Tribune Newspaper Headlines Today Sunday 10th March 2019
Tribune Newspaper Headlines Today and news Dailies Update on current affairs happening now in Nigeria today 10/03/19
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target=_blank>Osun Assembly election: Oyetola says APC will get absolute majority as exercise records low turnout
There was low turn out of voters in Osun on Saturday as eligible voters filed out at various polling units across the state to elect lawmakers during the election into State House of Assembly. Monitoring the election in the communities of Osun Central, Osun East and Osun West senatorial districts, Tribune Online observed that there
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target=_blank>Osun Assembly election: Omisore votes after two-hour delay by soldiers
Meanwhile, there was mild drama in Ile-Ife when some armed soldiers stopped the former deputy governor Osun State, Senator Iyiola Omisore at Lagere area while he was heading towards his polling unit at Moore to vote. Tribune Online authoritatively gathered that he was delayed for almost two hours in his Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV) marked FG 295
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target=_blank>Burnt INEC office: 36,392 electorate disenfranchised in Ebonyi — REC
No fewer than 36,392 voters in Ezza North Local Government Area of Ebonyi State were, on Saturday, denied their voting right following the burning down of INEC Registration Area Centre (RAC) in Okposi Umuoghara in the Local Government Area by suspected political thugs. The three wards affected out of 10 wards in the area are
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target=_blank>Fayose loses ward, polling unit to APC in Ekiti
Mr Ayodele Fayose, former Governor Ekiti, has lost his ward and polling unit in Afao Ekiti to the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Saturday’s house of assembly election. News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the APC candidate, Hakeem Jamiu, polled 168 votes to defeat Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) candidate, Sunday Omosilade, who garnered 26
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target=_blank>Elections: Hoodlums wreak mayhem at Ile Titun area of Ibadan
There was trouble at Ile Titun area of Ibadan as hoodlums set fire on the road, blocking free movement of people on the election day. Unconfirmed reports had it that they were protesting the death of one them, though the cause of death had yet to be known. The hoodlums were also throwing bottles and
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target=_blank>Kwara elections: APN calls for cancellation of result over of omission of party’s name
Alternative Party of Nigeria (APN), Kwara state, has called for the cancellation of Saturday governorship and House of Assembly elections in the state over omission of the party’s name and logo from the ballot paper by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Speaking with journalists in Ilorin on Saturday, the governorship candidate of the party,
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target=_blank>State elections: PDP decries killings, violence, militarisation
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has condemned what it observed was the heavy militarization of Saturday’s gubernatorial and state assembly elections, violence and killing of innocent Nigerians in the exercise, according to the party, by the desperate All Progressives Congress (APC). A statement issued in Abuja by Kola Ologbondiyan, National Publicity Secretary and Director, Media
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target=_blank>Two persons reportedly killed in Ondo over ballot snatching
There was pandemonium in Oba Akoko, in Akoko Southwest Local Government Area of Ondo state, when hoodlums suspected to be political thugs invaded the collation centre in the town, snatching ballot boxes during the House of Assembly election in the area. According to a source, the hoodlums invaded the collation centre and started shooting sporadically
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target=_blank>BREAKING: Shot Oyo Reps member, Temitope Sugar, dies in UCH
A member, representing Akinyele/Lagelu Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, Hon Temitope Olatoye, popularly known as Sugar is dead. He died at the intensive care unit of the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, on Saturday, evening, following a gunshot wound he sustained after he was shot in the eye by unknown gunmen in Ibadan.
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Elections: Oyo Reps member, ‘Sugar’ ‘shot in the eye,’ on admission at UCH
Popular Oyo State politician, Hon Temitope Olatoye fondly called ‘Sugar’ by his admirers, was on Saturday, sustained gunshot injury and has been admitted at the emergency unit of the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan. Sugar, a member of the Federal House of Representatives representing Lagelu/Akinyele Federal Constituency from Oyo State, was shot by an unknown […]
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