By Usman Babaji, WikkiTimes Several voters in Bauchi State will make their decisions about who to elect into various positions based on what they have heard preached in their respective worship centres. The religious metric has been condemned and described as divisive, but it still plays out in the political decision-making of some congregations led
By Ogar Monday In Marian, Calabar Municipal, just before the street to the Cross River State secretariat of the Nigerian Union of Journalists, NUJ, is a building awash with the 2023 election advertisement of party candidates of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC. The building is the office of Cross River State Infrastructural Safety and
By Elijah Akoji, Solacebase Aisha Dahiru, in Hatsu ward Miga LGA, a flood victim, lost her voter card during the flooding of her community. But the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has failed to provide her a new voter’s card despite reapplying for a replacement after her card was destroyed by the flood in 2021.
By Ben Aroh, The Whistler Some eligible voters who lost their permanent voter cards and applied for re-issuance claim they are yet to obtain them from their chosen local government areas because of the failure of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to reprint them. Ben Aroh digs into the options left for those in
By Aminu Adamu, Wikki Times Barely one week before Nigeria’s general election, residents of rural communities in Zamfara State still live between hope and fear as insecurity that has over the years rendered thousands homeless threatens peaceful polls. “Just a few days ago, militants killed people on their way to Bagega Market, including my best
By Ben Aroh, The Whistler Simon Ekpa, self-styled leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), in a viral video, imposed a sit-at-home and curfew on the South East and some parts of the old Eastern Region during the 2023 general elections. His orders span from February 23rd to 28th 2023. Nigeria’s presidential and National
By Adebayo Aare, MAP News The 20,973 personnel of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, who participated in the Osun and Ekiti election received their election assignment allowance on Friday, February 18th 2023. This payment is coming about seven months after the elections had been held. NSCDC deployed 11,226 personnel to provide security
By Adeyemi Okediran, Development News Nigeria A video clip recently went viral on social media where a school teacher was instructing pupils to recite a campaign song that would convince their parents to vote for the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Oyo state, Nigeria. The teacher wore a PDP campaign face cap while instructing the