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Sunday, 29 January 2023 06:05

INEC extends PVC collection deadline again, for the ‘last time’

Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has extended the deadline for the collection of permanent voter cards (PVCs). This is the second time INEC will extend the deadline for PVC collection. The previous deadline was January 29. In a statement, Festus Okoye, national commissioner and chairman, information and voter education committee, said the decision was taken after a meeting on Saturday. The new deadline for PVC collection is February 5. “The Commission met today, Saturday, 29th January 2023 a day after its meeting with the Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs) from the 36 States of the Federation and the Federal capital Territory,…

Saturday, 28 January 2023 05:52

After ‘petrol and new Naira’ outburst, Tinubu, APC govs visit Buhari in Katsina

Three governors of the All Progressives Congress (APC), on Thursday night, accompanied Bola Tinubu, the party’s presidential candidate, to meet with President Muhammadu Buhari in Daura, Katsina state. The president is in the state for a 2-day working visit. Tinubu’s visit comes in the wake of his outburst during the APC presidential rally in Abeokuta, Ogun state capital, on Wednesday. The APC standard bearer had said the naira redesign and lingering petrol scarcity were designed to frustrate his chances in the presidential election. “Hide the petrol, hide the naira, we will still vote! We will win,” the former Lagos governor…

Saturday, 28 January 2023 05:51

Tinubu’s ex-campaign director, Naja’atu, accuses APC presidential running mate of sponsoring terrorism

A former Director of the Presidential Campaign Council of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Hajia Naja’atu Mohammed, has fired her former party alleging that its vice presidential candidate, Kashim Shettima is a sponsor of terrorism. The former APC chieftain said this during a television interview on Arise Television. She further revealed that a notorious terrorist, Kabiru Sokoto, was back then found and arrested in the home of the former Borno State governor turned vice presidential candidate. It would be recalled that Naja’atu recently resigned from her appointment with the APC and Tinubu’s campaign train weeks to the February 25 polls.…

Saturday, 28 January 2023 05:50

Osun election tribunal sacked Adeleke as governor for this one reason

Governor Ademola Adeleke-led administration in Osun State came to a hurting halt on Friday as the Osun Election Petitions Tribunal sacked him from office. While annulling the July 16 Osun governorship poll results, the tribunal held that the Independent National Electoral Commission did not comply with the provisions of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as well as the Electoral Act as amended. Independent National Electoral Commission had declared Adeleke, the Peoples Democratic Party governorship candidate, the winner of the July 16 election. The Returning Officer for the election and former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Lagos, Oluwatoyin…

Thursday, 26 January 2023 05:50

‘They want to hide under fuel scarcity so that there won’t be election’, Tinubu alleges

Presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, on Wednesday alleged a plot is being made to scuttle the general elections. The elections are scheduled for 25 February and 11 March for the federal and state offices respectively. But while addressing a rally at the Moshood Abiola International Stadium, Abeokuta, Ogun State, Tinubu indicated some interests were against the elections being held as scheduled. Tinubu said the scarcity of fuel being experienced across the country and the redesign of the naira, the Nigerian currency, were part of the plot to sabotage the polls. But he assured his…

Thursday, 26 January 2023 05:48

Abia PDP governorship candidate is dead. Here’s the legal implication of that for the party

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in Abia State, Uchenna Ikonne, is dead. Ikonne, a professor and former vice chancellor of the Abia State University Uturu, passed away on Wednesday, 25 January, around 4 a.m. at the National Hospital Abuja, according to a statement from his first son, Uche-Ikonne Chikezie, on behalf of the family. “I regret to announce the death of my dear father, Eleazar Uchenna Ikonne, who died at the National Hospital Abuja today, 25th January 2023 by 4am after a brief illness. He was recovering after taking proper treatment in the United Kingdom but relapsed a few…

Wednesday, 25 January 2023 05:30

Peter Obi escapes unhurt as hoodlums attack car ‘with heavy stones’ after Katsina rally

Presidential campaign council of the Labour Party (LP) says Peter Obi, its candidate, was attacked in Katsina state. In a statement by Diran Onifade, its head of media, the campaign council said Obi’s car was attacked by hoodlums when he was on his way to the airport after a rally in the state. “Our candidate had met with women in a townhall and then held a hugely successful rally at the Muhammad Dikko Stadium,” the statement reads. “However, on his way to the airport, hoodlums attacked the car our candidate was riding in with heavy stones from his driver’s side,…

