LAGOS APRIL 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Usman Baba, has ordered that the Commissioner of Police on election duty in Adamawa State, Mohammed Barde, withdraw from the state with immediate effect. The IGP also ordered that the Commissioner of Police in charge of Gombe State, CP Etim Equa immediately proceed to Adamawa State…
LAGOS APRIL 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s electoral commission on Sunday halted announcement of results in Adamawa’s state governor election and said the declaration of Aisha Dahiru as the country’s first elected female state governor was null and void. Nigerians voted for state governors on March 11 but the election in Adamawa, a largely conservative Muslim state, was…
LAGOS APRIL 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-More prominent lawyers are lining up on the side of the argument championed by former President of the Nigerian Bar Association( NBA), Olisa Agbakoba (SAN) that a presidential candidate must obtain 25 percent in the Federal Capital Territory(FCT), as a requirement to be declared winner of an election at that category. The contentious issue which…
LAGOS APRIL 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) is in trouble after allegedly collecting princely sums as bribes from an out-going governor. The said REC, it was learnt, was taking orders from the governor contrary to his oath of office. The governor attempted to smuggle in the ballot papers he printed for the March 18 governorship…
LAGOS APRIL 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The electoral commission, INEC, deliberately withheld the real-time upload of presidential election results from polling units, information minister Lai Mohammed said, according to a report by the government-owned News Agency of Nigeria. Mr Mohammed said INEC’s decision to withhold the upload was because of a suspected cyberattack. “INEC, suspecting cyberattack, withheld the…
LAGOS APRIL 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has appointed nine Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SANs) to defend the results of the February 25 presidential election. The team of lawyers will be led by Abubakar Mahmoud, former president of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA). Other members of the legal team include Stephen Adehi (SAN),…
LAGOS APRIL 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A former President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Mr. Olisa Agbakoba, (SAN), has expressed his waning confidence in the Nigerian courts. Agbakoba blamed his discouragement on the recent judgments coming out of the courts, which according to him are baffling and unexpected from justices at that level. The senior lawyer who spoke as…
LAGOS MARCH 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has fixed Saturday, April 15 for governorship, and national and state assembly supplementary elections. INEC said this in a tweet on Monday less than one week after two governorship elections – Kebbi and Adamawa states were declared inconclusive. “Arising from its meeting held today, the Independent…
