Following the Independent National Electoral Commission’s (INEC) initial extension of the deadline for the collection of Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs), further requests have been made to the commission to extend the deadline once more. A coalition of Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) has called on INEC to extend the deadline in the same vein. Refusing to do so, they argue, would result in citizens, particularly students, feeling disenfranchised in the upcoming general elections. In a joint statement issued on Friday, a coalition of ten CSOs also asked the commission for a better timetable to ..read more

The Central Bank of Nigeria branch in Soko State has commenced swapping old naira notes for new notes for residents of the state in order to ease their stress. The exercise was launched in Wamakko and Gwadabawa Local Government Areas respectively on Thursday with residents of the two LGAs expressing satisfaction over the exercise. Speaking in Wamakko LGA, the Sokoto CBN brach Controller, Dahiru Nakazalle Usman, said the apex bank began the exercise in order to ease the stress being encountered by residents of the state in accessing new notes. He said the exercise was targeted at the rural are ..read more

The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC), on Friday, called on anti-graft agencies particularly the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit to closely monitor how commercial bank managers handle the new naira notes they receive from the Central Bank of Nigeria. A statement by the Chairman of the Sokoto Chapter of the group, Muhammad Aliyu appealed to Nigerians to remain peaceful and stop panicking about the money swap, calling on the Central Bank of Nigeria and the federal government to extend the deadline for the expiration of the old naira notes by at ..read more

The ruling All Progressives Congress APC has congratulated its candidate in the last governorship election in Osun State, Alhaji Adegboyega Oyetola, on his victory at the Election Tribunal. According to the party, the decision of the tribunal is an affirmation of broad-based electoral reforms initiated by President Muhammadu Buhari which has seen greater deployment of technology by the electoral umpire to expose over-voting and other election rigging methods. Party spokesman, Felix Morka in a statement issued Friday in Abuja noted that the tribunal’s verdict represents victory for democracy a ..read more

The House of Representatives has requested that the Federal Government close tertiary education institutions so that students can actively participate in the coming general elections. The National Universities Commission, the National Board for Technical Education, the National Commission for Colleges of Education, and the Federal Ministry of Education were all asked by the House to instruct all tertiary institutions to suspend academic activities during the election period. Furthermore, the lower chamber resolved that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) make special arrangem ..read more

Governor Ademola Adeleke’s administration in Osun State came to an end on Friday when the Osun Election Petitions Tribunal sacked him. His stay in office lasted a mere 62 days! The tribunal determined that the Independent National Electoral Commission had violated both the provisions of the Electoral Act as amended and the Federal Republic of Nigeria’s Constitution when it invalidated the results of the Osun governorship election on July 16. WITHIN NIGERIA reports the Independent National Electoral Commission had declared Adeleke, the Peoples Democratic Party governorship candidate, the winne ..read more

The All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council, APC PCC,  has explained why President Muhammadu Buhari, cannot attend all the election campaigns of the party’s presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. A member of the Public Affairs Directorate APC PCC, Mariya Ibrahim Baba, said Buhari is too busy to attend all Tinubu’s election campaigns Ibrahim Baba stated this on Friday while fielding questions during an interview on Arise Television’s Morning Show programme. The PCC member said the president had marked out places he would accompany Tinubu for campaigns, adding that it ..read more

Former Chief of Air Staff and All Progressives Congress (APC) gubernatorial candidate in Bauchi, Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar (rtd), has chastised Bauchi State Governor Bala Mohammed for irregular wage and pension payments to government personnel in the state. Abubakar made the remarks on Thursday in Bauchi, during the launch of a Tinubu Presidential Support Group, Lobito, to mobilize grassroots votes for him and his party’s presidential candidate. “It is really unfortunate that our employees have not been paid. It is quite unfortunate that someone will serve the state for 35 years and will n ..read more

Bandits wreaking havoc in the North Western part of the country have attack a mining site in Hayin Udawa community, Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State, killing five miners The bandits stormed the mining site on Thursday afternoon where the victims were working, a local, who spoke in confidence with newsmen, disclosed. “Five of our local miners were killed on Wednesday while working in the bush. They were all from Udawa town.” Daily Post quoted the source as saying. He added that others sustained gunshot injuries. He stated that where the attack took place was not far from where band ..read more

Former Super Eagles coach Samson Siasia has lost his suit against the world football governing body FIFA in an Appeal Court in the United States. Siasia, who also played for the Nigeria national team before becoming a coach, was seeking to overturn a lifetime ban, later reduced to five years, for fixing matches. As reported by Reuters, a 3-0 decision was awarded in favour of FIFA on Thursday at the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan. The court ruled Siasia did not show why a trial court in New York had jurisdiction over his case. In August 2021, it would be recalled that Siasia’s ..read more