18th March : INEC Bans POS machines At Polling Units

Ahead of the Saturday’s State House of Assembly polls in Anambra State, the Independent National Electoral Commission ( INEC) in Anambra State has banned Point of Sale( POS) machines in polling units across the state. Anambra State Resident Electoral Commissioner, Dr Queen Elizabeth Agwu, announced the ban on Friday. She warned the state ruling All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA), Labour Party (LP), Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the All Progressive Congress (APC) and other political parties...

Guber/State Assembly Polls: Sanwo-Olu promises Lagos residents of peaceful elections

The Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu has promised Lagos residents that there will be peaceful elections on Saturday, March 18, during the governorship and State House of Assembly polls, The governor gave the assurance in a statement by Gbenga Omotoso, the Commissioner for Information and Strategy, which was made available to journalists on Friday. While allaying fears over the traditional rites currently taking place in some parts of the state, the statement noted: “Following the...

March 18 Polls: NYSC DG harps on safety of corps members

Brigadier General YD Ahmed, the Director General (DG) of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has harped on the safety of corps members who are to serve as electoral officers during the March 18, gubernatorial and House of Assembly elections. Ahmed made the remark on Friday during his separate advocacy visits to the Bauchi State Director, Department of State Services (DSS), Malam Hussein Bukani Abdullahi, Brigade Commander, 33 Artillery Brigade Bauchi, Brigadier General E Egbe,...

Guber/HoA Elections: NGO warns INEC not to betray trust of Nigerians

A Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), Centre for Transparency Advocacy (CTA), has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to keep faith with its promise by ensuring a better outing than the 2023 presidential and National Assembly elections. Faith Nwadishi, the Executive Director of CTA, while speaking at a press conference in Asaba, Delta State, said the need for improvement in the previous election was imperative to avoid further post elections litigation. The  NGO charges security agencies...

Guber/HoA Polls: EFCC teams arrive states across Nigeria to monitor elections

Ahead of the governorship and House of Assembly polls on Saturday, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has deployed its teams of personnel across the states in the country to monitor the elections. A press statement on Friday signed by the Spokesperson of the Commission, Wilson Uwujaren, stated that, the teams led by senior officers began arriving at their assigned locations earlier Friday, March 17, with a number of them holding consultations with other...

Include more women in science, technology, French Ambassador advises

France Ambassador to Nigeria, Emmanuelle Blatmann has advised that more women in Nigeria be included in science and technology to bridge the existing gaps in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) in schools. The Ambassador gave the advice on the occasion to commemorate of the International Women’s Day (IWD) and as part of the quarterly Breakfast Debate programme, organised by the Institut français du Nigeria and the Embassy of France in Nigeria, with the breakfast debate...

The latest report from the Global Terrorism Index (GTI) has shown that the Islamist terrorist group, Boko Haram and the separatist group, Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) are the seventh and tenth deadliest terror groups in the world. In the report, the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) ranked sixth. The GTI report, which tracks terrorism incidents across the world, is published annually by the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP). The 2023 report was...

Guber polls: Tech experts launch an online portal for Nigerians to upload, view results from polling units

Two Nigerian tech experts have created an online platform for the collation and transmission of the results of the ongoing general election directly from polling units. The platform known as Collate Africa was created by Oo Nwoye, the founder and executive director of TechCircle and Ozo Omosigho. Nwoye, in an interview on ARISE TV yesterday, said Collate was designed to allow Nigerians independently and anonymously upload the election results from the 176,846 polling units across...

Two In DSS Net For Inciting Political Violence In Kano

Two persons, Sharu Abubakar Tabula and Isma’il Iliyasu Mangu have been arrested by the Department of State Services (DSS) for deliberately inciting violence in parts of Kano State. Peter Afunanya, Public Relations Officer of the DSS in a statement that the two persons allegedly championed specific political interests and called on their supporters to violently attack those opposed to them including security personnel during March 18, 2023, Governorship and House of Assembly election in the...

837 Candidates Battle For 28 Governorship Seats

Eight hundred and thirty-seven (837) governorship candidates on different political party platforms will contest the governorship seats in the 28 states tomorrow (Saturday). Similarly, 10,240 others will contest for 993 State Assembly seats in 1,021 constituencies across the country. Out of the 28 states where elections will hold, 17 serving governors have completed their second term in office including that of Taraba, Benue, Enugu, Ebonyi, Abia, Cross River, Delta, Akwa Ibom, Rivers, Kebbi, Sokoto, Kaduna,...

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