2023: INEC bars partisan, card-carrying politicians from collation, returning officers’ jobs

NewsNigeriaPolitics2023: INEC bars partisan, card-carrying politicians from collation, returning officers’ jobs

By Uzoamaka Ikezue (Staff Reporter)February 10, 2023

Prof Mahmood Yakubu, Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said that the electoral body is sticking to its previous arrangement to pick collation and returning officers from the ivory tower, and so has said that partisan, card-carrying members of political parties are not eligible to work as collation or returning officers in the 2023 general elections. He stated that despite some unpalatable experiences, the commission will continue to rely on the academic...

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Naira Swap Deadline: CNPP accuses APC of using court to arm-twist CBN to buy notes

NewsNigeriaPoliticsNaira Swap Deadline: CNPP accuses APC of using court to arm-twist CBN to buy notes

By Uzoamaka Ikezue (Staff Reporter)February 10, 2023

Conference Of Nigeria Political Parties (CNPP), the umbrella body of registered political parties and political associations in the country, has stated that the action of Governors of the All Progressives Congress (APC), in seeking to ambush the naira redesign policy of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) is a plot to retain the old naira notes for the purpose of vote buying during the 2023 general elections. The group in a press statement issued on...

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Naira Redesign: Allow Your Successor To Champion Cause, Miyetti Allah Tells Buhari

NewsNigeriaPoliticsNaira Redesign: Allow Your Successor To Champion Cause, Miyetti Allah Tells Buhari

By Uzoamaka Ikezue (Staff Reporter)February 8, 2023

The Leadership of Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) has called on President Muhammadu Buhari, to revise or hands up on the policy and allow his successor champion the Naira redesign policy. The Association alleged that the Policy was a plot by some politicians working in and around the President to paint him black after the expiration of his administration. leader of the association in South East, Alhaji Gidado Siddikki, who spoke to...

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Police station attack: zone XI PCRC boss, others visit Agodi area police command

Crime & SecurityNewsNigeriaPolice station attack: zone XI PCRC boss, others visit Agodi area police command

By Uzoamaka Ikezue (Staff Reporter)February 8, 2023

Otunba Femi Arowosola, the chairman of the Police Community Relation Commission (PCRC), and other chieftains of the association on Wednesday visited the Agodi area police command to sympathize with the police formation over rioters’ attack on the Agodi 2 police station. On Friday 3rd February, the police station was under heavy attack when angry protesters struck over the scarcity of new naira notes and petrol. The protesters who besieged the police state in large number...

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Bayelsa govt. swears in two young high court judges

NewsNigeriaPoliticsBayelsa govt. swears in two young high court judges

By Uzoamaka Ikezue (Staff Reporter)February 8, 2023

Governor Douye Diri of Bayelsa State has sworn in two new young High Court judges, Charlie Duke and Amadise Ekadi, who are aged 39 and 38, respectively. According to a press statement on Wednesday, signed by Mr Daniel Alabrahm, the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Duke, born in 1984 and Ekadi born in 1985 were brought in to help ease the pressure on other judges and enable them to dispense with cases promptly. The...

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INEC insists on working with MC Oluomo to distribute electoral materials in Lagos

NewsNigeriaPoliticsINEC insists on working with MC Oluomo to distribute electoral materials in Lagos

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)February 8, 2023

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has disclosed plans to engage the Lagos State Parks Management Committee for the distribution of election materials and transportation of electoral officials in the state. The West African Pilot News reports that Musiliu Akinsanya, popularly known as MC Oluomo, had written to INEC, requesting for the committee to assist the commission in the transportation of distribution of electoral materials on the election days in Lagos. According to him, this...

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Seun Kuti calls Peter Obi an opportunist, claims Obi can’t deliver Nigeria

NewsNigeriaPoliticsSeun Kuti calls Peter Obi an opportunist, claims Obi can’t deliver Nigeria

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)February 8, 2023

Nigerian singer Seun Kuti has described the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi as ‘an opportunist’ who has no plan for the country. Kuti, the last son of late Afrobeat legend Fela Anikulapo Kuti, made his stance on Obi’s presidential prospect known during an online interview with ‘TheMicOnPodcast’, hosted by Channels TV’s Seun Okinbaloye. The singer said the former Anambra governor, who only started a movement because he lost the presidential ticket...

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Naira scarcity: Aba residents cook, eat noodles at bank premises (Video)

NewsNigeriaPoliticsNaira scarcity: Aba residents cook, eat noodles at bank premises (Video)

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)February 8, 2023

With the lingering cash scarcity and queue at commercial banks, some Aba residents decided not to starve while waiting for their turn to dispense cash from a bank’s Automated Teller Machine (ATM) in the commercial city. The video shared on Twitter yesterday showed some men eating noodles from a pot at the bank premises while other bank customers watched. The voice behind the camera said the meal was prepared right on the bank premises, adding...

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Delta: APC Nat’l Youth Leader, Israel Inaugurates Jagaban Movement

NewsNigeriaPoliticsDelta: APC Nat’l Youth Leader, Israel Inaugurates Jagaban Movement

By Uzoamaka Ikezue (Staff Reporter)February 7, 2023

In a bid to mobilise support for its presidential candidate in the 2023 general elections, Hon. Dayo Israel, the National Youth Leader of the  All Progressives Congress  (APC), has inaugurated the Delta State chapter of Jagaban Foot Soldiers Movement, a special grassroots mobilisation unit of local canvassers and influential young members of the party commissioned to engage voters and secure their support for the party ahead of the general elections. Israel, who continued his nationwide...

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Sanwo-Olu, Lagos PDP sympathise with Funke Akindele on mother’s death

LifestyleNewsNigeriaSanwo-Olu, Lagos PDP sympathise with Funke Akindele on mother’s death

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)February 7, 2023

Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State has sympathised with the deputy governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in Lagos, Funke Akindele, over the death of her mother, Dr Adebanjo-Akindele. Sanwo-Olu commiserated with the Akindeles in a statement issued by his Chief Press Secretary, Gboyega Akosile, on Tuesday. The governor’s condolence message read partly, “On behalf of my family and the good people of Lagos State, I hereby express my heartfelt condolences to the...

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