MaTaZ ArIsInG •Call for setting up of committee to look at discrepancies •Peace committee demands probe of electoral malfeasance •Tinubu to president: don’t allow Obasanjo lure you into tainting your democratic credentials Onyebuchi Ezigbo, Emmanuel Addeh in Abuja and James Sowole in Abeokuta Former President Olusegun Obasanjo and the National Peace Committee led by former […] Read more
Monday Lines – By Lasisi Olagunju MaTaZ ArIsInG (Published in the Nigerian Tribune on Monday, 27 February, 2023) Who registered the kids we saw in the election queues in Kano on Saturday? I watched video clips of women on lines with four, five, six-year-old kids. They were all there to cast votes. I saw, in […] Read more
By Wole Olaoye MaTaZ ArIsInG Today is the tomorrow you fretted about yesterday. You had thought that we were at the portals of oblivion in the run-up to the presidential elections. By now, we are all supposed to have vaporised. I made a quick check at dawn this morning; the sun still rose from the […] Read more
MaTaZ ArIsInG February 26, (THEWILL) – Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has asked the National Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Mahmood Yakubu, to instruct the Collation Officers for Saturday’s ’election, to upload the results from the Polling Units to the INEC server immediately. The former Vice […] Read more
MaTaZ ArIsInG The Labour Party Chairperson in Lagos State, Dayo Ekong, had in a statement decried the exclusion of the party’s logo on the ballot papers. The Labour Party (LP) has asked the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to include its party logo on all the ballot papers across the country and where the logo […] Read more
MaTaZ ArIsInG With OBI wining South East, South South, North Central. OBI will be 2nd in South West with BAT leading in South West. It will be head to head between PDP and APC with NNPP having above 25% in some North West states. The RESULTS will be too close to call on 1st ballot! […] Read more
MaTaZ ArIsInG Listen to audio: The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, on Friday, described as “utter rubbish” an audio clip circulating on social media wherein it was alleged that he alongside his running mate, Ifeanyi Okowa, and the Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Tambuwal, revealed plans to scuttle the forthcoming election. In […] Read more
MaTaZ ArIsInG • As 87.2m Nigerians elect next President tomorrow •Lagos, Kano, Kaduna, Katsina top chart •BVAS use mandatory, says INEC. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), yesterday, declared its readiness for this tomorrow’s presidential and National Assembly election, announcing that 87.2 million Nigerian electorate are eligible to participate. INEC Chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, who made […] Read more
Nigerian separatist agitator Simon Ekpa arrested in Finland (Simon Ekpa is a factional leader of the Nigerian proscribed separatist group the Indigenous People of Biafra [IPOB]). Simon Ekpa is a Nigerian-Finnish lawyer, political activist and former athlete. He is chiefly known for spreading fake news and allegedly inciting violence in southeastern Nigeria. Finland authorities on […] Read more
MaTaZ ArIsInG I’m alive, Ayefele declares. Yinka Ayefele Speaks On His Death Rumour… Ace gospel musician Yinka Ayefele (MoN) has debunked rumour of his death. The news has been trending on social media, especially TikTok, that death has cut short Ayefele’s life in spite of sustaining fame for three decades. Describing the news as fake […] Read more