CHRISTIANA LOT, Jos – Yiaga Africa has called for credible and transparent local government elections in Plateau State, emphasizing the importance of punctuality, integrity, and independence in the electoral process. The organization urged the State Independent Electoral Commission (SIEC) to ensure that the election results truly reflect...
Yobe State Governor, Mai Mala Bun has said that his stance has shown he was not opposed to the idea on local government autonomy across the country. Buni disclosed this after casting his vote in the local government election at his polling unit in Buni Gari on Saturday....
South Africa’s governing African National Congress lost its 30-year-old outright majority in this week’s election, winning only 159 seats in the 400-seat parliament, official results showed Sunday. President Cyril Ramaphosa and the leaders of most of the rival parties attended the announcement, but in a sign he intends...
Mr Bright Ngene of the Labour Party (LP) has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to send a new team to conduct the June 8 rerun election for the Enugu South Urban Constituency. Ngene, who was the LP candidate in the 2023 General Election said he...
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced that the country will hold a general election on July 4. “I spoke with His Majesty the King to request the dissolution of parliament. The king has granted this request and we will have a general election on July 4,” Sunak said...
U.S. President Joe Biden has accused his predecessor and likely election opponent Donald Trump of using Nazi rhetoric following the publication of a video referencing a “unified Reich.’’ Trump is using “Hitler’s language’’. That’s not America’s, Biden said in a campaign video released. In the short clip, the...
South Africa’s highest Court on Monday ruled that former President Jacob Zuma cannot stand as a candidate in next week’s general election. The Constitutional Court ruled that Zuma’s sentence of more than 12 months in prison has disqualified him and made him ineligible to stand. His former party,...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Bola Tinubu has extended his warm congratulations to the President-Elect of the Republic of Chad, Mahamat Déby, on his election victory. President Tinubu in a statement on by his spokesman, Mr Ajuri Ngelale, affirmed that the successful conduct of elections in...
Yiaga Africa, a civil society organisation has come out with a report that showed that out of the 93.47 million citizens that registered for the 2023 General Elections, only 24.9 million voted, amounting to 26.72 per cent. The report was put together by the organisation to identify key...
Chad will hold presidential elections on Monday, making it the first in a string of coup-hit states across Central and West Africa to use the ballot box to try to emerge from years of military rule. Opposition groups have already cried foul. The candidate widely expected to win...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has won the chairmanship seats in all the 33 local governments in Oyo State following Saturday’s council elections. Chairman of Oyo State Independent Electoral Commission (OYSIEC), Isiaka Olagunju, announced the results at a news conference at the commission’s headquarters in Ibadan on Sunday....
Mr Adekunle Ajayi on Saturday emerged as the governorship candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC) for the Nov. 16 election in Ondo State. Ajayi became victorious through affirmation by all 35 delegates of the party from the 18 local government areas of the state. The consensus mode...
Mr Oluwatosin Ayeni has emerged as the candidate of the New Nigeria People’s Party( NNPP) for the Nov. 16 governorship election in Ondo State. The Chairman of the 2024 NNPP Governorship Primary Election Committee in Ondo State, Alhaji Yusuf Galambi, said a total of 113 delegates were accredited for...
A former deputy governor of Ondo State, Mr Agboola Ajayi, has emerged the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the Nov. 16 poll in the state. Ajayi, one of the seven aspirants that contested for the ticket, polled 264 votes and his closest co-contender, Mr...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in the Sept. 21 governorship election, Dr Asue Ighodalo, has advised the party to close ranks and strategise to permanently defeat Nigeria’s development nemesis. Ighodalo gave the advice at a meeting hosted by former Minister for Solid Minerals, Sen. Odion Ugbesia, leaders...