Nasir Idris of the All Progressives Congress has been announced by the INEC Returning Officer, Professor Saidu Yusuf, as the winner of the governorship polls in Kebbi State.
Following the supplementary election held last Saturday, Nasir Idris made a total of 409,225 votes, while his closest rival, General Aminu Bands of the PDP, secured 360,940 votes. The outcome of the election led to jubilations across the state by Idris’ supporters, while PDP supporters were left in shock. During his acceptance speech, Governor-elect Idris promised to lead an all-inclusive government, building on the successes of Governor Abubakar Atiku Bagudu. “Let me use this opportunity to thank our teeming supporters who turned out en masse to vote APC into the office to continue enjoying the dividends of democracy. “To those who we contested with from other parties, you should know we have no other state than Kebbi. You should therefore join hands with us to move the state forward,” he said.
Big Brother Titans South African born housemate Khosi has emerged winner of the first edition of the Big Brother Titans reality television show. This comes after 78 days on the show which witnessed a series of drama, competitions, and loads of fun between 24 housemates from Nigerian and South Africa combined. Khosi survived all six weeks that she was nominated for possible eviction and heading to the final week among the top 6 housemates. Her journey in the Big Brother house was unique haven survived the pairing evictions and two individual evictions. Kanaga Jnr was announced as the first runner-up followed by the second runner-up Tsatsii while Yvonne, Ebubu, and Ipeleng were the 4th, 5th, and 6th respectively.
It was indeed an emotional moment for Khosi not just making it this far but going home with the show’s grand prize of $100k including a brand new car and other benefits. 
Alexx Otti overtook the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Okey Ahiwe, in the March 18 gubernatorial elections. According to the vice-chancellor of the Federal University of Technology Owerri, Mrs Oti, the LP candidate defeated his rival with 175,467 votes. This declaration from INEC comes after some residents and supporters of the Labour Party (LP) in Abia state, in their hundreds launched a protest in Umuahia against INEC asking them to declare Alex Otti as the winner The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP candidates pulled 88,529 votes, while Young Peoples’ Party (YPP) came third with 28,972 votes. This win is the Labour Party’s first victory in the 2023 election 
SDP governorship candidate, Senator Magnus Abe, came third with a total of 46,981 votes. The PDP governorship candidate won in all 23 local government areas of the State. The results are as follows: Total Registered Voters: 353,7190 Accredited voters: 496,852 A- 7,155 AA – 1,693 AAC – 386 ADC – 940 ADP – 925 APC – 95,274 APGA – 489 APM – 568 APP – 973 BP – 137 LP – 22,224 NNPP – 335 NRM – 2,258 PDP – 302,614 SDP – 46,981 YPP – 644 ZLP – 338 Total Valid Vote: 483,934 Total Rejected Vote: 10,670 Total Votes Cast: 494,604 
Biyi Otegbeye of the ADC polled 94, 754 votes to come third. Abiodun won in 12 local government areas while Mr. Adebutu won in eight local government areas. A total of 13 political parties took part in Saturday’s election held across the state. 
Tinubu defeated 17 other candidates who took part in the election. He scored a total of 8,794,726 votes, the highest of all the candidates, thus meeting the first constitutional requirement to be declared the winner. He also scored over 25 per cent of the votes cast in 30 states, more than the 24 states constitutionally required. Atiku Abubakar of the PDP came second in the election after polling 6,984,520 votes in the election. Peter Obi of the Labour Party came third in the election with a total of 6,101,533 votes while Rabiu Kwankwaso of the NNPP came fourth with 1,496,687 votes. 
Digital solutions provider, Globacom, has held another draw for a new winner of one of the three-bedroom houses in its Festival of Joy promotion. The draw was conducted at the company’s office on Aminu Kano Crescent, Abuja, on Thursday, January 19, with the media, several Glo subscribers, and representatives of the National Lottery Regulatory Commission (NLRC) and the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) in attendance. Globacom disclosed that the winner would receive the keys to the house at a prize-presentation event to be held on Friday, January 20. The Festival of Joy promo has so far produced winners of houses, brand new cars and other prizes in several cities across the country, including Lagos, Port Harcourt, Enugu, Ibadan, Ijebu Ode, Warri, Benin,