Chief Frank Nweke Jr., the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in Enugu, has urged the electorates to vote for Mr Peter Obi, the Labour Party presidential candidate, on Feb. 25 and cast other votes for APGA candidates. Nweke made the call while addressing the 48th...
2023 Elections
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says its contract for logistics delivery for the forthcoming general elections in Lagos State is with individual drivers and not with Musiliu Akinsanya, aka MC Oluomo. INEC National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye, made the clarification in an...
Yiaga Africa, a Civil Society Organisation has advised the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to rectify observed lapses at the recently concluded mock accreditation for a successful 2023 election. The Executive Director, Yiaga Africa, Mr Samson Itodo said this while presenting the organisation’s report on Bimodal Voters Accreditation System(BVAS)...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will not accept the nomination of university lecturers who are card carrying members or had participated in partisan politics or convicted of electoral malpractice as Returning and State Collation Officers in the forthcoming polls. The Chairman of INEC, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, made this...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Chairman Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu has called on on security agents to appreciate and prioritise the safety and protection of Persons With Disabilities (PWDs) in order to give them confidence and encouragement to come out en mass to exercise...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Thursday said that the commission’s worst challenge remained the desperation and do-or-die attitude of politicians. Mr Olusegun Agbaje, INEC’s Resident Electoral Commissioner in Lagos State stated this at the enlarged Stakeholders’ Forum of the commission at its headquarters in Lagos. Agbaje urged...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), said it has seek the permission of chancellors of Nigerian universities for the deployment of a specified number and category of academic staff for the 2023 general election. Speaking on Thursday in Abuja at a meeting with the...
An influential PDP member in Sokoto State, Alhaji Ummarun Kwabo has led high profile members of the party into the APC during the campaign rally of Bola Tinubu in Sokoto on Thursday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that some of those who defected during the APC presidential...
The Director-General, National Orientation Agency (NOA), Dr Garba Abari has expressed confidence that the 2023 general elections will hold as scheduled, in spite of the prevailing socio-economic challenges in the nation. Abari made this known in a statement issued by NOA Assistant Director of Press, Paul Odenyi in Abuja...
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – A constitutional lawyer, Mr. Fidelis Onyebueke, has charged Nigerians to vote the country back to themselves by choosing a right candidate during the forthcoming elections. Reacting to the current crisis in the banking and petroleum industries in the country, Onyebueke noted that if a...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The National Universities Commission (NUC) has ordered the closure of universities across the country to enable students to participate in the February 25 and March 11 general elections. The NUC, in a letter addressed to vice-chancellors of all universities and directors of inter-university centres,...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has called on Nigerians to shun all kinds of protests ahead of the 2023 general election. Prof. Ishaq Akintola, Executive Director, MURIC made the call in a statement issued on Thursday in Abuja. Prof. Akintola said: “The Central Bank...
Mr Christopher Imumolen, the Presidential Candidate of Accord Party, said Tinubu, Atiku and Obi all served Nigeria as youths and as such, they should allow youths now to contest and serve Nigeria in various capacities. Imumolen said this during his campaign on Wednesday in Abuja. He said that the...
Hundreds of people, including youths and Women from various political parties, on Wednesday defected to the Ekiti Local Government Area of Kwara chapter of the APC. APC Ekiti LG Chairman, Wale Awelewa, who received and handed them over to Rep Tunji Olawuyi, said they had equal rights like others...
Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral commission (INEC) says the 2023 general elections will hold as scheduled. Yakubu said this on Wednesday in Abuja when he fielded questions from State House Correspondents after he briefed the Federal Executive Council (FEC)on level of preparedness for the...
A chieftain of the Labour Party in Ebonyi State, Chief Henry Ude has defected to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). This is contained in a statement on Wednesday in Abakaliki signed by Chief Abia Onyike, the Director, Media and Publicity, PDP Governorship Campaign Council. Ude, one of the founding...
The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar has promised to continue with crude oil exploration in the North East. Abubakar said this when he addressed a mammoth crowd of party supporters at a rally in Bauchi on Tuesday. He said that crude exploration in North...
The Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele has promised to provide seamless cash needed for Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to prosecute the 2023 general election. The promise was in aftermath of the naira redesign policy of the present administration which restricted the withdrawal of money...
Police in Lagos State say members of the Inter-Agency Consultative Committee on Election Security (ICCES) are ready to contain all “funny behaviours’’ at the forthcoming general elections. Commissioner of Police in Lagos State, Mr Abiodun Alabi, the Co-Chairman of ICCES made the declaration in Lagos on Tuesday at a...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced that 295 candidates in Cross River, would participate in the general elections scheduled for Feb. 25 and March 11. The Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in the state, Prof. Gabriel Yomere, made this announcement in Calabar on Tuesday during a consultation with...