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As Nigeria heads to the ballot to choose a President and legislative leaders on Saturday, February 16, 2019, we have put together a couple of numbers worth recalling, ahead of the vote. Call it the numbers game and you’d be right on the money…. 1…84,004,084 Nigerians registered to vote in the 2019 elections. 2…The Northwest […]
SaharaReporters can report that the meeting ended in deadlock, as the VP could not provide answers to many questions regarding the plight of Christians under the Buhari regime. Vice President Yemi Osinbajo was in Yola, Adamawa State, on Wednesday night in a desperate move to sway Christian votes to the All Progressives Congress (APC) ahead […]
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The Independent National Electoral Commission has disclosed that a total of 72,775,502 permanent voters’ cards (PVC) are in the possession of Nigerians to vote during the 2019 general elections. The commission’s chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, disclosed this during a media briefing in Abuja on Thursday, February 21, 2019. The number of PVCs collected represents 86.63% […]
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) cautioned the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai, to refrain from acts or actions that will suggest in any way that the military has become an arm of a political party. The party gave the warning in a statement issued to Pulse by its spokesman, Kola Ologbondiyan. Buratai […]
The management of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) said the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has promised to improve the safety and welfare provisions of corps members that would be deployed as ad hoc staff for the general elections. In a statement released in Abuja on Tuesday, February 19, 2019, Mrs Adenike Adeyemi, the […]
Senator Dino Melaye (Kogi West – PDP) has revealed that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has taken deliberate steps to foil any attempts to rig the 2019 general elections. While speaking during the PDP’s National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting in Abuja on Tuesday, February 19, 2019, Melaye said the opposition party has bought secret cameras to record […]
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The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has slammed President Muhammadu Buhari as a power monger who doesn’t subscribe to democratic ideals. The former vice president said this during the National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting of the PDP in Abuja on Tuesday, February 19, 2019. Atiku accused his opponent in the […]
President Muhammadu Buhari has warned those planning to disrupt the 2019 general elections by snatching ballot boxes or disturbing polling units they could pay with their lives. While speaking at the caucus meeting of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Abuja on Monday, February 18, 2019, he said he’s confident that he’ll win re-election so […]
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has given a go-ahead to political parties to resume their campaigns. INEC had earlier announced that there is no more room for campaigns after it postponed the general elections. The electoral body cited logistic challenges and bad weather as the reasons for moving the dates. INEC, in a statement […]
The U.S. Embassy in Nigeria encouraged Nigerians to support the Independent Electoral Commission (INEC) to conduct free, fair, peaceful and credible elections. U.S. Embassy fully supports the joint statement by the heads of the ECOWAS and other international election observation missions on the postponement of the Feb.16 Nigerian elections. Voters queue to vote at Ejule […]