NewsPol

The Independent National Electoral Commission ( INEC ) has finally admitted Zamfara state All Progressive Congress (APC) candidates into the 2019 general election. This follows the Court of Appeal ruling on Thursday that the electoral commission should accept candidates of the party. The state APC was barred from presenting candidates owing to an internal crisis, […]

Lagos State has the highest number of Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs) collected by registered voters in the country, the Independent National Electoral Commission revealed Thursday. Out of the 6,570,291 registered voters in the state, Lagos voters collected 5,531,389 PVCs. The state is followed by Kano, with 4,696,747 PVCs collected out of the 5,457,747 registered voters. […]Read More

Two All Progressives Congress (APC) members were reportedly injured Thursday during an alleged attack on the convoy of Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, in the Kwara State capital, Ilorin. Prof Osinbajo was in Ilorin in continuation of his door-to-door campaign with residents of the state ahead of next Saturday’s polls. Though, the details of the incident […]

Barely 24 hours to polls opening in presidential and national assembly elections; and despite the fact that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has refused to accept the list of APC candidates for the 2019 general elections, the Court of Appeal, Abuja Division Thursday night upturned the decision of the Abuja Division of the Federal […]

The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, has disclosed that card readers would shut down automatically by 10 pm on the day of elections, “in order to forestall any illegal use of the card readers.” Yakubu made the revelations in Abuja at a briefing on the progress made by the […]

The Nigeria Labor Congress (NLC) has said President Muhammadu Buhari’s comment on dealing summarily with ballot box snatchers or arsonists in upcoming elections is not a license to kill by security forces. NLC President, Ayuba Wabba, stated this in a statement yesterday in Abuja. Wabba urged INEC to be fair, impartial and just, to all […]

A Lagos High court has issued a bench warrant for the arrest of the former Super Eagles Captain Austin Jay Jay Okocha for snubbing the court over why he failed to pay his income taxes.  Okocha was dragged before the court by the Lagos State Ministry of Justice for failure to submit returns of his […]

President Muhammadu Buhari will on Friday broadcast to the nation at 7 am. The broadcast will be repeated at 9 pm. A statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, enjoined all television, radio stations and other electronic media outlets to hook up to the network services of the Nigerian Television Authority […]

  The title of this article is a little bit misleading because it suggests, rather wrongly, that Nigerians ever had confidence in the electoral system. Truth be told, they never did – which is why most elections in the country since independence have been contentious and marred with allegations and counter allegations of rigging. I […]

Normal.dotm 0 0 1 808 4611 www.aso.rocks search engine 38 9 5662 12.0 0 false 18 pt 18 pt 0 0 false false false /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:”Table Normal”; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:””; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:”Times New Roman”; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:”Times New Roman”; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;} The […]Read More

Nigeria’s Federal Government has declared Friday, 22 February as a public holiday, to enable citizens prepare for Saturday’s presidential and parliamentary elections.  The Ministry of Interior excludes bankers and those offering essential services across the nation,, according to a statement.  “The work-free day is to enable citizens return to their polling units for the reschedule […]

The governing All Progressives Congress (APC) has expressed grave concern over a purportedly leaked security report alleging that the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) plan to deploy $111 million for vote-buying across the states under the pretence of “logistics” during next Saturday’s general elections.   APC said the plan raises new fears ahead of the forthcoming polls. […]