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 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), on Tuesday, informed the National Assembly Elections Petition Tribunal, sitting in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, that the figures being bandied by the APC in the Akwa Ibom North-west Senatorial district election, Senator Godswill Akpabio were fake. Akpabio, a petitioner who is challenging the victory of Senator…
LAGOS JUNE 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its presidential candidate in the February 23, 2019 election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, have vowed to appeal against Monday’s ruling of the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal dismissing their application for permission to access and inspect the central server said to have been used by the Independent National…
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 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Chairman of the Independent Electoral Commission (INEC), Attahiru Jega, has denied making a statement on the existence of a server during his time as head of the commission. Mr Jega, in a circulated comment, was quoted as saying the INEC server existed and is ‘functional’, even in his own time. The…
LAGOS JUNE 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) received N1.47 billion to replace and maintain computer servers for use during the 2019 general elections, PREMIUM TIMES has confirmed. It is not clear though how the servers, which store computer data, were used during the polls. But the finding raises fresh concerns over the commission’s…