LAGOS SEPTEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Not Too Young To Perform (NTYTP) Group, a formidable young people-driven leadership development initiative has rejected the none use of cellphones at polling stations or voting cubicles by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), urging the commission to devise better ways of curbing vote buying. The body also described the high…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said it was not banning the use of Smartphone around the polling unit areas, but the moment a prospective voter entered voting cubicle to cast his or her vote. The Chief Press Secretary to INEC Chairman, Rotimi Oyekanmi, made the declaration in an interview with the…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-About five days to the Osun State governorship election, the National Rescue Movement (NRM) on Monday gave the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), 24 hours within which it should include the name of its candidate, Jumoke Lawoyin, whose name has been omitted from the list approved by the commission. Should INEC fail…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) hinted yesterday that it might be compelled to suspend the 2019 general election following threats to violence by some politicians in the country. Chairman of the commission, Prof Mahmood Yakubu, who stated this, was reacting to some disturbing videos of political campaigns in the social media…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A former National Commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Lai Olurode has said that President Muhammadu Buhari should have rejected the N45m approved by the All Progressives Congress (APC) as cost of presidential nomination form. He said the form is not only costly but has shut out other aspirants…
LAGOS AUGUST 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The All Progressives Congress (APC) has been declared the winner of the 27 Local Government Chairmanship seats in Imo State. Ethelbert Ibebuchi, Chairman of the State Independent Electoral Commission, disclosed this in Owerri, the Imo State capital, on Sunday. Ibebuchi announced the results of the elections at the Commission’s headquarters in Owerri,…
LAGOS AUGUST 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission on Friday denied reports it budgeted six billion Naira to feed the Police during next year’s elections. The 2019 general elections budget of N189.2bn is subject to approval by the National Assembly and has been pending due to ongoing recess of both legislative chambers. But, INEC has…
LAGOS AUGUST 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)–The Independent National Electoral Commission says the 23 newly registered political parties will not be allowed to participate in the September 22, 2018 governorship election in Osun State as the deadline for submission of candidates has passed. This is just as INEC announced that all political parties could on Saturday begin holding…