Day: February 26, 2023

One of humanity’s biggest achievements in the last century was making a huge increase in food production. From 1900 to 2000, there was a six-fold increase in crop harvests while the global population increased less than four-fold, meaning that on average people today have around 50 per cent more food available than their great, great

The Speaker of the Bauchi State House of Assembly and the Chairman of the Conference of Speakers of State Legislatures of Nigeria, Abubakar Suleiman, has won his local government area, Ningi, for the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar. The result of the election held on Saturday which was announced by the

La Liga leaders Barcelona tumbled to an embarrassing 1-0 defeat at Almeria on Sunday, failing to capitalise on Real Madrid’s derby draw with Atletico to extend their advantage. El Bilal Toure’s fine first half strike split the teams and earned Almeria their first-ever victory over Barca, inflicting only the second defeat of the league campaign

The Independent National Electoral Commission in Ogun State has completed the collation of the results of the presidential election in the state. At exactly 11:00pm on Sunday, the results of the 20th local government were announced which showed that the All Progressives Congress cleared all the councils. The Resident Electoral Commission, Niyi Ijalayem, and the

Kylian Mbappe reached 200 goals for Paris Saint-Germain to become the club’s joint all-time top scorer as the France superstar netted twice in his side’s 3-0 win over Ligue 1 title rivals Marseille on Sunday. Mbappe scored both his goals at the Velodrome from Lionel Messi assists and in between, he set up the Argentine

The Resident Electoral Chairman for the Independent National Electoral Commission in Oyo State, Dr Adeniran Tella, has announced that collation will resume on Monday at 8am. Following the announcement of 30 local governments in the state, Ibadan North, Ibadan South East and Ibadan South West Local Government Areas are being awaited. The PUNCH had earlier

The decent showing of the Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, in the election held on Saturday, continued as he beat Atiku Abubakar in the Numan Local Government Area of Adamawa State. In the result announced by the Collation Officer for Numan Local Government, Prof Reuben Gunnie, the Labour Party candidate polled a total of

The collation of results of the presidential election in Cross River State has again been postponed until Monday. The Resident Electoral Commissioner, Prof Gabriel Yomere, announced this on Sunday night after the result of one local government area, Etung LG, arrived at the INEC office for collation. Collation was initially scheduled for 12 noon on

The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, is currently leading in the 29 Local Governments results that have been announced in the state. With 33 local governments in total, four local governments results are being awaited at the state collation centre. Meanwhile, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar,

The collation of the results of the presidential election in Bayelsa State has been temporarily suspended. The collation process will resume at 11pm Sunday at the Professor Mahmood Yakubu Media Centre, the venue of the exercise at the Yenagoa INEC office on Swali Road. The State Returning Officer and Vice Chancellor of the University of