LAGOS JULY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Saturday suggested it has the capacity to transmit election results electronically from remote areas across the country. Lawmakers in both chambers of the National Assembly had been at loggerheads over electronic transmission of results earlier in the week. The House was thrown into disarray on…
LAGOS JUNE 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-For violating the Electoral Act 2010 as amended, the rulling All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) has been ruled out of the November 6, 2021 governorship poll in Anambra State. According to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), which dropped the hint, yesterday, in Abuja, APGA’s disqualification followed the party’s failure to comply…
LAGOS MAY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Lagos lawyer and activist, Chief (Barr.) Malcolm Omirhobo has staged a one-man protest at the Electoral Independence Commission (INEC) Headquarters, Abuja against the purported plan of the electoral body to use National Identification Number (NIN) as a data base for the conduct of 2023 general election. Omirhobo who addressed journalist at the…
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…
