The Trump campaign said it filed lawsuits Wednesday in Pennsylvania and Michigan, laying the groundwork for contesting the outcome in undecided battleground states. Suits in both states are demanding better access for campaign observers to locations where ballots are being processed and counted, the campaign said. The campaign also is seeking to intervene in a
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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), says it will begin another round of voter registration in the first quarter of 2021.INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, told newsmen in Abuja on Wednesday after appearing before the Senate Committee on INEC to defend the Commission’s 2021 budget. He said the voter registration exercise will run till six
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Oye Owolewa and Esther Agbaje, Americans with Nigerian descent, have emerged victorious in the US elections. While Agbaje won a house of reps seat in Minnesota, Owolewa was declared winner of the shadow election in the District of Columbia (DC). During elections, voters of the District of Columbia elect a shadow representative who is recognised
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The Presidential Task Force (PTF) on Covid-19, on Tuesday said 34 states across the country had received N50 billion each from the federal government to support the fight against the coronavirus pandemic, explaining that the federal government has laid out procedures on how such funds should be spent., The National Coordinator of the Presidential Task
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Leaders of the Southsouth, Southwest, Southeast and Middle Belt represented by the Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF), Afenifere, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, and Middle Belt Forum (MBF), on Wednesday held an emergency meeting in Abuja. The forum rose in defence to warn that it will no longer allow a section of the country to play any supremacist
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A former college football coach, Tommy Tuberville, is taking his playbook to Washington, D.C. The 65-year-old Republican challenger and political newcomer won his U.S. Senate race Tuesday in Alabama against Democratic incumbent Doug Jones. Tuberville, who has been out of coaching since 2016, has said he was inspired to enter politics by Donald Trump’s 2016
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Olivia Idibia, the second daughter of Tuface Idibia and wife Annie Idibia, has undergone a successful surgery in Dubai. Annie made this revelation via her Instagram Stories. She said she wasn’t able to sleep in 48 hours due to the surgery nevertheless her 6-year-old daughter has been “brave” and “strong” and the surgery was a
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The Federal Government on Tuesday explained why it decided to approach the Brazil for a $1.2bn external loan request to finance agricultural programmes in the 2021 budget. A request for approval has also been transmitted to the National Assembly, the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, who appeared before the House of
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The family of Ibrahim Momodu, an undergraduate of the University of Benin, allegedly killed on May 27, 2013, has petitioned the Edo Judicial Panel of Inquiry on extra-judicial killings by police, calling for justice. In the petition dated October 27, filed by Counsel for the family, Mr Jefferson Uwoghiren, the petitioners urged the panel to
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A member of of the Feminist Coalition, Modupe Odele, has said the Nigerian Immigration Service, NIS, seized her passport and stopped her from travelling out of the country, The Feminist Coalition is the promoter of the #EndSARS protest, which raised about N147 million for the cause. Odele, a lawyer was one of the active players
Read moreDonald Trump has declared the US election a “major fraud” and says he will ask the Supreme Court to stop any more votes being counted. President of the United States of America, Donald Trump on Wednesday claimed he had won the US election as millions of votes remained uncounted. Alleging fraud, he announced that he
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Argentine football Diego Maradona underwent successful brain surgery for a blood clot in a specialist private clinic in Buenos Aires on Tuesday, his doctor said. “We managed to successfully remove the clot. Diego coped well with the surgery,” Leopoldo Luque said at the icon’s private clinic in the capital Buenos Aires. “It’s under control, there’s
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THE 36 state governors under the aegis of Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) will during the 21st teleconference scheduled for today review the internal security situation in the country and the status of the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), whose activities in some parts of the country led to the recent nationwide demonstrations. The Head, Media
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Democratic Presidential Candidate Joe Biden is leading in both electoral and popular votes as votes are being counted across the U.S. in the 2020 elections held Tuesday, November 3, 2020. As at 5:30 a.m. Nigerian Time on Wednesday, Biden had won 209 electoral votes and 55,618,102 popular votes while incumbent President Donald Trump of the
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River State Government has said that 50 AK-47 rifles belonging to the Nigeria Army was carted away by suspected members of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, during the incident that claimed 6 soldiers. The Rivers State Commissioner of Information and Communications, Paulinus Nsirim, at the Government House, Port Harcourt on Tuesday, stressed that the
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