“Paying agents at the polling units is almost normal now, in any country. For instance, in the United States, they pay their canvassers.”

The United States of America (USA) has issued safety advisory to its citizens in Nigeria as the nation enters it presidential election week.

Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke of the Federal High Court, Lagos, has granted the prayer of the Labour Party, LP, seeking an order to bar the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, from using the chairman of the Lagos Parks and Garages, Musliu Akinsanya, better known as MC Oluomo from distributing election materials in Lagos.

In a statement on Sunday, the LASTMA General Manager, Bolaji Oreagba, said the APC presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu; party stalwarts and supporters will also be present at the rally.

If INEC is not disowning the reports of its Resident Electoral Commissioners, RECs, whom it legally empowered to organise and monitor primaries of political parties, it is engaging in disgraceful doublespeak which ends up leaving Nigerians more confused and perplexed.

Lagos tops figure with 928,951; Oyo-800,000, Kano-468,314 By Clifford Ndujihe, Dayo Johnson, Demola Akinyemi, Wole Mosadomi, Marie-Therese Nanlong, Olayinka Ajayi, Ogalah Ibrahim, Bashir Bello Shina Abubakar, Ike Uchechukwu, Steve Oko, Adeola Badru, James Ogunnaike & Abdulmumin Giwa NO fewer than 4,175,006 registered voters in 10 states will not vote in the February 25 Presidential and National Assembly elections. […]

“I am happy with the response so far and it is my understanding that more of our members are still on their way coming. You will recall the recent developments that have necessitated the need for this invitation.”

“I thought the best thing to do is to get all those who are holding forte in their respective positions and who were elected on the platform of the party to get together and have some interaction so that we can have a better or a better understanding of what situation we are in.”

“My wife, myself, and children we’re fully Obidients, we’re not those who make noise on social media, we work in the background, and we are fully in support… if you like vote insecurity, tribalism, bigotry, or ethnicity.”

Determined to validate the use of the old N500 and N1000 banknotes as legal tenders, 10 States of the federation have through their Attorneys-General, filed a fresh process before the Supreme Court to challenge President Muhammadu Buhari’s pronouncement in the broadcast he made last Thursday.