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A LEGAL OPINION ON INEC’s INTERVENTION IN ADAMAWA REC’s USURPATIVE RETURN OF MADAM AISHA BINANI AS GOVERNOR-ELECT

NewsDeskNgApr 18, 2023April 18, 20230

By Sylvester Udemezue There was a Punch Newspapers’ breaking news earlier on 17 April 2023, reporting that “APC Binani declared winner of Adamawa Governorship Election”. According to the Punch, “The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Sunday [17 April 2023] morning declared Senator Aishatu Dahiru Binani the winner of the Adamawa...

Quotable Quotes: Public Statements By INEC And Its Chairman Before The 2023 Elections, On Mandatory E-Transmission Of Results From Polling Units

NewsDeskNgApr 18, 2023April 18, 20230

By Sylvester Udemezue MEMORY VERSES: INEC(A). “It is more proper that law should govern than any one of the citizens: upon the same principle, if it is advantageous to place the supreme power in some particular persons, they should be appointed to be only guardians, and the servants of the...

10th Assembly: Opposition members-elect denounce purported coalition of 283 members on zoning

NewsDeskNgApr 18, 2023April 18, 20230

…say no group of lawmakers met anywhere to take stand Some newly elected House of Reps members from the opposition parties have distanced themselves from the purported zoning arrangement of the All Progressives Congress for the position of Speaker. The lawmakers-elect, under the aegis of The Patriotic Forum, also denied...

Actor Tchidi Chikere Remarries After Two Failed Marriages

NewsDeskNgApr 17, 2023April 18, 20230

Nollywood actor, Tchidi Chikere, has tied the knot for the third time. The actor made this known via his Instagram account on Monday. Chikere posted a photo of himself and his wife, showing her engagement ring, and stated that he is okay and happy. He wrote, “Married! We did it...

Adamawa REC playing script of INEC Chairman – Atiku’s Aide

NewsDeskNgApr 17, 2023April 18, 20230

The Special Assistant on Public Communication to Waziri Atiku Abubakar, Mr. Phrank Shaibu, says the electoral misconduct perpetrated by the Adamawa Resident Electoral Commission, Hudu Yunusa-Ari, is nothing different from what the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Mahmood Yakubu, did during the Presidential poll. Yunusa-Ari had on Sunday...

GPMI tasks incoming administration on justice, fairness

NewsDeskNgApr 17, 2023April 18, 20230

…calls for extension of service chiefs tenure Dr Mike Uyi, the President General, Global Peace Movement International, GPMI UK has called on the incoming administration of the President-elect, Sen Bola Tinubu, to ensure justice and fairness to all Nigerians. Uyi made the call in a press release on Monday in...

Observers Laud Kogi APC Guber Primary As Credible, Fair

NewsDeskNgApr 17, 2023April 18, 20230

A group of over 500 independent observers has rated the direct primary elections conducted by the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kogi State to be free, fair, and credible. The Coalition of Independent Election Observers which made this known in a report described the exercise as a reference point in...

Disaster Averted At AA Rano Fuel Station As Fire Guts Two Cars

NewsDeskNgApr 17, 2023April 18, 20230

Tragedy was averted over the weekend at One-Man Village, a suburb of Abuja, as good Samaritans pushed away a Peugeot J5 van which caught fire while queueing to buy petrol at AA Rano mega fuel station there. At the end of the day, the Peugeot J5 van and a Honda...

Why Nigerians Should Embrace Paying Taxes

NewsDeskNgApr 17, 2023April 18, 20230

In all societies – both ancient and modern, paying taxes has remained a means through which citizens reciprocate the government’s social services to them. Of course governments all over the world exist to render services to the people by providing social services such as infrastructure and other developmental projects for...

LP cautions Obi, Otti against attending planned NEC by Abure

NewsDeskNgApr 17, 2023April 18, 20230

-says it is contempt of court National Working Committee (NWC) of Labour Party (LP) has urged the presidential candidate of the party, Peter Obi and Alex Otti, the Governor-elect of Abia State to distance themselves from the planned emergency National Executive Meeting (NEC) summoned by the embattled leadership of Julius...