ISLAMABAD (AA) – Pakistani President Arif Alvi on Friday announced elections in Punjab, the country’s largest province, on April 30. The development came after a long political impasse which saw the country’s Supreme Court ordering elections in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provinces within 90 days. “The ECP (Election C...
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AA) – Nigeria’s main opposition party on Thursday said it intends to challenge the results of the Feb. 25 presidential election in court. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) denounced the results as a “grave injustice.” PDP’s Atiku Abubakar came second in the race for president with an official vote tally of 6.9 million, [&h...
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AA) — Nigeria’s President-elect Bola Tinubu appealed for unity in the country on Wednesday after hotly contested elections that have been disputed by opposition parties. In his acceptance speech after being declared the winner of the weekend election, Tinubu said the divisions that characterized the poll should not li...
Lagos, Nigeria (AFP): President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated the declared winner of Nigeria’s presidential elections, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, saying he was the best man for the job. Tinubu, candidate of Buhari’s ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), won 8.8 million votes against 6.9 million for opposition Peoples Democratic Part...
Lagos, Nigeria (AFP): Ruling party candidate Bola Tinubu won Nigeria’s highly disputed weekend election on Wednesday, securing the former Lagos governor his life-long ambition of the presidency of Africa’s most populous democracy. With President Muhammadu Buhari stepping down after two terms, many Nigerians hoped Saturday’s v...
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AA) – Election observers from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) urged candidates in Nigeria’s election on Monday to respect the outcome of the polls. Sierra Leone’s former President Ernest Bai Koroma, who heads the observers, called on the candidates to accept the final announcement of the Feb. 25...
Lagos, Nigeria (AFP): Nigeria’s ruling party candidate Bola Tinubu took an early lead in the race for the presidency, according to initial tallies on Monday, after a tight election marked by long delays and an opposition walkout over fraud accusations. Former Lagos governor Tinubu faced main opposition party PDP’s Atiku Abubakar in...
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AA) – Nigeria’s opposition Labour Party has won Lagos state in the presidential poll, a stronghold of the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) party, election authorities announced Monday. The Labour presidential candidate, Peter Obi, scored 582,454 votes, ahead of Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the APC who got 577,606, ...
KANO, Nigeria (AA) – Tensions were rising in Nigeria as authorities slowly counted more votes on Monday after a tightly contested election in Africa’s largest democracy. Results released so far show the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) party has an early lead, but the two main opposition forces – the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and [&...
KANO, Nigeria (AA) – Nigerian authorities on Friday ordered the closure of the country’s land borders, a day ahead of presidential and general elections. Comptroller General of the Nigeria Immigration Service Isah Jere issued the directive to halt crossings with the West African nation’s neighbors Niger, Chad, Cameroon, and B...
