LAGOS JULY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon (retd) on Wednesday called for the expansion of National Youth Service Corps scheme beyond the shores of Nigeria. He said the time has come for the NYSC programme to be expanded to other African Union countries. Gowon made the all in an address delivered on…
LAGOS JULY 5TH (NEWRANGERS)-Professor Ben Nwabueze (SAN), a renowned constitutional lawyer and former education minister, has emerged as the lead counsel for Alhaji Atiku Abubakar as the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal begins to call out witnesses in the PDP candidate’s suit challenging President Muhammadu Buhari’s victory in the February 23 presidential election. Atiku had filed…
LAGOS JULY 1ST (NEWRANGRS)-The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC Kano zonal office on Friday, June 28, 2019 secured the conviction of a Deputy Director of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Auwal Jibrin, and one Garba Ismaila, before Justice Yusuf Birnin-Kudu of the Jigawa State High Court sitting in Gumel, on a six-count charge…
LAGOS JUNE 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal, on Thursday, struck out an application filed by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and President Muhammadu Buhari, seeking a dismissal of the petition filed by the Peoples Democratic Movement (PDM). PDM’s candidate, Aminchi Habu, and his party are challenging their exclusion from the February 23 presidential…
LAGOS JUNE 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Several officials who said they were deployed as electoral officers by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for the 2019 presidential election said they transmitted results electronically to a ‘central server’ through smart card readers. This they said was done in compliance with the directive given by the commission during a three-day…
LAGOS JUNE 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Independent National Electoral Commission has refuted claims that its Director of Information and Communication Technology, Mr Chidi Nwafor, has resigned. The commission made the clarification in a notice on its official Twitter handle @inecnigeria, on Saturday. It described the rumour as false, urging members of the public to disregard it. “The…
LAGOS JUNE 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A joint committee of information technology and legal experts has claimed to have incontrovertible evidence that Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) installed and deployed servers in 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja. The groups, Deservation and Pukka Initiative, made the revelation in Yola on Thursday night, showing a document,…
LAGOS JUNE 19TH (NEWRANGERS)-A political pressure group, the Vanguards of Democracy (VOD), has said that it is “very disheartening and shameful” that the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, “could stoop so low to deny the use of the INEC server in the collation and transmission of results for the…