LAGOS MARCH 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The European Union Election Observation Mission to Nigeria 2023 on Monday knocked the Independent National Electoral Commission for failing to live up to expectations in Nigeria’s electoral process. The Chief Observer, EU Election Observation Mission, Barry Andrews, in his preliminary statement of the EU EOM on the governorship and state Houses of…
LAGOS MARCH 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Four agents of a political party whose identity was not revealed have been nabbed by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency in Ogun State. The development was revealed in a terse statement by the NDLEA in a terse statement on its social media handle. In the statement in the early…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has been urged to track all money transferred 48hrs to election day through the commercial banks. A Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), Speak Out Africa Initiative, gave the advice on Thursday in Abuja. Kenneth Eze, the executive director of the NGO, said this would help in possible identification…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Ahead of Saturday’s presidential election, members of the Labour Party and supporters of its presidential candidate, Peter Obi, on Wednesday, stormed the headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in Abuja to canvas for a free, fair and credible poll. The group, under the umbrella of Citizen Advocates 4 Labour Party…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A presidential candidate for the February 25 presidential election has been slammed for allegedly mopping up the scarce new naira notes and sharing to his supporters with a plan to induce voters during elections. Calling on voters to resist vote buying, top official of the Nigerian Security Printing And Minting (NSPM) told…
LAGOS MAY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Transition Monitoring Group, TMG, has berated the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, for extending the deadline for the conduct of primary elections and submission of the list of nominated candidates for the 2023 general elections, from 4th to 9th of June 2022. Chairman of the foremost election monitoring group, Comrade Auwal…
LAGOS JUNE 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A civil rights organisation, Coalition Against Corrupt Christians (CACA) on Monday expressed fears over the forthcoming presidential election of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) which, it said, could be marred by vote-buying. The organisation alleged that its findings have revealed that the President of CAN, Rev. Samson Supo Ayokunle, have been…
LAGOS MARCH 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Justice Sa’ad Moh’d of the Gombe State High Court has convicted a councillor in Bolari East Local Government Area, Gombe, Ishiyaku Garba, of vote-buying. Garba was arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on three counts bordering on bribery. Acting on intelligence reports, the EFCC had arrested the convict at Bolari…