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 Idris Kamal & Hafsat Muhammed, Wikki Times Barely a week before the presidential and national assembly elections this Saturday, Senator Sa’idu Ahmed Alkali, APC Gombe North, distributed sewing, grinding and noodles-making machines to poor and vulnerable women populations in Dukku, Funakaye and Gombe LGs in an alleged attempt to attract their votes, WikkiTimes’ Idris
By Patrick Obia The Cross River State Police Command has announced a total restriction of all forms of vehicular movement on roads, waterways, and other forms of transportation during election hours. This was contained in a release signed by the Command’s Police Public Relations Officer, SP Irene Ugbo, for the Commissioner of Police stating that
By Kanjal Godshield A large number of military personnel have been deployed to different road junctions in Ogoja. This may be unconnected to tomorrow’s Presidential and National Assembly general elections. At the Ishibori T junction, our reporter observed that over five armed soldiers were seen stationed on both sides of the road while carrying vehicular
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