Tag: Diaspora Voting
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How diaspora voting will benefit Nigeria – Agency D-G
Dr Loretta Ogboro-Okor, Director-General of the Edo Diaspora Agency, on Thursday emphasised the importance of diaspora voting, stating that it would benefit Nigerians both at home and abroad.
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Diaspora voting: Bill scales second reading in HOR
House of Representatives has passed through second reading, a Bill for an Act to provide for the rights of Nigerian.
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Speaker Abbas pushes for diaspora voting, protection of govt entities during procurement
…as Bills garner support from House at second reading Efforts by the Speaker of the House of Representatives Hon. Abbas Tajudeen, to see that Nigerians in diaspora are given the right to vote from wherever they are in the world in any given election in the country garnered support on the floor of the House…
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How Nigerians in diaspora should vote during elections – Obasanjo
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has backed calls for Nigeria to adopt diaspora voting, stressing that Nigerians in the diaspora can vote through the embassies during elections.
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Senate denies Nigerians in diaspora right to vote during elections
The Nigerian Senate has denied Nigerians in the diaspora right to vote during elections in the country.
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2019 Elections: We are ready to conduct Diaspora voting if…INEC
The Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, has said it is ready to conduct diaspora voting if the government provided the Commission with adequate funds for t exercise. The INEC chair also urged the National Assembly to quicken the amendment of the 1999 Constitution and the Electoral Act. Yakubu made the call…
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2019 Elections: FG back calls for diaspora voting
The Federal Government has said it would support “any’’ mechanism to ensure the inclusion of Nigerians abroad in future elections. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr Geoffrey Onyeama said this at a seminar on the validation of proposed “National Policy on Diaspora Matters’’ in Abuja on Thursday. Onyeama was represented by the Permanent Secretary of…