UYO— In desperate bids to win at all cost, some candidates in Akwa Ibom State have stepped up the game, wooing ad-hoc staff engaged by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.

ibadan—RESIDENT  Electoral Commissioner in Oyo State, Barrister Mutiu Agboke has dismissed as balderdash rumours that the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC is compromised, noting that electoral officers deployed to the state are kept on their toes due to political sophistication of Oyo.

OUR contemporary national life and politics is a continuation of a disastrous trend etched out during colonisation. Why was Africa colonised? The short answer: competition between European nations in the late nineteenth century, juxtaposed with economic depression in Europe. Europe needed both natural resources and markets for its products. For the avoidance of doubt, Africa wasn’t colonised because it was “inferior” or needed to become “civilised” through the “kind” efforts of its colonial masters.

Following the reported clash between the police in Imo state and the members of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, the group has pleaded to the Imo state commissioner of police, Dazuki Galadanchi, to come out clear on the whereabouts of the bodies of their members said to have been killed in the incident. 

ASABA—THE Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and the All Progressives Congress, APC are engulfed in accusation and counter-accusation of an attempted assassination and destruction of property of their party candidates standing in for elections in the forthcoming general election.

Federal Government says it is committed to realising excellent Information Communication Technology, ICT, education in Nigerian schools, just as it begins commissioning of Skool Media Technology Experience Centre in schools around the country.

UYO—THE Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has given Akwa Ibom State government a clean bill of health over allegations in some quarters that the lists of the adhoc staff recruited for the general election were doctored.

Apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo has called on Ndigbo to go out massively on 23rd February   to exercise their electoral franchise.

THE atmosphere of great disappointment occasioned by the postponement of the Presidential and National Assembly elections from February 16 to Saturday, February 23, 2019 has understandably put major political actors and the electorate on edge.

YOLA—Ahead of the re-rescheduled presidential and National Assembly elections fixed for this Saturday, Adamawa State office of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has administered oath of neutrality on its staff.