The Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN), has rejected calls by the Supreme Council for Shari’ah in Nigeria (SCSN) for the removal of Joash Amupitan, Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Bashir Umar, President of the SCSN, had made the call at the Council’s 2026 Annual Pre-Ramadan Lecture on Tuesday in Abuja. Umar said …
By Sylvanus Tyoakaa, Abuja The Senate has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to allow duly registered and eligible prison-electorates to exercise their franchise during all general elections in Nigeria. The upper legislature added that INEC should determine the status of the inmates that are constitutionally and legally qualified to be registered as voters….
The Supreme Court has ordered governors of the 36 states of the federation to henceforth steer clear of the funds meant for the 774 Local Government Areas. The apex court declared that the control of funds of the local government councils by the states is unconstitutional. The court orders that funds meant for the local…
L- R: Director of Media and Advocacy, National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency ( NDLEA), Femi Babafemi, Secretary NDLEA, Shadrah Haruna, Chairman NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Buba Marwa(rtd), Special Adviser to the Chairman Col. Yakubu Bako, Special Adviser on NDCMP to the Chairman Otumba Ipinmisho, during a press Conference on the recent burst of Method Clandestine Laboratories…
Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, has said that the current scarcity of naira notes is a ploy to ensure the postponement of the general election. According to reports by TheCable, Tinubu said this on Friday at the APC presidential campaign rally in Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti capital. The former Lagos governor alleged…
The National Assembly on Monday transmitted the revised Electoral Act Amendment Bill to President Muhammadu Buhari for assent. In a statement, an aide to the President on National Assembly matters (Senate), Mr. Babajide Omoworare, said the clerk of the National Assembly, Olatunde Ojo, transmitted the bill to the president on Monday. According to Omoworare, sending…
