LAGOS JUNE 24H (NEWRANGERS)-Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmood Yakubu, has said that there will be no use of the electronic voting system in the 2019 general elections. Professor Yakubu said this on Friday while addressing participants at the International Press Institute world conference which took place in Abuja. “There is…
LAGOS MAY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-With less than one year to the 2019 general elections, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has taken delivery of 123,848 permanent voters cards in Plateau State. According to INEC, reports from its field officers have revealed a smooth exercise in all the 17 Local Government Area in Plateau State. The Head…
LAGOS APRIL 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Senator Dino Melaye has reacted to the failed attempt to recall him from the Senate saying he will continue to stand by the truth. In a couple of tweet on Sunday, April 29, the embattled senator representing Kogi west appreciated the effort of his people to keep him in the senate. He…
LAGOS APRIL 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The recall election for Dino Melaye as the lawmaker for Kogi West Senatorial District has failed, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced. Only five per cent of the electorate turned out in an exercise that required 51 per cent majority to succeed. Of the 189,870 signatories, only 18,742 were verified…
LAGOS APRIL 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Voters in Kabba/Bunu/Ijumu Federal Constituency in Kogi have shunned the ongoing verification exercise organised by INEC to authenticate the signatures of voters seeking to recall Sen. Dino Melaye (APC/Kogi West). Journalists monitoring the exercise in Mr Melaye’s Kogi West Senatorial District, observed that the polling units were empty, with many people claiming…
LAGOS APRIL 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A coalition of over 400 civil society organisations under the aegis of Transition Monitoring Group, has called on Nigerians to be vigilant during the 2019 general elections to avoid rigging and other forms of electoral irregularities. The organisation also supported plans by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to monitor the source…
By Jerome-Mario Utomi LAGOS MARCH 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-As the nation races toward 2019 general election, many strange things are happening daily in our political space; some heartening and others, undesirable. Particularly echoing on this wavelength is the demand for a robust political partisanship. A move that is aimed at terminating the dearth of leadership that has…
LAGOS MARC 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Facebook will be helping Nigeria with its upcoming 2019 presidential elections. This comes after a team from Facebook, led by Ebele Okobi (Facebook’s Public Policy Director for Afrika) visited and met with Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to explore various ways in which they could work together on voter education and…