By NNANWIKE OBAH ESQ section 64(6) of the Electoral Act States: Where during collation of results, there is a dispute regarding a collated result or the result of an election from any polling Unit, the collation officer or returning officer shall use the following to determine the correctness of the dispute result: (a) the original…
In 1968, the author received the Pulitzer Prize for this photograph – one of the most prestigious awards in the United States, which is awarded for achievements in music, cinema, theater and journalism. The picture shows two electricians, Randall Champion and Jay Thompson, hanging from a power pole. That day there was a strong heat…
Published on March 14, 2023 By Advocate News Nigeria The Obidients Movement has resolved to throw its support behind the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Enugu State, Dr. Peter Mbah, in the March 18 election directing all its members in the state to come out en masse to vote for him….
By Kenneth Okonkwo 12th March 2023. Winston Churchill once said that: “democracy is the worst form of government – except for all the others that have been tried.” He said this in the House of Commons, November 11, 1947, when he postulated that “Many forms of government have been tried, and will be tried in…
Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, SAN, says in spite of the challenges related to the February 25 presidential and National Assembly elections, many positives were recorded including the destruction of the myth of political structure. Speaking on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Monday, Falana said that in the just concluded elections, the people showed that…
The Presidency wishes to react to some public concerns that President Muhammadu Buhari did not react to the Supreme Court judgement on the issue of the N500 and N1,000 old currency notes, and states here plainly and clearly that at no time did he instruct the Attorney General and the CBN Governor to disobey any…
From Magnus Eze, Enugu Presidential candidate of Labour Party (LP) in the February 25 election, Mr. Peter Obi, on Monday, declared that Chijioke Edeoga remains his choice and that of the party for the governorship of Enugu State. Obi, who spoke on a breakfast show of a popular national television station monitored in Enugu, explained…
By Louis Amoke He became governor of Enugu State in 2015 when Enugu’s purse grew leaner and Nigeria’s economy was in recession as federal allocations dwindled to an all-time low – a major setback his predecessor, Mr. Sullivan Chime acknowledged during a thanksgiving Mass to commemorate the end of his administration. His administration was receiving…
A report by Management Newspaper has said that the Speaker of the Home of Representatives, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, is being thought of because the chief of employees to the president-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Gbajabiamila was conspicuously absent on the International Conference Centre (ICC) Abuja venue of the presentation of Certificates of Return to Members-elect…
Chatham House, an independent policy institute based in London, has stated that from its analysis of the February 25 presidential election, it would appear that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) failed to learn new lessons. The organisation stressed that the electoral umpire failed to adhere to its own guidelines, which it enunciated before the…