Saturday, 21 January 2023 05:34

Igbo leaders call for release of Nnamdi Kanu, disclaim secession

Council of Elders of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Worldwide, has said it is planning to organise a peace summit to discuss ways of addressing insecurity in the country and the Southeast especially. The council said this in a communiqué issued by its Chairperson, Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, on Friday in Abuja at the end of its meeting. The council called on the Federal Government to release Nnamdi Kanu, the detained leader of the proscribed IPOB unconditionally. “The council took a decision on the need to have a peace summit. It goes with the desire that Nnamdi Kanu should be released. “We want to dialogue…

Thursday, 19 January 2023 05:58

Peter Obi: The 'antidote to big man-ism' who could be Nigeria's next president - UK’s Sky News

He was relatively unknown until a few months ago, and yet Peter Obi has been propelled to frontrunner status in Nigeria's upcoming election. Young, by Nigerian political standards, at 61, and with a reputation for probity in a country rife with corruption, he is the man to watch. His supporters say that if he wins the presidency in February, it will show Nigeria's democracy is in good shape in the world's first big election of 2023. Sky News had rare access to the Labour Party candidate during a brief visit to London. He is, he said, the change agent in…

Wednesday, 18 January 2023 06:08

Young voters will determine outcomes of 2023 elections - INEC

Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has foreclosed the possibility of insecurity in parts of the country forcing it into cancelling or postponing the February 25 and March 11 elections. Its chairman, Mahmood Yakubu stated this, yesterday, at a lecture at Chatham House in London assuring that the commission was fully prepared to also handle a run-off if it happens during the polls. Speaking on the topic ‘Nigeria’s 2023 Elections: Preparations and Priorities for Electoral Integrity and Inclusion’ the INEC boss declared that the 2023 elections is for young people. He said 21,000 ineligible voters were found in 15 states even…

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Monday, 16 January 2023 05:43

Concerns over 2023 elections as IGP, 3 DIGs, 16 AIGs, 290 other senior police officers are due for retirement in Q1

Six weeks to the general election, there is anxiety over the expected retirement of the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Alkali Usman Daba, three Deputy Inspectors General of Police (DIGs), many Assistant Inspectors General of Police (AIGs), Commissioners of Police (CPs) and 290 other policemen in the first quarter of this year. IGP Baba would turn 60 in March, having been born in 1963 and therefore due for retirement. Also, three DIGs and many AIGs are due for retirement between this month and March ending. Others due for retirement by March are 10 Commissioners of Police (CPs), five Deputy Commissioners…

Monday, 16 January 2023 05:41

LP protests as Anambra govt dismantles Peter Obi billboards

Anambra State Signage and Advertisement Agency has dismantled campaign billboard of the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi. Obi’s big billboard located at the Nnamdi Azikiwe University Temporary Site Flyover was pulled down on Saturday alongside that of the party’s candidate for the Anambra Central Senatorial District, Victor Umeh. In August 2022, Anambra State Government had directed presidential candidates to pay N10m, senatorial candidates to pay N7m, House of Representatives candidates to pay N5m and state House of Assembly candidates to pay N1m as campaign fees before mounting any billboard or pasting posters. Speaking on the development on…

Monday, 16 January 2023 05:32

A look at Atiku’s campaign model - Hassan Gimba

Perhaps in the future, politicians, political analysts, strategists, scientists and consultants may want to look at one or two things here that make Atiku Abubakar’s campaign what it is, especially its tenacity, perseverance, astuteness and personal ties. Between 1993 and this year, that’s thirty years, Abubakar, former vice president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, would have contested the presidential election eight times. Twice – in 2007 and 2019 – he was a candidate on the platform of two different parties, and thrice – in 1993, 2011 and 2015 – he was stopped at the primaries level. He won twice…

Friday, 13 January 2023 05:34

INEC extends deadline for PVC collection

Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has extended the deadline for the collection of permanent voter cards (PVC) till January 29. The commission announced this in a statement on Thursday signed by Festus Okoye, its national commissioner and chairman, information and voter education. INEC had fixed December 12 to January 22 for the collection of PVCs in all the 774 LGAs. It also said it would devolve PVC collection to the 8,809 registration areas/wards from January 6 to January 15, 2023, after which the exercise will revert to the LGA offices until January 22 when the process will end. According to…

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