Tag: Postponement
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Guber Polls: INEC postpones elections in 10 polling units at VGC
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said that elections will hold tomorrow in ten polling units at Victoria Garden City (VGC) Lekki Lagos. The announcement was made by the INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner, Segun Abaje in Lagos when he addressed reporters at VGC.
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CAF hints at postponing 2023 AFCON tourney in Cote d’lvoire
The Confederation of African Football (CAF) is considering postponing the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations, according to reports. The competition has been scheduled to hold in Cote d’lvoire june, 2023. Recall that the 2021 AFCON was postponed and held in January 2022 in Cameroon due to ravaging corona virus in 2021.
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Delta APC Congress: Stakeholders demand postponement as C’ttee members narrowly escape lynching
Critical stakeholders at the scheduled Saturday ward congresses in Delta All Progressives Congress, APC demand postponement as three- man screening committee narrowly escaped lynching in Asaba. There was also confusion at the party’s secretariat, Thursday, as hundreds of angry aspirants across the State who besieged the Delta State Secretariat in Asaba with bank tellers, left…
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COVID-19: Evacuation of Nigerians stranded in Canada postponed
About 200 Nigerian citizens stranded in Canada hoping to return home on Thursday will have to wait as their evacuation flight has been postponed. The Nigeria High Commission in Ottawa, which is organising the flight, announced the postponement in a statement, citing “logistics issues” beyond its control. It specifically blamed the inability of Air Peace…
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Court orders indefinite postponement of Adamawa supplementary governorship polls
A state high court in Yola has ordered the indefinite postponement of the governorship supplementary polls in Adamawa State slated for Saturday. The judge, Abdul-azeez Waziri, said the polls should be put on hold until he rules on an application for an interlocutory injunction barring the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from conducting the polls.…
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Election Postponement cannot change will of God for Nigeria – PFN
The Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria has charged Nigerians to remain unperturbed in spite of the postponement of the 2019 general elections by a week. PFN appealed to Nigerians, particularly Christians, not to give up, saying that the postponement would not change the outcome of the elections. This is contained in a statement by PFN National…
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Election postponement may lead to full blown crisis if…Bayelsa Gov, Dickson raises alarm
Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State has warned of a looming major constitutional crisis, if the elections failed to hold as rescheduled by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Dickson, who briefed reporters in Government House, Yenagoa, said there was a need for stakeholders to work collectively to avert the crisis. Dickson suggested that President…
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Buhari, Osinbajo, APC governors meet over election postponement
President Muhammadu Buhari is currently presiding over an emergency meeting of the All Progressives Congress (APC) caucus at the party’s national secretariat, Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that those in attendance included Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, the National Leader of the APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, and National Chairman of the APC, Adams Oshiomhole.…
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Guild Of Professional Bloggers condemn election postponement
Nigeria’s bloggers’ umbrella body; The Guild Of Professional Bloggers Of Nigeria (GPBN) has condemned the Independent Electoral Commission of Nigeria (INEC) for postponing the Presidential election scheduled for Saturday 16th February 2019. GPBN in a press statement signed by it’s National Secretary Mr Femi Adeoya on behalf of the Association, said the postponement of the…
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Presidential candidates, Moghalu, Durotoye react to election postponement
Presidential candidates of the Young Progressives Party (YPP) and Alliance for New Nigeria (ANN) Kingsley Moghalu and Fela Durotoye on Saturday reacted to the postponement of the general elections by the Independent Natioanl Electoral Commission (INEC). In his reaction, the YPP candidate, Moghalu on Saturday said INEC’s postponement of the elections signposted the recycling of…