archiveFebruary 17, 2019

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called for a re-evaluation of the card readers expected to be used in the elections scheduled to hold on February 23 and March 9, 2019, respectively. Uche Secondus, the PDP National Chairman, made the request in a letter addressed to Professor Mahmood Yakubu, Chairman...

  To register about 1.8 million candidates The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says over 1.6 million candidates have registered for the examination adding that not less than 1.8 million candidates would be registered for its 2019 UTME by the end of the registration exercise scheduled for February 21....

Sen. Andy Uba, representing Anambra South Senatorial District in the Senate, has said that he was never arrested over any reason. Uba debunked the rumour in an interview he granted newsmen in Awka on Sunday. He said that he was surprised when his attention was drawn to news in the...

The National Assembly has shifted the resumption of plenary by one week. The Assembly, according to a one-page statement entitled ‘Postponement of Resumption of Plenary’ issued on Sunday by the Clerk of the National Assembly, Mr M. A. Sani-Omolori, attributed the shifting of the reconvening date of the federal legislators...

Transparency International (TI) has questioned the safety and integrity of election materials that were already distributed before the postponement of the 2019 general elections on Saturday by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). TI, which expressed disappointment with the postponement on Saturday, said in a statement by its Nigeria head,...