The Kano State Police Command has arrested three persons for allegedly buying permanent voter cards(PVCs), ahead of the supplementary governorship elections on 23 March. The state Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), DSP Abdullahi Haruna disclosed this in a statement issued in Kano on Wednesday saying, ‘on March 12 at about 8 p.m, based on information […]
The Akwa lbom State Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and relevant security agencies have resolved to recover 2045 permanent voters cards (PVCs) lost to hoodlums in the state last month. The incident occurred at Okobo council area of the state during political parties primary election when some persons suspected to be political thugs invaded INEC […]
The National Commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in charge of Adamawa, Taraba and Borno, retired AVM Tijjani Mu’azu, has decried the poor turnout of eligible voters to collect their Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) in parts of Adamawa. The commission had displayed names of registered voters for claims and objections and the exercise […]
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Lagos State on Thursday said some 1.38 million Permanent Voter’s Cards (PVCs) were still uncollected in the state. The Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Lagos State, Mr Sam Olumekun, gave the figure in an interview with newsmen in Lagos. “We still have about 1.38 million PVCs uncollected as we […]
…Registers 84, 271,832 voters To ensure adequate collection of already available permanent voters’ cards (PVCs) and reduction of uncollected cards deficit ahead of the 2019 general elections, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is set to employ strategies to effectively dispatch the voters’ cards. The INEC Chairman, Prof Mahmood Yakubu, also disclosed that one of […]
The Zonal Director, Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN), South East, Mr. Ike Okere has urged Nigerians to decide their future in the 2019 general elections by registering to vote, collecting their Permanent Voter’s Cards (PVCs), and protecting their votes. Okere said the people have the right to protect their votes in any given election. […]
Imo State governor, Chief Rochas Okorocha has declared Wednesday and Thursday next week as public holiday to enable the people of the state to collect their Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs). This is against the backdrop of the fact that more than 480,000 PVCs were yet to be collected at the various INEC offices across the […]
The Officer in charge of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Uvwie Local Government Area, Mr. Andrew Akhigbe, said Uvwie Local Government has the highest number of uncollected Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs) in the state. Mr. Akhigbe made this known on Tuesday in a media interaction with journalists at the INEC office located in Uvwie […]
Residents of Anambra State have been called upon to secure their Permanent Voter cards (PVCs), in order to be eligible to vote in the 2019 general election. The Special Adviser to the Governor on Special Duties and Continuous Voter Registration, Dr. Amaka Akaudo, made the call during a press conference in her office at the […]
Operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) on Tuesday swooped on a popular secondary school in Ado-Ekiti, Ola Oluwa Muslim Grammar School and arrested some officials for forcefully collecting Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) from teachers. The DSS men who were believed to be acting on a tip-off stormed the school around 9.00 am and […]
The Oyo State Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Mr Mutiu Agboke, says no fewer than 759,780 uncollected Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs), are still in the custody of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), in the state. Agboke disclosed this on Tuesday in Ibadan during the handing over ceremony organised for the incoming Administrative Secretary, Mr David […]
Independent Electoral Commission (INEC), Delta State, has said that168,000 uncollected PVCs are in its possesion. Mrs,Rose Orianrian- Anthony, Administrative Secretary of the Commission Who Spoke our reporter in Asaba on Thursday in an interview, Said, ” A DDC machines have been deployed to the State, we at this Commission has taken delivery of 30 new […]
The Senator representing Lagos Central Senatorial District of Lagos State, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, has urged registered voters resident in the state to ensure that they collect their Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs), which is the key to participating in the forthcoming 2019 general election. The lawmaker made the call following revelations by the Independent National Electoral […]
The Chairman of the National Independent Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Mahmood Yakubu, has disclosed that four million eligible voters are expected to collect their Permanent Voters’ Cards (PVCs) in the next few days. Yakubu, who stated this while speaking at INEC Campus Outreach on “Youth Votes Count’’ at the University of Abuja, said the commission […]
The almost 242, 987 uncollected permanent voter’s cards (PVCs) has continued to unsettle the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Delta state. Executive Secretary, INEC, Delta State, Mrs. Rose Oriaran-Anthony who spoke to our reporter in Asaba said: “As at April 6, 2018 a total of 242, 987 PVCs were still in our possession”, disclosing that […]
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Lagos State has said that it was making plans to redistribute the unclaimed 1.4 million Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) in the state. Mr. Sam Olumekun, the Resident Electoral Commissioner in the state, disclosed this in a telephone interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos. “We […]
The National Youth Leader of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Hon. Sunday Udeh-Okoye, has lashed out at President Muhammadu Buhari over his comments in London describing Nigerian youths as lazy and uneducated. Faulting the President, Udeh-Okoye insisted, in a statement he issued in Abuja on Friday, that the Nigerian youths remained the “most innovative, enterprising, […]
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said that it was still in possession of 7,920,129 Permanent Voter Cards yet to be collected from its offices across the nation. The commission disclosed this in a tabular data on consolidated PVCs as at March 22, 2018, released on Tuesday in Abuja. The data showed that 8,271,401 […]
The organisers of the one million youths to march for Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers state to galvanise support for his second term bid said they have so far mobilized the active participation of over 600, 000 young men and women. Chairman of the movement, Hon. Edison Ehie, representing Ahoada-East state constituency 2 and Secretary, […]
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has said that the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC) and ex-militants are putting on fake police and army uniforms to unleash mayhem on the opposition and disrupt voting, especially in the South-west, without hindrance. In a statement issued in Lagos on Friday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the […]