The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), yesterday said the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has taken delivery of sensitive materials for next week’s presidential election. According to the commission, the different zonal stores of state and local government offices of INEC are presently taking delivery of sensitive materials for the conduct of the 2019 general. INEC, in a bid to ensure that the forth- coming elections be conducted as the best in the history of the country’s democracy has swung into action in fine-tuning all necessary arrangements to the effect of a successful, credible, fair and globally accepted election exercise.…
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The leadership of the National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, has said it members would not participate in the forth coming general elections if the strike action embarked by university and polytechnic teachers is not called off before the general elections. The NANS President, Comr. Bamidele Danielson Akpan, made the disclosure on Monday afternoon in Nasarawa State University, Keffi, in a statement released to newsmen. Comr. Akpan frowned at the carefree attitude by the federal government in resolving issues that led to the protracted strike. Although the leadership of the organisation had met with President Muhammadu Buhari on January 3,…
The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party , Atiku Abubakar, has said he would end the lingering strike by university lecturers in the country on his first day in office as the country’s president. Mr Atiku made this disclosure in Lagos , Sunday evening , at the Silverbird Man of the Year event . He said the industrial action which had denied university students in the country access to education for a period running into four months was a disgraceful and thus will receive his first attention as president if voted into office in the February 16 presidential election…
The parish priest of the Church of the Annunciation, Arab Road, Gbazango, Kubwa Abuja, Reverend Father Kwaggas Matthew, has said his congregation members who fail to bring their PVCs to church will not receive holy communion. The cleric told members of his congregation to come out and vote in the presidential election for a candidate that will stop further killings and poverty in the country. The preacher accused the federal government of doing little to stop the killings of innocent Nigerians by suspected herdsmen in different parts of the country. “Next Sunday, no PVC, no communion. If you have…
The supreme leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has alleged that presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar is an “indigene” of Cameroon. Kanu stated this on Saturday during his live broadcast from London, UK. He said Atiku’s region of Adamawa state was in Cameroon until 1961 when a referendum was conducted and the region was accepted as part of Nigeria. Hence, originally, Atiku and his kinsmen from the southern Cameroonian region are not real Nigerians. Kanu further blamed Atiku for the failure of Alex Ekwueme in the 1999 PDP presidential primaries.…
The Association of White Witches in Nigeria, AWWN, has finally endorsed PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, as the next President of the country. Spokesman of the association, Dr. Iboi Okhue, told Sunday Independent in an exclusive telephone chat that, the victory of Atiku was sealed in two meetings held on the Obudu Mountain in Cross River State and the Zuma Rock in Abuja. The white witches disclosed that Atiku’s major victory would be the bulk vote from the northern part of the country, including areas that President Mohammadu Buhari is expected to have a firm stronghold like some of the states in the…
The Abuja Division of the Federal High Court, will on Wednesday, hear a suit seeking to disqualify Governor Nyesom Wike from participating in the forthcoming governorship election in Rivers State, over an allegation that his birth certificate was forged Justice Inyang Ekwo directed the service of hearing notice on the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Governor Wike and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, who were listed as Defendants in the suit marked FHC / ABJ / CS /1430/3018, which was filed by one Mr. Elvis Chinda. The plaintiff, alleged that the certificate of birth Wike attached to the Form C.…
The office of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Isialangwa South Local Government Area in Abia State has been set ablaze, MERIDIAN SPY reports. Available information on our news desk has it that the incident was carried out by some unknown hoodlums in the Local Government Area. The hoodlums were said to have stormed the INEC office and set it ablaze around 2 am on Sunday morning without any prior knowledge of the people in the neighborhood. Swift measures were, however, taken by youths in the neighborhood who quickly mobilised to extinguish the inferno; and as well alerted the police…
Sintayehu Yinesu of Ethiopia has on Saturday emerged winner of the 2019 Access Bank Lagos City Marathon. Yinesu breast the tape in a time of 2.17.20 to grab the ultimate prize of $50,000. Joshua Kipkorir of Kenya also came second with a time record of 2.18.16 to go home with $30,000 while William Yegon, also of Kenya, came third with a record of 2.19.04. Goyet Gideon of Nigeria came 14th and first from the nation to finish the race. Meleka Dinke, still from Ethiopia, was the first female to finish the race. She ended at 2:48:03. The race started in…
On Tuesday, 29th January, the news of the abduction of Mr Donatus Nwamkpa, the chairman of the All Progressive Congress, APC, in Abia State awashed the media space. The shocking news left many concerned Nigerians with unverified insinuations on the possible forces behind Nwamkpa’s abduction. However, MERIDIAN SPY, has reliably gathered that Mr Donatus Nwamkpa only stage-manged his own abduction with his internal loyalists, contrary to popular reports that he must have been kidnapped by opposition political parties in the State. We, can reliably report that no one had kidnapped the embattled APC gaffer, rather he stage-managed his own abduction…
On Tuesday, 29th January, the news of the abduction of Mr Donatus Nwamkpa, the chairman of the All Progressive Congress, APC, in Abia State awashed the media space. The shocking news left many concerned Nigerians with unverified insinuations on the possible forces behind Nwamkpa’s abduction. However, MERIDIAN SPY, has reliably gathered that Mr Donatus Nwamkpa only stage-manged his own abduction with his internal loyalists, contrary to popular reports that he must have been kidnapped by opposition political parties in the State. We, can reliably report that no one had kidnapped the embattled APC gaffer, rather he stage-managed his own abduction…
An aide to Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State, Mr Wilson Chukwuma Eze has resigned from the governor’s cabinet, MERIDIAN SPY reports. Mr Chukwuma Eze who until the time of his resignation was a Senior Special Assistant to the governor on youth mobilization made made his resignation public on his verified facebook page on Thursday. Following his resignation from the governor’s camp and the fold of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the popular youth mobilizer has defected to the All Progressive Congress and has declared his support for the party’s governorship candidate in the State, Dr Uchechukwu Sampson Ogah. Attempts…