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Jul

22

2022

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APGA SUPREME COURT JUDGEMENT: Arrest Victor Oye within 48-hours, Ohanaeze Youths Urges IGP … Says 2023 general election may not hold if…

CRIME, POLITICSapga, Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youths Council, Yakubu Mahmood

APGA SUPREME COURT JUDGEMENT: Arrest Victor Oye within 48-hours, Ohanaeze Youths Urges IGP ... Says 2023 general election may not hold if... Ohanaeze Youth Council, OYC has urged President Mohammadu Buhari to relief Prof. Yakubu Mahmood of his position as the Chairman of INEC, in order to avert looming damages that could strike the country in the forthcoming 2023 general election. Ohanaeze Youth Council, OYC, the apex Socio-cultural outh organization of Ndigbo has expressed acrimony over it termed a deliberate delay in according the due recognition to Chief Edozie Njoku, as the authentic National chairman of All Progressives Grand Alliance,…

Jun

17

2022

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2023: OYC Drags Mahmood Yakubu Festus Okoye, Over Plot To Disrupt Election

NATIONAL NEWS, POLITICS#2023Presidency, All progressives Grand Alliance, apga, Chief Ozonkpu Victor Oye, Independent National Electoral Commission, Mahmood Yakubu

2023: OYC Drags Mahmood Yakubu Festus Okoye, Over Plot To Disrupt Election By Charity Uwakwe Following the recent suspicious activities of Mahmood Yakubu, the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC), in connivance with a factional leader of APGA, Ohanaeze Youth Council, OYC has cried out to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Director of State Security Service (DSS) and Inspector General of Police urging to investigate the former. The leadership of the Apex Socio-cultural youth organization of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide who alerted the security agencies, reminded them of the imminent dangers of the conspiracies against Nigerians should…

Jun

05

2022

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2023: Delegates dissociate selves from participating in rescheduled Ebonyi PDP’s primary elections

POLITICS#EbonyiPDP, Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, PDP

2023: Delegates dissociate selves from rescheduled Ebonyi PDP's primary elections The three-man ad hoc delegates for the primary Elections of the People's Democraxtic Party (PDP) in Ebonyi State, Sunday, said it resolved not to be part of the rescheduled primaries for June 4 and 5 of the party in the State. The delegates in a press conference in Abakaliki on Sunday, decried the ongoing repeat of primary elections, noting that they would not be part of it or participate in the exercise. Recall that the party had on May 28 and 29 elected candidates on various positions of the party…

Mar

16

2022

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Breaking: Uncertainty in Ebonyi State as Commission, INEC, bans journalists from credential meetings in Ebonyi (Full Details)

Uncategorized#Ban, ebonyi state government, Independent National Electoral Commission

Breaking: Uncertainty in Ebonyi State as Commission, INEC, bans journalists from credential meetings in Ebonyi (Full Details) By Our Correspondent Our Correspondent in Ebonyi Emmanuel Nnaji report that the Administrative Secretary of INEC in Ebonyi State Clement Oha ordered that journalists should not be allowed in the meeting despite all efforts by newsmen to gain access Recall that a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja ordered in his judgment that INEC should conduct a fresh election following the sack of Ebonyi State Governor David Umahi Our Correspondent in Ebonyi Emmanuel Nnaji report that the Administrative Secretary of INEC…

Jul

16

2021

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Anambra 2021: INEC Removes Soludo, PDP From Governorship List, As Fighter Jets Miss Target, Kill Mother, 4 Children In Zamfara

POLITICSAll progressives Grand Alliance, Anambra Governorship election, Independent National Electoral Commission, Soludo Charles

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has omitted the names of Professor Charles Soludo of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA in their list of candidates and parties cleared to contest the Anambra Governorship election. The perceived deliberate omission was discovered in the list of eligible candidates and parties for the 2021 gubernatorial election, as published on forthcoming Friday 16, 2021, by the Commission. Also omitted was the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the November 6 2021 election. In the list published on INEC’s website, APGA’S Chukwuma Umeoji’s name replaced that of Soludo who won the governorship primary of the…

Jul

03

2021

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INEC to commence physical voter registration July 19

POLITICSelection, Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC

The Imo Resident Electoral Commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Francis Ezeonu, has announced that the physical continuous voter registration exercise (CVR) will commence on July 19. He disclosed this while briefing journalists in Owerri on Thursday. Ezeonu said that the exercise would start at INEC state and local government offices first and continue at other centres at a later date. The commissioner said the commencement of the exercise was delayed as a result of the security challenges across the country. He said that although the attacks on INEC offices across the country had stopped, yet the…

Jun

14

2021

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Ubani petitions NASS over Onochie’s Nomination As INEC REC *Says nomination contravenes 152 of the Electoral Act

LEGAL, NATIONAL NEWSall progressives Congress, Barr. Ubani Monday, Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, petition

Dr. Monday Ubani has petitioned the Senate Committee on Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, over the nomination of President Muhammadu Buhari’s special adviser on social media, Lauretta Onochie as INEC Commissioner, describing same as a a clear contravention of Section 152 of the Electoral Act. The Chairman of Nigerian Bar Association Section on Public Interest and Development Law, NBA/SPIDEL reminded that Electoral Act provided that no registered member of a Political Party shall be eligible for or be appointed to carry out duties of a returning officer, an electoral officer, the presiding officer or Poll Clerk. Ubani stated this in…