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The Independent National Electoral Commission INEC has lamented the high number of uncollected Permanent Voters Card PVCs, putting the figure at about 20 million. The National Commissioner of INEC, FCT, Nasarawa, Kaduna and Plateau States, Mohammed Haruna, disclosed this yesterday at the launch of a campaign to drive the collection of PVCs and increase participation in the ongoing continuous voter registration exercise. He stated that statistics by INEC in 2019 showed that […]

The Nigerian Army has dismissed claims that some Nigerian villages were attacked by Ambazonia militants, a separatist group in Cameroon. The Director of Army Public Relations,Brigadier General Onyema Nwachukwu,said although the military authorities confirmed that the militants stormed some communities on Sunday, the attack did not happen on Nigerian territory. Nwachukwu disclosed that contrary to the misinformation, their troops deployed at Danare received information on Sunday morning about the said […]

A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos presided over by Justice Ambrose Lewis-Allagoa has held that the Nigerian Broadcasting Commission NBC acted beyond its powers in seeking to regulate the practice of advertising in Nigeria contrary to the provisions of the extant Advertising Practitioners Regulation Act of 2004. The court also declared that the NBC lacks the power to prohibit exclusivity on privately acquired intellectual property right in programme contents of a […]

The Supreme Court yesterday reserved judgement in a suit filed by President Muhammadu Buhari and the Attorney General of the Federation, seeking an interpretation of Section 84 subsection 12 of the electoral act, 2022. The seven-man panel led by Justice Mohammed Dattijo, says the date will be communicated to the parties involved in the suit, after taking arguments from parties and adopting their processes. The All Progressive Grand Alliance APGA, and […]