Author: TheLagosianMagazine

U.S. President Donald Trump cut short his nuclear summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un because the two sides could not agree on sanctions. The summit was held in Hanoi, Vietnam and was to conclude with a signing ceremony for an agreement between the two nuclear powers. Instead, the White House announced on Thursday that there would be nothing to sign. “It wasn’t a good thing to be signing anything. We had some options, and at this time we decided not to do any of the options, and we’ll see where that goes.” Trump said in a news conference. “Sometimes you have to walk, and this…

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President Muhammadu Buhari has delivered an acceptance speech at the Abuja headquarters of the presidential campaign council. Mr Buhari won the election after polling 15,191,847 votes while Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party polled 11,262,978 votes to finish as runner-up. Full text of the speech. My Dear Nigerians, First and foremost, I give thanks to Almighty God Who has spared our lives to witness another victory for Nigerian democracy and victory for our party APC. 2. I thank the millions of Nigerians who voted to re-elect me as your president for the next four years. I am deeply humbled…

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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has decaled President Muhammadu Buhari, candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) winner of the 2019 presidential election, held on Saturday Feb. 23. Buhari was declared re-elected having polled 15,191,847 votes, winning in 19 states, to defeat other 72 candidates including Atiku Abubakar, the Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who scored 11, 255,978 votes and won 17 states and the FCT, to occupied the second position. The states Buhari won are Bauchi, Borno, Ekiti, Gombe, Jigawa, Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Kebbi, Kogi, Kwara, Lagos, Nasarawa, Niger, Ogun, Osun, Sokoto, Yobe and Zamfara. Atiku…

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A student of the University of Lagos (UNILAG) on Tuesday told an Ikeja Domestic Violence and Sexual Offences Court that she was gang-raped by eight fellow students and blackmailed with a video recording of the assault. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Miss Z (name withheld), a 19-year-old student of the institution made the revelation while giving evidence during the trial of five students over the alleged crimes.ADVERTISEMENT The students are -Moboluwaji Omowole, 19, Chuka Chukwu, 19, Peace Nwankama, 19, James Aguedu, 20 and Osemeka Josephine, 20. They face a three-count charge of defilement of a child, permitting…

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C.O: Prof. M. BelloCollation of Results Total No: Reg Voters: 1,895,266Total No: of Accredited: 950,107Total Votes Cast: 925,940Total Valid Votes: 871,891Rejected Votes: 54,049 AAC: 181ADC: 331ADP: 189APC: 490,333PDP: 361,604SDP: 301

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