President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the military and law enforcement agencies to deal “ruthlessly” with anyone caught trying to disrupt the rescheduled February 23 presidential and National Assembly elections. According to Punch, the President, who is seeking reelection on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, warned that anyone trying to snatch ballot boxes would […]
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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has expressed concern over President Muhammadu Buhari’s directive to security agencies to be ruthless to anyone who try to snatch ballot boxes in the forthcoming elections. The party expressed the concern in statement issued by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan on Monday in Abuja. Ologbondiyan discribed the directive as […]
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The Independent National Electoral Commission has permitted the resumption of campaign activities by political parties. In a statement signed by INEC’s National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Mr Festus Okoye, the electoral body said it approved that campaigns can resume. “In the meanwhile, after consultation with the political parties, the Commission has approved that […]
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Mind slavery, mental slavery, mental serfdom, is an unsung epidemic. An epidemic whose effect is worse than any physical epidemic. Its effect on the society is one which we can not begin to quantify, or properly qualify. ‘Tied down by themselves’ Mental serfdom, lack of independent thought, holds down many individuals, many families, whole ethnic […]
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Lagos lawyer, Mr Femi Falana SAN, has criticised the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, for postponing the presidential and National Assembly elections scheduled for yesterday. In a statement on Sunday, he said the reasons given by the body were not known to law. According to him: “Any postponement of elections on account of logistical or […]
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INEC Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, speaks during the announcement of the postponement of the 2019 presidential election at the commission’s headquarters in Abuja. Kola Sulaimon / AFP About thirteen hours ago, I conveyed to Nigerians the decision of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to reschedule the 2019 general elections by one week. Presidential and […]
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By Dr Zubair Abdulahi The digestive system helps convert our meals into usable forms for the cells in our body. This is necessary for good health and well-being. When there is an injury or tear to body surfaces lined by cells, it is called an ulcer. These sores may be found in any part of […]
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Policemen walk past electoral materials being offloaded at the headquarters of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Kano, Nigeria on February 14, 2019. PIUS UTOMI EKPEI / AFP • Airlines, Agencies Lose N1.8b: Local Operators Ground Operations• Disruption In Business Cost $1.5billion Loss – LCCI When the obviously ruffled Professor Mahmood Yakubu faced the media […]
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say action shows INEC ‘gross incompetence’, ‘total irresponsibility’, ‘gross abuse of statutory powers’ Democracy under threat in Nigeria National Assembly should probe electoral body Lawyers, yesterday, weighed in on the shock postponement of the presidential and National Assembly elections by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), and concluded that the electoral umpire acted beyond its powers. According to them, while […]
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says this sloppiness must stop, Nigerians are ready to perform civic duty demands free, fair elections By Banji Ayoola The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, South West chapter, has criticised as flimsy the reasons given by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, for its last minute postponement of the Presidential and National Assembly elections. The elections […]
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