Bayelsa State Governor, Senator Douye Diri, has said the hitch-free conduct of the recent Ijaw National Congress (INC) election indicated that Nigeria can hold rancour-free national elections. Diri stated this on Friday during the inauguration of the new INC leadership at the Ijaw House in Yenagoa. He urged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to…
LAGOS APRIL 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Independent National Electoral Commission has fixed Saturday, February 18 for the 2023 general elections in the country. INEC Chairman, Prof Mahmood Yakubu made this known on Wednesday during a one-day public hearing on the National Electoral Offences Commission (Establishment) Bill 2021, organised by the Senate Committee on INEC. He said, “By…
LAGOS MARCH 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced the immediate suspension of Saturday’s House of Assembly bye -election in Ekiti State following bloody attacks that greeted the exercise. Dr Tella Adeniran, the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in Ekiti State, made this known in a statement issued in Ado Ekiti, and also confirmed…
LAGOS MARCH 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The attention of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has been drawn to a report currently circulating in the social media, in which the Executive Chairman, Mr. Abdulrasheed Bawa, is quoted as having advised the Independent National Electoral Commission, not to sell forms to any aspirant who has a file with…
LAGOS JANUARY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Independent National Electoral Commission is considering making the National Identity Number a precondition for registering voters when the continuous voter registration exercise commences in a few weeks, The PUNCH has learnt. A national commissioner at INEC disclosed this during an interview with The PUNCH on Tuesday. He said the NIN would…
LAGOS JANUARY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)- Musician Seun Kuti has revealed he will be registering the Movement of The People (MOP) as a political party. The 38-year-old shared a picture of an official letter written to Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to demand the requirements for registration in an Instagram post on Thursday. The letter signed by…
LAGOS DECEMBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Reacting to the APC NEC meeting, the opposition PDP said Nigerians ought to start celebrating the demise of the party, which it described as the “tormentor” of Nigerians. In a statement titled: ‘PDP congratulates Nigerians as APC, their tormentor, finally fizzles’, signed by the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, in Abuja…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Chief Magistrates’ Court in Zone 6, Wuse, Abuja, yesterday convicted a member of the House of Representatives, Hon. Victor Mela, of lying on oath in his Form CF001 submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as a candidate in the 2019 general elections. The chief magistrate convicted the lawmaker representing…