LAGOS FEBRUARY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)- The Peter Obi Support Network (POSN) has raised alarm over what it described as obvious and deliberate moves to compromise the on-going Presidential and National elections. It charged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and security agencies to intervene immediately so as to prevent crisis. POSN in a statement issued on…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Labour Party (LP) in Lagos State on Thursday condemned INEC for omitting party’s logo in the Senatorial and House of Representatives’ ballot papers ahead of the Saturday’s General Elections. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that INEC on Wednesday took delivery of sensitive materials for the Presidential and National…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-As Nigerians head to the polls on Saturday, 87.2 million voters have been cleared to participate in the crucial exercise. Data released by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Thursday show that 93.5 million Nigerians were registered to participate in the presidential and national assembly election as well as the governorship…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A public policy think tank, the NEO AFRICANA CENTRE (NAC), has charged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to give Nigeria free, fair and credible elections in the February 25 presidential and National Assembly electoral contest. The Centre said that this is the least the people expect from the commission after five…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Oyo state Resident Electoral Commissioner ( REC) of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Dr Adeniran Rahmon Tella, has confirmed that the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has released the cash needed to offset the payment of ad-hoc staff. He made this known at a press conference with journalists in the…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke of the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has stopped the Independent National Electoral Commission from engaging the services of the chairman of the Lagos State Parks Management Committee, Musiliu Akinsanya, popularly known as MC Oluomo, to distribute election materials in the state pending the hearing and determination of…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Engr. Bashir I. Bashir, who was said to have dropped his governorship ambition on the platform of Labour Party and defected to the All Progressives Congress, APC, never belonged to the party, the State Chairman, Alhaji Muhammadu Abdullahi Raji has said. “In fact he has never at any time been on…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A journalist with an online news platform, Swift Reporters, Adewole Kehinde, last Saturday sued the Independent National Electoral Commission over the denial of access to his voter card. Printouts and text messages exchanged with the commission’s official sighted by our correspondent show that Kehinde, a publisher with the news agency, transferred his…