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Tuesday, 13 September 2022 07:02

INEC invalidates several voter registrations over irregularities - Official

Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it has detected several invalid registrations during the clean-up of the register from the recently-concluded voter registration exercise. The continuous voter registration exercise (CVR) ended on July 31 — thirteen months after it began. In April, the commission had said 45 percent of registrations done in 2021 were invalid. The commission has previously given reasons for invalid registrations as multiple registrations and incomplete data. In a statement on Monday by Festus Okoye, its commissioner for information and voter education, the commission said it would provide the public with details after the clean-up exercise has…

Tuesday, 13 September 2022 07:01

2023: It’s not your turn, Obi carpets Tinubu

Presidential candidate of Labour Party, Peter Obi, has said next year’s Presidential election is not based on ethnicity or religion, hence it is nobody’s turn. Speaking at the Labour Party Leadership Retreat in Abuja on Monday, Obi promised to sign a performance agreement with the Nigerian Labour Congress to make sure that ideas generated at the retreat are followed to the latter. Apparently referring to the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, Obi insisted that since there was no place where Christians or Muslims buy things cheaper, or Yoruba or Hausa’s have free light than others…

Saturday, 10 September 2022 06:36

Results portal attacked from ‘across the world’ during Ekiti, Osun gov elections - INEC

Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says its result viewing (IReV) portal has come under attack from hackers across the world. Mahmood Yakubu, INEC chairman, said this while delivering a keynote address at a stakeholders’ conference on election result management on Friday in Abuja. The conference was organised by YIAGA Africa, a civil society organisation (CSO), to launch the election result analysis dashboard (ERAD) report agenda. Yakubu said the commission has recorded several attempts to hack the cyber security system of the result viewing portal. “Another technical concern for us is the repeated attempts to break through our cyber security system…

Saturday, 10 September 2022 06:35

‘I love what Peter Obi is doing, God can make him President in 2023’, APC gov says after meeting Buhari

Governor Dave Umahi of Ebonyi State has said Peter Obi, Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate for the 2023 election, is widely accepted. The All Progressives Congress (APC) Governor said although his support is for Bola Tinubu, his party’s candidate, “only God knows who will win”. He said this while fielding questions from State House reporters after a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Umahi said the meeting was to invite Buhari for the commissioning of about N1.2 billion Governor’s Lodge at Asokoro, Federal Capital Territory (FCT). The governor, who lost the APC presidential ticket in June,…

Wednesday, 07 September 2022 06:51

Liz Truss’ UK cabinet is first with no white men in topmost appointments

Liz Truss’s new government will be the UK’s first without a White man holding one of the so-called four great offices of state. The new premier named Kwasi Kwarteng as Chancellor of the Exchequer, making him Britain’s first Black finance minister. Suella Braverman, who is of Indian heritage, was appointed home secretary, while James Cleverly, who identifies as mixed race, was assigned the role of top diplomat as foreign secretary. Truss herself is the third female British prime minister. Following a bruising runoff against Rishi Sunak, Truss has prioritized loyalty and ideological alignment above all. She built her campaign on…

Monday, 05 September 2022 06:34

UK’s Liz Truss expected to be named Conservative leader, new PM

Liz Truss is expected to be named leader of the governing Conservative Party and Britain's next prime minister today (Monday), poised to take power at a time when the country faces a cost of living crisis, industrial unrest and a recession. After weeks of an often bad-tempered and divisive party leadership contest that pitted Truss against Rishi Sunak, a former finance minister, Monday's announcement at 1130 GMT will trigger the beginning of a handover from Boris Johnson. He was forced to announce his resignation in July after months of scandal. On Tuesday, the winner will travel to Scotland to meet…

Monday, 05 September 2022 06:33

Chileans overwhelmingly reject new left-leaning constitution

Chileans resoundingly rejected a new constitution to replace a charter imposed by the dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet 41 years ago, dealing a stinging setback to President Gabriel Boric who argued the document would have ushered in a progressive era. With 96% of the votes counted in Sunday’s plebiscite, the rejection camp had 61.9% support compared to 38.1% for approval amid what appeared to be a heavy turnout with long lines at polling states. Voting was mandatory. The approval camp conceded defeat, with its spokesman Vlado Mirosevic saying: “We recognize this result and we listen with humility to what the…

