LAGOS NOVEMBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The suspended Adamawa state Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Hudu Yunusa Ari, has evaded arraignment for the second time. Yunusa-Ari has gone into hiding, the Investigating Police Officer (IPO), CSP Moses Jolugbo, told the Adamawa State High Court of Justice. The trial judge, Justice Benjamin Manji,…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says one of its officials has been abducted in Sagbama LGA of Bayelsa state. In a statement on Friday, Wilfred Ifogah, head of INEC voters’ registration in the state, said the official was kidnapped while waiting to board a boat at the jetty. He also said…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Independent National Electoral Commission has insisted that electronic collation of results is illegal in Nigeria. The commission said this against the backdrop of expectations that the results of Saturday’s off-cycle governorship elections in Imo, Kogi, and Bayelsa states would be transmitted electronically. The Chief Press Secretary to the INEC chairman, Rotimi…
LAGOS OCTOBER 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Supreme Court has said the two letters released by the Chicago State University (CSU) on the academic records of President Bola Tinubu are conflicting. This was mentioned on Monday morning by Justice John Okoro, Chairman of the 7-member panel hearing the application of Atiku Abubakar, Presidential Candidate of the Peoples…
By Sola Olumese LAGOS SEPTEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-I confess that last Wednesday, I feared I may be a masochist. I do not know what else one diagnoses after he spent most of 10 hours listening to the Presidential Election Petitions Court. I mean, I had other things to do, and I should have moved on to…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS) — A court ruling that it is not mandatory for Nigeria’s electoral commission to transmit voting results electronically has thrown into doubt the future use of technology in Nigeria’s elections. The ruling by the presidential elections petition court on Wednesday suggests the hope that innovation would foster transparency and justice in…
LAGOS JULY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Bola Tinubu has warned that nullifying the February 25 election that produced him as president, on account of the fact that he did not score 25% of the lawful votes cast during the election in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) could “lead to absurdity, chaos, anarchy and alteration of the very…
LAGOS JULY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the Adamawa governorship election, Aisha Dahiru, popularly called Binani has filed a lawsuit against the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). INEC declared null and void the purported declaration of Binani by the state Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) as the winner of the state…