By Osita Chidoka “Here is the fact! Electoral results from 1979 to date show that the South East is ethnically blind regarding voting.” I will speak about the 2023 Presidential election after the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has completed the upload of results on the IREV portal. As of today, Thursday, March 2, 2023, at 5.56 pm, INEC had uploaded results from 153,546 Polling Units, five days after the election! Despite my desire to...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it will conduct supplementary polls after the governorship and state house of assembly elections. Guber and assembly elections will take place next weekend, two weeks after the conduct of the presidential and National Assembly polls. “The Commission is aware that in some Senatorial Districts and Federal Constituencies, Declarations and Returns were not made. The Commission is compiling the list of the affected constituencies,” INEC’s National Commissioner Festus Okoye...
The former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Bode George, has told the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu to postpone the governorship and House of Assembly elections taking place in March 11th pending when the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) and the server will start working to ensure electronic transmission of election results The PDP chieftain spoke on Arise TV on Thursday and carpeted INEC...
“Take a look at those we have put in Aso Rock in the last forty years. Dimwitted dumbasses. Dark-soul-ed oddballs. Grifters. Thieves, the kinds that turn over the treasury bag, shake it loose just for the pennies to drop. They left us with an empty bag” _________________________ Why do you people weep? Have you not cried enough? Why do you citizens of the nation of Nigeria not wake up and walk away from the nightmare?...
In what looks like he was not satisfied with activities of local and International Non-Governmental Organizations during the just concluded Presidential and National Assembly elections held on 25th February, 2023, the Adamawa state government has suspended activities of NGOs throughout the state till 15th March, 2023. Governor Fintiri in a statewide broadcastTuesday at the Government House Yola, saying the suspension became necessary, alleging that the NGOs’ have become involved in politics thereby compromising their services to...
As the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) closes its books on the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) registration exercise, the Board said it registered a total of 1,595,779 candidates, even as Lagos State leads in the number of registered candidates. The number according to the report fell short of the projected 1.6 million for the entire exercise, though this number does not include the Direct Entry component of the exercise, which had commenced...
Labour Party’s Tony Nwoye Defeats Stella Oduah, Ex-First Lady, Ebele Obiano To Win Anambra North Senatorial Election Nwoye defeated Senator Stella Oduah of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Mrs Ebele Obiano of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA). Ebele is the former first lady of Anambra State. Tony Nwoye of the Labour Party has won the Anambra North Senatorial District election. Nwoye defeated Senator Stella Oduah of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Mrs...
As the general election approaches, the Chairperson of Nnewi North Local Government, Lady Amaka Obiorah has appealed for support from the entire people of Nnewi North Local Government Area in favour of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA). She made the appeal in _Obi OkpunoEbenator_ and _Obi Okpuno Uzodike_(Uruagu Ward 3), Nnewi while supporting her husband, the Chairman of Nnewi North Local Government Area, Hon. Engr. Chris Obiorah in the campaign tour to ensure that...
The Commissioner of Police Enugu State Command, CP Ahmed Ammani urges the electorates not to be deterred by the recent happenings in the state to renege on their resolutions to make their vote count in the 2023 general elections. Confirming the simultaneous attacks and killings in the state on Wednesday evening, CP Ammani referred to the attacks as cowardly antics of hoodlums aimed at creating fear in the citizens and ultimately disrupt the electoral process....
A cultural proponent, Chief Mrs. Uche Ezeoke has canvassed for the revival of masquerade festival in the South-East as part of efforts aimed at promoting the rich Igbo cultural heritage and tradition. Chief Mrs Ezeoke made the call at Amichi in Nnewi South Local Government Area during her installation as Mother of Masquerades of the community. Chief Mrs Ezeoke who hails from Ndikelionwu and married to Amichi said that she will partner the Anambra State...