Sunday, 04 September 2022 06:56

People have understood they were lied to in 2015 - Kukah

Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Sokoto, Matthew Hassan Kukah yesterday said it was important for the political actors, particularly the 2023 presidential candidates to listen to the young people, understand their frustrations, and align their agenda toward assuaging their grievances. Kukah said this was important because the passion that drove people during the 2015 elections had dissipated, and that the people had understood they were lied to “and we have all seen the consequences of religious manipulations.”Kukah, who spoke on Arise News, said: “The passion that drove people in 2015, those passions have been dissipated because people realised that…

Friday, 02 September 2022 06:54

Threats of fascism in Nigeria already visible - Jonathan

Former President Goodluck Jonathan has said Nigeria is gradually moving towards dictatorship. The former president stated this at the 70th birthday celebration of Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Matthew Hassan Kukah, held at Sheraton Hotel in Abuja. Speaking on the theme of the event, ‘Nigeria’s Unfinished Greatness: Next Steps’, Jonathan urged Nigerians to remain vigilant and united to choose leaders that will lead the nation to the promised land. He said, “The task before all of us is not to lower our guard, lest the democracy we cherish today, succumbs to threats and recedes into fascism tomorrow and there are…

Friday, 02 September 2022 06:53

Wike to Ayu: ‘Yes, we’re children; but we the children brought you to power’

For calling his supporters “children,” Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has described the PDP National Chairman, Iyorchia Ayu, as arrogant and an ingrate. He said the people that Ayu so described brought him from nothing and placed him in the position he currently occupies. The governor made the comment during the commissioning of Omerelu Internal roads in the Ikwerre Local Government Area of the state. His comment was in response to Ayu’s statement where he said the people calling for his resignation are children. At their meeting in London, last Thursday, the governor and his team told Atiku Abubakar…

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Friday, 02 September 2022 06:52

Muslim-Muslim ticket crude, unproductive - Northern elders

Chairman, Northern Elders Forum (NEF), Ango Abdullahi has described 2023 Muslim-Muslim ticket for the presidential election as crudest and most unproductive. Though, Abdullahi who is a former Vice Chancellor, Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria was short of mentioning the political party behind the Muslim-Muslim ticket, said it is designed to separate Christians from Muslims, Hausa from Fulani in Northern region. The NEF Chairman who spoke at a book launch yesterday in Kaduna, added that North will participate in all electoral activities and respect Nigerians who respect the region. “We will participate in all political and electoral activities as equals, and…

Thursday, 01 September 2022 06:38

Those calling for my resignation are ‘children’, PDP national chair blasts Wike, allies

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Chairman, Iyorchia Ayu, has said all those calling for his resignation are children that were not around when the party was formed. The camp of Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has given Ayu’s resignation as one of the conditions that has to be fulfilled to resolve the post-presidential primaries crisis rocking the opposition party. Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar had defeated Wike in the presidential primaries of the party. Although Atiku was asked to consider Wike as running mate, he had settled for Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta, to the dismay of the Rivers governor…

Wednesday, 31 August 2022 07:08

Nigerians in diaspora pledge to raise $150m, N100bn for Obi’s campaign

In a bid to bolster his chances in the 2023 presidential election, which holds 178 days from now, Nigerians in the Diaspora have formed groups of committees to launch crowdfunding initiatives for the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi. They plan to unveil in the coming days a crowdfunding portal with a target to raise $150 million from Obi’s supporters in the diaspora and N100 billion from those in Nigeria, THISDAY has reliably gathered. A dependable source close to one of Obi’s supporters leading the process, said yesterday they are targeting small amount in contributions to be…

Wednesday, 31 August 2022 07:07

Tinubu, Shettima, APC govs visit Jonathan at Abuja home

Bola Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), on Tuesday, met with former President Goodluck Jonathan. Tinubu was accompanied to Jonathan’s residence in the federal capital territory (FCT) by Kashim Shettima, APC vice-presidential candidate; Dapo Abiodun, governor of Ogun; Simon Lalong, governor of Plateau; and Bello Matawalle, governor of Zamfara, among others. Apart from a picture that surfaced online following the meeting, details of what was discussed are not yet known. In recent times, APC stalwarts have made efforts to woo the former president to the ruling party. In April, supporters of the former president — who…

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