The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has condemned the postponement of the general elections by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). NBA President, Mr Paul Usoro, in a statement he signed on Saturday said the association was confused by the announcement of the commission to shift the polls on the same day they were meant to … Read more
Lagos – Muda Yusuf, Director General of the Lagos Chambers of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) has said that Nigeria would lose about $1.5 billion owing to the postponement of the general elections. In a telephone interview with INDEPENDENT, Yusuf asserted that the country would loss nothing less than the said amount because of the shutdown … Read more
The national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party has alleged that the plan to postpone today’s Presidential and National Assembly elections by the Independent National Electoral Commission was hatched inside the Presidency. It alleged that the idea actually came from the Presidency, but warned that President Muhammadu Buhari’s defeat was merely a few days away. … Read more
The Senator Representing Lagos West Senatorial district, Sen. Adeola Olamilekan Solomon YAYI has urged Lagosians and Nigeria at large not to loose hope as regards the election postponement by INEC. Read the FULL STATEMENT BELOW: “Following the regrettable one week postponement of the Presidential and National Assembly election by INEC in the early hours of the … Read more
Pandemonium broke out in Epe Grammar School at 4a.m today when a local inspector ordered corpers to leave the school premises where they passed the night due to the postponement of the election. Aggrieved Corp members however, asked for their training fee which was yet to be paid to them but the L. I refused. … Read more
Former vice-president Atiku Abubakar has appealed to his supporters to remain peaceful following the postponement of the presidential election. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) announced earlier this morning that it was moving the elections by one week because of logistics. Atiku, who is flying the flag of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the … Read more
Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo has reacted to the decision by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to postpone the 2019 presidential and National Assembly elections. While describing the postponement as ‘truly disappointing’, Osinbajo said the march to the Next Level continues. Recall that INEC Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, addressing reporters yesterday at the press centre of … Read more
STATE HOUSE PRESS RELEASE STATEMENT BY PRESIDENT BUHARI ON THE POSTPONEMENT OF GENERAL ELECTIONS BY INEC I am deeply disappointed that despite the long notice given and our preparations both locally and internationally, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) postponed the Presidential and National Assembly elections within hours of its commencement. Many Nigerians have traveled … Read more
Presidential candidate for African Action Congress (AAC), Yele Sowore has given his own reaction to the postponement on the elections by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). He said, “New date for Nigeria’s Presidential Election is NOW February 23rd 2019…Postponing their day of judgement by one week.” INEC, in a recently released statement signed by … Read more
The campaign office of President Muhammadu Buhari has blamed the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the postponement of the 2019 presidential elections. Mahmood Yakubu, chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, announced at about 2:40 a.m. Saturday that the election had been postponed, barely hours after Nigerians were set to hit the polling units. … Read more
Nigerians are angry over the treatment of youth corpers recruited as INEC Ad-hoc Staff. Many of the corpers were seen sleeping outside at night, yet the elections were postponed. Reacting to the postponement and corpers’ plight, Banky W wrote: “While we are all frustrated, please spare a thought for people who are most affected by … Read more
INEC has announced the postponement of the Presidential and National Assembly elections earlier scheduled for today (Saturday) by one week. The commission rescheduled the Presidential and National Assembly Elections to Saturday, February 23, 2019 while the governorship, State Houses of Assembly and Federal Capital Territory Area Council polls earlier fixed for March 2 would now … Read more
Lagos was painted red with love yesterday, as friends of the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos State, Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu organized a Valentine’s Day event with Lagosians, with the aim of spreading love, themed: ‘A Passion to serve’. The events, took place at Abule Egba, Festac, Ikeja, Surulere, and Tafawa … Read more
The Federal High Court in Lagos has fixed February 20 and 22 to hear two suits by two All Progressives Congress (APC) members challenging INEC’s failure to enforce the APC’s decision to uphold their candidacies for the March 2 House of Assembly polls. Justice Rilwan Aikawa will on February 20 hear the suit filed by … Read more
President Muhammadu Buhari has boasted over his recent campaign tour all over the country, calling everyone who claimed that he does not have the stamina to run for a second term can find something else to say. Recall that a lot of his critics and even his supporters had fears that the president could not … Read more
Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Kaduna on Friday said it had commenced distribution of all sensitive materials needed for the conduct of Saturday’s Presidential and National Assembly elections. Alhaji Kaugama Abdullahi, the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) made this known to the News Agency of Nigeria on Friday in Kaduna. Abdullahi said that the materials … Read more
A suspected thief who could not swim, jumped into the Lagos lagoon after snatching a phone from a passenger in traffic this afternoon February 16th. Luck ran out on the thief after he couldn’t swim when he landed into the Lagoon. He cried out for help and was rescued by passersby who recovered the stolen phone from … Read more
