LAGOS MARCH 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The United States Government says there is evidence that Nigerian security agents, including the Department of State Services and the Nigerian Army, intimidated voters, officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission and even election observers during the 2019 general elections. According to the US, this fuelled the impression that the Nigerian Army…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Federal High Court in Abuja has restrained Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from deregistering 35 political parties in the country. Justice Anwuli Chikere gave the interlocutory order on Monday at the hearing of a suit by some of the parties recently deregistered by the electoral body. The Judge said the electoral…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Independent National Electoral Commission on Sunday ruled out any fresh governorship election in Bayelsa State as requested by the All Progressives Congress. INEC’s Director of Voter Education and Publicity, Oluwole Osaze-Uzzi, in an interview with one of our correspondents in Abuja, dismissed the APC’s demand for a fresh governorship poll in…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Independent National Electoral Electoral Commission on Friday declared the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Douye Diri, as the winner of the November 16 governorship election held in Bayelsa State. The chairman of INEC, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, said the commission would give him the Certificate of Return in compliance with the…
LAGOS JANUAY 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has been forced to reject the results of Saturday’s rerun election in Essien Udim Local Government Area (LGA) of Akwa-Ibom. INEC said it was moved to reject the results of the rerun election in the area due to the fact that its officials were abducted and…
LAGOS JANUARY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Thursday, restrained the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Clerk of the National Assembly and Clerk of the Senate, from giving effect to the judgment that sacked Ifeanyi Ubah from the Senate. The court, in an interim order that was granted by Justice Taiwo Taiwo,…
LAGOS JANUARY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Indications emerged yesterday that the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, may have rejected the new candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress APC for Saturday’s re-run elections in Akwa Ibom North-West senatorial district. Following the appointment of its candidate, Sen. Godswill Akpabio as Minister for Niger Delta Affairs, APC had last month…
LAGOS JANUARY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has issued Certificate of Return to Sen. Hope Uzodinma as winner of March 19, 2019 governorship election in Imo, in compliance with the Supreme Court ruling. Speaking to newsmen shortly after the ceremony at INEC headquarters in Abuja, Uzodinma dedicated his victory to God and “functional…