LAGOS MARCH 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Independent National Electoral Commission has vowed to punish its officials, including ad-hoc or collation personnel, who may have been found wanting in the conduct of the Saturday, February 25 Presidential and National Assembly Elections. INEC chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, disclosed this on Saturday in Abuja at a meeting with Resident Electoral…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Six states of the federation; Adamawa, Akwa-Ibom, Bayelsa, Delta, Edo and Sokoto have dragged the federal government before the Supreme Court over the conduct, collation and announcement of the February 25, 2023 presidential and National Assembly elections. Naija News understands that the six states are asking the Supreme Court to declare that…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The U.S. has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to address technical hitches reportedly associated with the use of Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) before the governorship and state assembly elections on March 11. Ned Price, Spokesperson for the State Department, in a statement, said Nigerians were clearly within their…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Independent National Electoral Commission has so far uploaded 147,578 results from 176, 846 polling units, five days after the presidential election. The figure represents 83 per cent of results from all the polling units. As of the time of filing this report, the electronic transmission of results was still ongoing. Nigerians…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Independent National Electoral Commission, Sokoto office has declared all the National Assembly elections in the state inconclusive. The spokesman of the Commission in the state, Dr. Shamsuddeen Haliru, disclosed this to our correspondent. He said, “all the 11 Federal Constituencies and the three Senatorial Districts have not been returned. Therefore, Supplementary…
LAGOS MARCH 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Independent National Electoral Commission has presented the Certificates of Return to the winner of the 2023 presidential election held on February 25, Bola Tinubu, and his vice presidential candidate, Kashim Shettima. The presentation of the CoR was done by the chairman of INEC, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, Wednesday afternoon at the International…
LAGOS MARCH 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-There was disquiet in Abuja, the nation’s Federal Capital Territory after the declaration of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu as the winner of the February 25 presidential election. Tinubu, candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) was declared the winner by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in the early hours of Wednesday….
LAGOS FEBRUARY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has called for the voiding of election results where the BVAS and Servers were manipulated or rendered inactive. In a statement Monday evening, Obasanjo said results that were brought outside BVAS and Server were not true reflection of the will of Nigerians who had made their individual choice….