The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, yesterday, vowed not to participate in the 2019 general elections. President of the union, Professor Biodun Ogunyemi disclosed this in a bulletin. This came as the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, said that ad hoc staff, to be deployed for the conduct of the 2019 elections would undergo […]
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Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has formally presented the national register of voters to the nation’s 91 political parties, with a registered voting population of a little over 84 million. Presenting the register at yesterday’s quarterly consultative meeting with political parties in Abuja, chairman of the commission, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, also assured Nigerians that there […]
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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Monday raised alarm over a new method of vote buying being devised to undermine the voting process. INEC Chairman Mahmood Yakubu disclosed this in Abuja at the presentation of the Voter Register for the 2019 general election to political parties. Yakubu said that the commission had received credible […]
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As part of its reforms to ensure a credible 2019 general elections, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it has abolished the separate incident form. The chairman of the commission, disclosed this in Abuja on Monday while presenting the national voters register to leaders of the political parties. He said the commission has “modified” […]
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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it will train over one million electoral staff and ad-hoc personnel for the conduct of the 2019 general elections. Mr Solomon Soyebi, Chairman, Board of Electoral Institute (BEI), made the disclosure on Monday in Calabar. He stated this during a training workshop for State Training Officers and Assistant […]
Read More The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, yesterday, urged those yet to collect their Permanent Voters Cards, PVCs, to do so now to avoid rush. In a statement by the Commission’s spokesman in Lagos, Mr. Femi Akinbiyi noted that the last batch of the PVCs have been released to all Local Government INEC offices across Nigeria. […]
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The presidential candidate of the Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN), Dr. Obiageli Ezekwesil, wants the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mamoud Yakubu, to reverse the recent deployment of Mrs. Amina Zakari, as chairperson of INEC’s Results Collation Centre in next month’s presidential election. Ezekwesili, in a statement yesterday said “The […]
Read More The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has expressed worry over the large number of uncollected Permanent Voters Card (PVCs) in Plateau state. Mallam Halilu Pai, the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) at a meeting with representatives of political parties in Jos, the state capital, said “43 days to the commencement of the general election, we have […]
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As traders of the popular Kaduna textile market, Kasuwan Barci endorsed his second term bid, Kaduna State Governor Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai on Friday said, there were over a million Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs) yet to be collected in the state. He, however, urged the traders to help in sensitizing their members and the general public […]
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Former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank, has asked the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Chairman to resign his appointment for attending a clandestine meeting and plotting to compromise the forthcoming presidential election in favour of Buhari through the appointment of Buhari’s neice to oversee the collation of […]
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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has taken a major step in its preparation for the February 16 presidential election and others. It inaugurated yesterday two ad-hoc committees for Electoral Logistics and Collation Centre. Air Vice Marshal (AVM) Ahmed Mu’azu is the chairman of the Electoral Logistics Committee. Mrs. Amina Zakari is the chairperson of […]
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The Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission to adhere to its promise not to use incident forms for the 2019 general election. Abubakar, in a statement issued by his Media Adviser, Mr Paul Ibe on Thursday in Abuja, said that he was […]
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