THE Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Thursday warned political parties against flouting campaign expenses laws, saying it would sanction defaulters. Alhaji Yahaya Bello, the FCT INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), gave the warning at a news conference in Abuja. Bello said the commission was putting all efforts in place to ensure the smooth conduct of the Presidential and National Assembly Elections in the FCT. “We have to observe campaign expenditure, this is very important and it is for political parties. “We will host political parties in a conference to lecture them on political campaigns and spending during campaigns because…
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AROUND 100,000 British civil servants across dozens of government departments have voted for strike action, a major union, the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union has announced on Thursday, reports British newspaper, Mirror. The union said it asked more than 150,000 government employees at 214 departments across the country whether to walk-out. Publishing the results of the ballot, the PCS union said 126 had passed the threshold for strikes, including the Home Office and Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). Strike action will reach “into every corner of public life”, the union said, with huge impacts on Job Centres,…
A CIVIL Society Organisation (CSO) Women’s Situation Room Nigeria, on Wednesday inaugurated an early warning and response centre in preventing and responding to violence against women in elections. Prof Joy Onyesoh, National Coordinator, Women’s Situation Room Nigeria made this known at the launch of the Centre in Abuja. According to Onyesoh, over the years and from past observation of elections, the group identified that elections is a conflict trigger which hinders participation of women in the electoral process. She said that Women’s Situation Room Nigeria (WSRN) is a women civil society led initiative seeking to increase women’s substantive participation in…
THE Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) office in Abeokuta South local government area of Ogun, located at Iyana Mortuary area of the state capital was gutted by fire in the early hours of Thursday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) gathered that the facility was allegedly set on fire by suspected hoodlums who scaled the perimeter fencing into the commission’s premises. The hoodlums, numbering about eight, were said to have soaked loaves of bread with petrol and threw same into the building from different points to light up the facility. A source, who pleaded anonymity, said the security guard on…
THE Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is set to commence the display voters register on Saturday, November 12, 2022. Festus Okoye, National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, made this known in a statement made available the press in Abuja on Thursday. Okoye stated that at its weekly meeting held on Thursday, November 10, 2022, the Commission deliberated on the forthcoming display of the entire national register of voters for claims and objections by citizens as required by law and approved the methodology for the exercise. “As earlier announced by the Commission, the entire preliminary register containing 93,522,272…
EGYPT and Norway have launched the first phase of a project to establish a major green hydrogen plant in Egypt’s Ain Sokhna on the Red Sea, with a capacity to produce 100MW. President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi of Egypt and the Norwegian Prime Minister, Jonas Gahr Støre at the launch of the project on Tuesday, said the launching was part of the 2022 UN Climate Conference of Parties (COP27) holding in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. This event took part of the final day of the Climate Implementation Summit, with more than 100 heads of state and government gathering on the opening days…
SENATOR Ifeanyi Ararume has instituted a N100 billion suit against the Federal Government at the Federal High Court, Abuja over his alleged unlawful removal as a non-Executive Chairman of the newly Incorporated Nigeria National Petroleum Company (NNPC). Ararume is asking for N100 billion as damages caused him in the alleged unlawful and unconstitutional way and manner he was removed as the NNPC chief after using his name to incorporate the entity. When the matter was called on Wednesday, one of Ararume’s counsel, Mr Chris Uche, (SAN) told the court that all parties in the matter had been served the necessary…
FCT Area Councils Staff Pensions Board has paid N8 billion to 1,217 retirees from 2016 to date. Director and Chief Executive Officer of the board, Dr Nanzing Nden, told a news conference on Wednesday in Abuja that N754 million of the money was paid to 194 retirees in 2022. The director called on those who retired between 2005 and 2015 to report to claim their benefits. “We still have 132 persons who retired between 2005 and 2015, but have not applied for their pensions. “We do not have their complete records. We have their files, but we don’t have their…
GREEK workers went on a day-long strike on Wednesday, demanding higher wages to cope with surging inflation, as Europe’s soaring energy prices and living costs trigger industrial action and protests across the continent. In Athens, thousands of people marched in the second 24-hour walkout this year over rising inflation, some holding up banners that read, “No to layoffs, no to pay cuts.” Brief clashes broke out outside parliament between protesters hurling petrol bombs and riot police who fired tear gas. It is the latest labour action in Europe, where a growing cost of living crisis and rising energy prices following…
By Amos Aar THE Benue State Emergency Management Agency (BSEMA) has disclosed that for the first time since 2018 when suspected Fulani herdsmen resumed their attacks on Benue communities, the federal government has offered assistance to Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the State. The Executive Secretary of BSEMA, Dr Emmanuel Shior, disclosed this on Tuesday at the agency’s headquarters in Makurdi during the flag-off of the monthly distribution of food items to IDPs in the state. Shior while lamenting that no support had come from the federal government since the renewed attacks on Benue communities that rendered many indigenes homeless and…