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INEC raises concerns about security challenges in the country ahead of 2023 general elections

The Independent National Electoral Commission INEC has raised concerns about the security challenges in the country ahead of the 2023 general elections in about nine months’ time but dispelled fears that the elections might not hold due to security threats. The Chairman of INEC, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, in his remarks yesterday in Abuja at the second quarterly meeting of the Inter-Agency Consultative Committee on Election Security ICCES, believes there is […]

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President Buhari Condemns Mob Attack oN Deborah Samuel For Alleged Blasphemy

President Muhammadu Buhari has strongly condemned the resort to self-help by the mob in Sokoto, which resulted in violence, destruction and killing of a second-year student of Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto, Deborah Samuel. Deborah, was accused of making a social media post that blasphemed the Holy Prophet Muhammad, a crime for which a mob, mostly made up of fellow students, killed her. Reacting to the incident, Buhari said the […]

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The National Executive Council of the Peoples Democratic Party has opted to throw the contest for its presidential ticket open.

The National Executive Council NEC of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP has opted to throw the contest for its presidential ticket open rather than zone it to a particular region of the country. National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Debo Ologunagba, who announced the decision yesterday while briefing reporters at the party’s secretariat in Abuja, after the NEC meeting, said it was part of the resolutions reached at the end […]

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Vice President and former governor of Lagos State Tinubu said to have submitted their forms.

The Vice President, Professor Yemi Osibanjo, and a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress APC, Bola Tinubu, have submitted their presidential nomination and expression of interest forms after the ruling party extended the deadline for the submission of nomination and expression of interest forms by aspirants seeking various elective offices till Friday. Osibanjo and former governor of Lagos State Tinubu, were among other party faithful who submitted their forms yesterday […]

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The Local Government congresses of the PDP have been described as peaceful.

The Local Government congresses of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP held across the 17 Local Government Areas of Enugu State on Tuesday have been described very peaceful, well organized and transparent by the Electoral Panel from the National Secretariat of the party. The PDP LGA congresses were conducted across the 17 LGAs of Enugu State to elect one National Delegate and nominate one Person Living with Disability PLWD ahead of […]

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President Muhammadu Buhari has maintained he would step down on May 29th, 2023.

President Muhammadu Buhari has maintained he would step down on May 29th, 2023, after serving two terms, following call for him to extend his tenure by six months. This was in response to the Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Robert Clarke’s recent remarks, where he demanded that Buhari should elongate his stay in office, stressing that without security, Nigeria would not likely realize its true potential as a peaceful and prosperous […]

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