INEC chair, RECs meet over Saturday election experiences

Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, is having a meeting with the Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs) at the commission’s headquarters in Abuja.

This was disclosed in a tweet INEC released on its Twitter handle, explaining that the body will review the conduct of the presidential and National Assembly elections held last Saturday, February 23.

It is believed that the RECs will at the meeting share some of the ugly and nice experiences they had during the exercise that was bloody in some places and peaceful in others.

Some of the RECs had alleged that they were forced by some candidates to declare elections in their favour at gun points.

INEC chair, RECs meet over Saturday election experiences

February 28, 2019 Ibrahim Ali Ahmed

Breaking: Court sacks Rivers Accord guber candidate

A Federal High court in Port Harcourt the Rivers state capital has sacked the Rivers state governorship candidate for Accord Party, Chief Dumo Lulu-Briggs, on the grounds that he was not the authentic candidate for the part

http://thenationonlineng.net/breaking-court-sacks-rivers-accord-guber-candidate/

February 28, 2019 Ibrahim Ali Ahmed

Oyigbo traders laud Buhari’s re-election, want Port Harcourt-Aba Road fix

Port Harcourt – A cross section of traders in Oyigbo, headquarters of Oyigbo Local Government Area of Rivers, have commended the re-election of President Muhammadu Buhari and urged him to come to their aid. Specifically, they want the President to use the opportunity of his victory at the Saturday presidential poll to fix the dilapidated Eleme – Oyigbo axis of Port Harcourt – Aba road. The portion of the road had been in bad shape since 2009. Residents said some of the road users had died and goods worth millions of naira destroyed in the last 10 years.

February 28, 2019February 28, 2019 Ibrahim Ali Ahmed

Ibrahim Shekarau: Owing pensioners is a crime

Former governor of Kano State, Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau, has said that it is a crime for any government to owe pensioners who once sacrificed their lives to serve the nation.

Shekarau said this in Nsukka during the maiden alumni home-coming/reunion of the School of Postgraduate Studies of University of Nigeria, Nsukka, while presenting a lecture titled “Nation-Building: the Role of Human Development and Good Governance.”

He said to encourage national development, pensioners who sacrifice a good part of their lives to serve their fatherland should be accorded respect and paid their pension regularly.

“To me, it is a crime for (any) government, be it Federal or state to owe pensioners who served their fatherland with their strength and youthful energy.”

https://www.today.ng/news/politics/ibrahim-shekarau-pensioners-crime-177052