Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has named Ahmed Mu’azu -a national commissioner – as the acting chairman of the Nigerian electoral commission. Professor Mahmood Yakubu, the outgoing chairman of

Twelve years ago on a chilly night on November 4, Barack Obama was elected President of the United States. It was a historic victory, and for millions of African Americans,

South-west governors, ministers and monarchs sunday called for a comprehensive review of the nation’s security system and advised that a review and implementation of reports of constitutional conferences, including the

After the declaration on Saturday that Democrat Joe Biden had won the race for the White House, Republican President Donald Trump and his allies made one thing clear: he does

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Saturday he would not congratulate a winner of the US presidential election until legal challenges are concluded, in an apparent bid to

US President-elect Joe Biden is set to make good on his longstanding promise to immediately sign a number of executive orders aimed at reversing several of President Donald Trump’s unilateral

President Donald Trump has continued to push his unsubstantiated claims of illegality in the voting process in states like Pennsylvania. The president lost his lead in the battleground state to rival

Democratic candidate Joe Biden has won the US presidential election. Biden reached the 273 electoral college votes needed to defeat President Donald Trump and clinch the White House, after it

White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, who has frequently appeared at public events without wearing a mask, has been diagnosed with COVID-19, a source familiar with the situation told

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensberger has announced that the state’s presidential contest will go to a recount. Joe Biden took the lead over President Donald Trump in the state

Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi on Friday taunted President Donald Trump by calling the US election for Joe Biden who she branded “president-elect.” Pelosi – one

President Donald Trump has again demanded that election officials stop the counting of votes in the country’s November 3 election. “STOP THE COUNT!,” the president tweeted on Thursday, two days

The Trump campaign said it filed lawsuits Wednesday in Pennsylvania and Michigan, laying the groundwork for contesting the outcome in undecided battleground states that could determine whether President Donald Trump

US President Donald Trump has been complaining about what he described as “surprise ballot dumps” as ballot counts in the Rust Belt showed his lead shrinking in those states –

Rapper Kanye West has acknowledged defeat in the US presidential election, but has assured fans he’ll be back in 2024. The 21-time Grammy winner is reported to have received around 57,000

A Nigerian-American Esther Agbaje has won an election in the US to represent District 59B in the Minnesota House of Representatives on the platform of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, an affiliate of the

Nigerian born Democrat, Adeoye Owolewa has been elected a shadow United States Representative out of the District of Columbia, with the 30-year-old becoming the first Nigerian congressman in the country’s

 Millions of Americans are voting in person on Tuesday, adding their ballots to the more than 99 million already cast by early voters in the country’s most divisive contest in

Cote d’Ivoire’s ‘s President Alassane Ouattara has won a controversial third term in office in an election boycotted by the opposition. He took 94% of the vote, even winning 99%