Author: TheLagosianMagazine

The video posted by @itz_laolao shows the aftermath of the attack on the Ago Palace Way polling unit by thugs.

The video posted on Twitter by @SaintOraye shows people who appear to be soldiers walking on the street in Akuku Toru LGA in Rivers State as the sound of gunshots is heard in the background.

Bangladeshi Security forces foiled a hijack attempt on flight BG147 by a 25-year-old man on Sunday. All passengers on board the Bangladesh Biman plane which was bound for Dubai from Dhaka plane are safe. “We have successfully rescued everyone,” said Air Vice Marshall Mofid, after security forces stormed the plane and arrested the man. Mofid told reporters that the hijacker claimed he had a pistol. The country’s civil aviation chief Nayeem Hasan earlier said the suspect had claimed to have a bomb. “From the talks and dialogue we have with him, it seems he is psychologically deranged,” Hasan said after…

Atiku Abubakar, the Presidential Candidate of the PDP, has suffered defeat in the hands of Muhammadu Buhari, the Presidential Candidate of the APC. Wild jubilation broke out following the announcement that Mr Buhari scored 186 votes to defeat Atiku Abubakar, who got 167 votes. Atiku loyalists have reacted to the results, saying the unit has been historically won by Mr Buhari. The results from Atiku’s polling unit are amongst some of the early returns trickling in from across the country in today’s presidential and federal parliamentary elections. Buhari also overwhelmingly won his polling unit in Daura, Katsina State.

The former President and his wife, Dame Patience Jonathan and his mother, Madam Eunice Afeni, cast their votes at Ogbia Local Government Area, Bayelsa State.

The Governor cast his vote at Ogunmodede Junior/Senior College in Epe, Lagos State.

Voting materials in Okirika, Rivers State are nowhere to be found. An INEC official confirmed the diversion of the materials

The PDP Presidential candidate and his wife cast their votes at Ajiya in Yola North Local Government Area of Adamawa State.

TV Cameras captured the President peeking at his wife’s ballot paper,

The video shows Obafemi Awolowo on the campign trail in 1959 as he sought election into the Federal House of Representatives.