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The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC said a total of 146,913 domestic and international observers will be deployed for the 2023 general elections. The INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu disclosed this at the INEC briefing for observers of the 2023 general election in Abuja on Tuesday. According to the INEC boss, the number of observers is the largest in the …

Stakeholders at one-day legal roundtable/symposium by a social advocacy organisation, held in Port Harcourt,  Rivers state, have observed that the criminal justice system of Nigeria is at the verge of collapsing. The stakeholders decried the deteriorating state of the institutions in Nigeria, stressing the urgent need to salvage the country of anything that could lead to the collapse of legal system, …

“After due diligence and critical assessment of the 17 presidential candidates and what they offer and after consulting our grand patron, former President Olusegun Obasanjo, we decided that the Obi-Datti movement is a worthy cause to endorse.” A faction of the Action Democratic Congress (ADC) on Monday in Abuja adopted Peter Obi, Labour Party’s (LP) presidential candidate as its candidate for the …

The Court of Appeal sitting in Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State, has affirmed Biodun Oyebanji of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, as the winner of the June 18th governorship election in the state. Delivering the judgment, on Tuesday, a three-member panel of the court threw out the appeal filed by the candidate of the Social Democratic Party, Segun Oni, for …

Russian President Vladimir Putin suspended Moscow’s participation in the last remaining nuclear arms control pact with the U.S., announcing the move Tuesday in a bitter speech where he made clear he would not change his strategy in the war in Ukraine. In his long-delayed state-of-the-nation address, Putin cast his country — and Ukraine — as victims of Western double-dealing and said …

…NANS pledges 20million votes for Atiku Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has charged youths in the state not to mortgage their future by selling their votes in the forthcoming general election. Rather, he implored them to come out en masse to vote for only credible and competent leaders who have the experience and capacity to save Nigeria from its …

Edo State Governor, His Excellency, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has extended the free bus service by all Edo City Transport Service (ECTS) buses till Friday, February 24, 2023. The extension became necessary because the cash crunch experienced by the people in the state has remained unabated, according to a statement released today by Crusoe Osagie, Special Adviser to the Governor on …

Benin City, Nigeria – Nigerians from all walks of life have been urged to use their voter’s card as a revolutionary tool on February 25, 2023. This call was made by the Chairman, Media & Publicity Committee of the Labour Party Presidential Campaign Council (LP-PCC) Edo State, Comrade Igbotako Nowinta, in a press statement he released on Monday. The campaign …

ISWAP • SERAP sues Buhari over ‘unlawful’ ban of old N500, N1,000 notes President Muhammadu Buhari’s decision to redesign the naira, as part of efforts to tame terrorism in Nigeria, is unlikely to yield desired results, says an investigative report released by public policy research group, Nextier. The report advised that more pertinent is government’s political will to prosecute already …

He said the campaign was borne out of the desire to change the narrative, by enlightening residents of the state, especially the youths, on the gains of desisting from electoral malpractices. He advised youths not to be misled into electoral thuggery and vote buying as a result of the current cash crunch experienced across the country, but to show steadfastness …