LAGOS JULY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has issued deadline for the suspension of voters’ registration exercise. The Commission equally extended the time of the registration which include Saturday and Sunday. INEC National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye Esq. who made the pronouncement in a statement sighted by…
LAGOS MAY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has extended the deadline for political parties to conduct their primaries for the 2023 general elections. INEC’s National Commissioner and Chairman of Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye, announced this in a statement on Friday in Abuja. This comes hours after leaders of various political…
LAGOS MARCH 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-At the summit in Accra, leaders of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) gave Mali’s military transitional government 12 to 16 months to arrange elections and offered Guinea’s ruling junta a month to propose a timeline for democratic transition. They also demanded Burkina Faso’s interim leaders immediately release President Roch…
LAGOS APRIL 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government has extended the deadline for linkage of Sim cards with National Identification Number (NIN) to May 6, 2021. This was disclosed at the meeting of the Ministerial Task Force on the NIN-SIM data linkage. The meeting was chaired by the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Ali…
LAGOS JUNE 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-As the leadership tussle in the All Progressives Congress, APC, escalates, the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC has warned political parties interested in the taking part in the September 19, 2020, Edo State governorship election that they must conduct their primary to elect a flagbearer within the next ten days as previously…
LAGOS DECEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government on Friday, urged the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), to discard the December 31 ultimatum over lingering disagreement between organised labour and state governments on the proposed N30,000 national minimum wage. Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed, made the appeal while speaking with State House correspondents, after a closed door meeting…