By Our Reporters The Cross River State Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) of INEC Prof. Gabriel Yomere has the officials lamenting about logistical challenges are not shortlisted. Speaking to journalists as broadcasted by Hit 95.9 FM, the REC said those engaged by the Commission have been deployed and are at their community of assignment. He said for BVAS
By Our Reporters There are allegations of logistical challenges confronting the ongoing presidential and national assembly elections. Some officials said they are stranded. The Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) Prof. Gabriel Yomere is yet to respond to the issues raised. Listen to the podcast recorded from Hit 95.9FM:
By Our Reporters Accreditation and voting are ongoing in some polling units in Obudu, Ogoja, Abi, Yala, Calabar Municipality, Calabar South, Akamkpa Biase, and Yakurr LGAs. Some polling units that are in a hard-to-reach area like Ebom in ABi LGA have received materials but in the Calabar metropolis (PO 016 at Ikot Nkebre in 8
By Our Reporters As Nigerians get ready to cast their votes in today’s presidential and national assembly elections, our reporters across the 18 LGAs observe that materials and personnel are yet to arrive at many polling units. At INEC headquarters in Calabar, there is a heavy security display – armed army men of the Nigerian
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 Patrick Obia Basic Right Council Initiative (BRCI), a non-profit making organization based in Calabar, Cross River State has trained over 18 observers for the 2023 general elections. Held at the State Ministry of Justice, Calabar, participants were drawn from various communities in three local government areas to serve as local observers for the February
By Patrick Obia The Cross River State Police Command has assured the citizens of an adequate and conducive atmosphere devoid of molestation and other security threats as they march to the polls for the presidential and National Assembly elections. The Command gave the assurance in a press release made available by the Command’s Police Public
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