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*Win Governorship elections, immortalize #EndSARS victims on street names Ahead of the governorship and House of Assembly elections, rescheduled for Saturday March 18, 2023, the presidential candidate of Labour Party, Mr. Peter Obi, has again appealed to Nigerians to vote massively and decisively for all candidates of the party across the country. Obi made the entreaty on Monday at the …

Edo voters have been urged to come out en masse on Saturday, March 18 to reject lawmakers who were voted into the Edo State House of Assembly by their constituents in 2016 but absconded and failed to be inaugurated thereby denying their constituents quality representation in the Assembly. A pro-development group based in Benin City, the Concerned Edo Citizens, at …

Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Peter Obi said he has no grudges with the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu regarding his declaration by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC as the winner of the 2023 presidential election. Obi stated this while speaking in an interwiew with Arise TV on Monday. He said, “I have no issues with Tinubu, he …

While some logistics challenges, malpractices and violence in some locations undermined the election, PREMIUM TIMES believes it is excessive and inaccurate to describe the exercise as totally flawed. Reactions from across the world have followed the 25 February presidential election, which produced old guard politician, Bola Tinubu, as Nigeria’s next leader. Mr Tinubu was the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), …

When the idea of introducing the Bimodal Voters Accreditation System into the electoral process was first mooted by the National Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, it created a wave of mixed feelings among the people. The BVAS machine is a device for the accreditation of voters through biometric capture, uploading of polling results, and other …

The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Mr.  Godwin Emefiele has debunked news on him launching fresh plot on the President-elect, Mr.Bola Ahmed Tinubu. He attributed such a news story which was published in today’s edition of The Nation newspaper  as fake. The Governor disclosed this today in a statement signed by the Acting Director Corporate Communications, CBN, …

The Independent National Electoral Commission on Sunday said over 170,000 polling unit results of the February 25 Presidential and National Assembly elections have been uploaded on its Result Viewing Portal. INEC National Commissioner, Festus Okoye, stated this on Channels Television’s Programme, Sunday Politics. “As you are aware, we are reconfiguring the Bimodal Voter Registration Systems for purposes of the governorship …

Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, has told President Muhammadu Buhari that the much-touted benefits of the naira redesign policy can never justify the damage to his credentials as a democrat and a stickler for the rule of law. ACF’s statement came on a day Ohanaeze Ndigbo expressed a similar sentiment, asking the federal government to implement the Supreme Court judgement which …

The ongoing reconfiguration of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System machines used during the presidential and National Assembly elections on 25 February will end on Monday, The PUNCH has learnt. The Independent National Electoral Commission had postponed the governorship and state Houses of Assembly elections scheduled to hold on March 11 to March 18 in order to be able to reconfigure the BVAS. …

Anambra State governor Chukwuma Soludo said the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has directed banks to dispense old naira notes. Soludo said CBN governor Godwin Emefiele made the disclosure to him in a phone conversation on Sunday night. “Commercial banks have been directed by the Central Bank to dispense old currency notes and to also receive same as deposits from …