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Catholic Priests, on Saturday, February 25, saved a Supervisory Presiding Officer (SPO) of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from being beaten up by youths for trying to stop voting in Enugu. The incident happened at polling unit 004, 005, 006 and 007 located at Bigard Memorial Seminary, Enugu The SPO visited the polling units…
Cross River State Governor, Ben Ayade has lost his bid to return to the Senate following his defeat by the incumbent senator representing Cross River North, Senator Jarigbe Agom-Jarigbe. Ayade, who was in the Senate between 2011 and 2015, lost the National Assembly elections conducted on Saturday with 56,595 votes against Agom-Jarigbe’s of the Peoples…
Labour Party,LP, has won 7 out of 8 Federal House of Representatives seats in the Saturday’s February 25, Presidential and National Assembly elections in Enugu state. Chidi Obettta was declared winner of the Nsukka/Igboeze South Federal constituency election.lReturning officer of INEC, Romanus Eze, announced the result on Sunday.Obetta pulled 50, 881 votes to defeat Vita…
Former Nigeria’s President, Olusegun Obasanjo has written a letter to President Muhammad Buhari, over the irregularities in the 2023; presidential election, alleging that Saturday’s Presidential and National Assembly elections were grossly manipulated and results uploaded without due process. In the letter he personally signed on Monday, Obasanjo alledged that some INEC officials had collected “blood money”,…
Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), on Monday, declared Neda Imasuen of the Labour Party (LP) as the winner of the Edo South senatorial district election of Saturday. The Returning Officer, Prof. A. Obasuyi, announced that Imasuen scored 167,250 votes to defeat his PDP and APC opponents, who scored 57,933 votes and 61,749 respectively. The LP candidate…
Ahead of the Governorship and States House of Assembly’s elections coming up on 12March,2023, a Civil society group, under the auspices of Coalition of INEC Accredited Civil Society Organizations, has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC), to correct all problems encountered in the last Saturday’s presidential election, urging them to ensure results were uploaded…
Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has extended the deadline for the collection of Permanent Voters Card (PVC) across the country by one week. The commission made this known in a statement by INEC National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye, on Saturday. He noted that the ongoing collection of PVCs nationwide…
No fewer than 8,150 persons were displaced from Galadima-Kogo and environs in Shiroro Local Gover9 Not fewer than8,150 persons were displaced from Galadima-Kogo and environs in Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger when an aircraft bombed the area on Jan. 24. Many members of a vigilance group in the area were killed, while their commander…
International Federation of Women Lawyers ,FIDA, Enugu branch, on Friday, January 28, paid a visit to Mrs Virginia Eze, a mother of 7 and a widow at her village ,Obiofia ,Okpuno Nsude in Udi local government area of Enugu state ,to ascertain her challenges in taking care of her aged mother. Virginia was the woman…
House of Representatives Ad-hoc Committee on New Naira Re-design and Naira Swap Policy has rejected the 10 days extension announced by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) for the exchange of old naira notes. The Chairman of the committee, Ado Doguwa (APC-Kano), in a statement on Sunday, insisted that the position of the law on…