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Mahmood Yakubu, chairperson of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), says Nigeria’s quest for inclusive election is not complete until there are provisions for diaspora voting. Speaking on Tuesday at Chatham House in the United Kingdom, Yakubu said there is a need to look into the necessary framework to ensure that persons in […]

Olisa Agbakoba, a senior advocate of Nigeria (SAN), has asked the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to clarify section 134 of the 1999 constitution (as amended) which specifies the requirements for a candidate to be declared winner of a presidential election. Section 134 of the 1999 Constitution provides as follows: 1) A […]

Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), says if elected, his administration will meet every demand of the residents in Ekiti state. Abubakar spoke on Tuesday while addressing residents of Ekiti at the presidential rally of the party in Ado Ekiti, the state capital. The former vice-president said […]

Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) says the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has disregarded its invitations to answer questions on revenues moved to the federation account between January 2006 and December 2021. This was disclosed by FAAC’s post mortem sub-committee (PMSC) at its monthly meeting on Tuesday, January 17, 2023. The sub-committee […]

The Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited says it deducted N152.85 billion as a shortfall for the importation of petrol (subsidy) in November 2022. The national oil company said this in its monthly presentation to the Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) meeting on Wednesday, January 17, 2023. Subsidy or under-recovery is the […]

Nyesom Wike, governor of Rivers, has hinted that talks with his political allies on the candidate to support in the presidential election will soon be concluded. According to a statement by Kelvin Ebiri, his spokesperson, Wike spoke on Tuesday at St. Martin’s Anglican Church, Omagwa town, venue of the LGA flag-off rally of […]

Festus Keyamo says he is ready to forfeit his role as the spokesperson of the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential campaign council, in order to take up a case against Atiku Abubakar. TheCable earlier reported that the APC presidential campaign council asked law enforcement agencies to arrest Abubakar, the PDP presidential candidate, based […]

Mahmood Yakubu, the chairperson of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), says the commission will carry out mock accreditation of voters before the general election. Yakubu said this on Tuesday while speaking at the Chatham House in the United Kingdom. He said the mock accreditation would be carried out in selected polling […]

The federal government has finalised the registration process of the Congress of University Academics (CONUA), a breakaway faction of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). On Tuesday, the leadership of the union held a closed-door meeting with Chris Ngige, minister of labour and employment, in Abuja. At the meeting, the minister […]