The system can also be employed to deliver other items such as urgent letters, examination papers and
election materials such as ballot papers, officials maintain.
The ongoing governorship election in Edo State has witnessed late arrival
of election materials in some voting centres in the state.
In less than 48 hours to the supplementary poll scheduled to hold in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa state, The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Bayelsa on Thursday said it had commenced distribution of sensitive
election materials in the state.
The Committee, comprising two CBN Directors and the Secretary to the Commission, will discuss the requirements for the printing, storage and transportation of
sensitive election materials, as well as their disposal thereafter.
INEC officials also arrived early
with election materials and were getting set to commence the conduct of the exercise.
Police Arrest 4 Suspects over Theft, Forgery & Unlawful of
Election Materials for APC ward congress in Imo State.
The organisation, in a report signed by its Director General, Dr Nwambu Gabriel and made available to journalists in Osogbo on Friday commended INEC for being proactive in the distribution of sensitive and nonsensitive
election materials from the Central Bank of Nigeria in Osogbo to all the units in the 10 Local Governments Areas that constitute the senatorial district.
Yoruba Council of Elders, YCE, has lambasted the Minister of Communications, Adebayo Shittu, for distributing President Muhammadu Buhari's 2019
election materials during Wednesday's Federal Executive Council...
Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu (left), National Commissioners Mrs Amina Zakari (middle) and Prof. Okechukwu Ibeanu (right) inspecting
election materials at the Commission's Anaocha Local Government office
It is the expectation of Bayelsans that this time
around election materials will get to the various units across the council area as against the botched December exercise where materials and electoral officials were hijacked by political thugs.
I was charged with
distributing election materials — leaflets, posters, stickers, the manifesto — to regional offices, who in turn disseminated them to the constituencies.
The Executive Director of the Policy and Legal Advocacy Centre of the National Democratic Institute, Clement Nwankwo, somewhat a veteran in the monitoring of elections in Nigeria, told Channels Television on Saturday evening of several instances of violence and the pilfering of
election materials by officials.
He however drew the CBN's attention to the huge volumes of unused and obsolete sensitive
election materials lying in different parts of the country.
Unlock Democracy monitored the elections using 251 volunteers across Scotland, who made a note each time they
received election material or came across political advertising.
«It is our candid view that the loan is meant to rig the 2015 general elections, and allegedly retirement benefit for Governor Chime; for the budget information at our disposal has it that N500m is earmarked for disbursement to each local government few weeks before the elections, making it N8.5 billion, in what they
tagged election materials and N2.5 billion for sundries.
At Uhonmora Ora in Owan West Local Government Area,
election materials arrived at Ward 2, Units 10 - 13 as early as 7.39 a.m. and security agents and INEC officials were also ground.
Finebone said, «The idea of the PDP is to
plant election materials in some homes of individuals claiming they are the APC members so as to take some of our chieftains out of circulation before the rerun election.
Wike specifically accused the state APC of printing fake result sheets and
other election materials inside a building located at No. 12, Isiokpo Street, D - Line, Port Harcourt.
«We now ask: what security challenges can be more intimidating than the Borno State experience
where election materials were taken to IDP camps in 2015 and elections were successfully held?
I have been going over the
LNP election material and I simply can't find this no uranium mining promise anywhere.
Avoiding waste Environment Minister Veysel Eroğlu first brought up the issue earlier this month, asking the leaders of the country's political parties to avoid the unnecessary use of bulletins, brochures, and envelopes and refrain from
throwing election materials en masse out of vehicles.
I was surprised to learn, browsing through
Bencher election material, that in the UK solicitors have lost the right of exclusive self - governance.
In 2013, SCL Elections spun off its American operations into a district entity, Cambridge Analytica, while also also removing the phrase «soccer mums» that appears in
SCL Elections materials.
It is not clear to the Commission whether these two alleged incidents are related, but the Commission wishes to state that it is not aware of any missing
sensitive election material and has not received any official report in that regard.
Speaking on the Report, the Reviewer, Dr Otive Igbuzor said the document was a research study carried out to examine the accessibility of PWDs to polling units and
elections materials during the 2016 governorship elections in Edo and Ondo states.
Ballots postmarked after the return date will be kept unopened
with election materials and discarded four (4) weeks after election results are announced at the annual meeting.
«To uncover the hijacking
of election materials in Andoni, Oyibo and Ogu - Bolu, the hostage taking in Akoku Toru, the physical attack and kidnapping of election personnel.»
Assange, 45, who remains at the Ecuadoran embassy in London where he sought refuge in 2012 to avoid possible extradition to Sweden, said
the election material was «significant» and would come out before the Nov. 8 U.S. presidential election.
Distribution of
election materials, accreditation of journalists covering the poll, accreditation of election monitors and observers and all other crucial aspects are being concluded as the election holds on Wednesday.
Ibrahim Idris, IGP The IGP who spoke at a dialogue session he had with a coalition of Civil Society Organization, CSOs, under the aegis of Situation Room, said he has put necessary manpower and logistics in place to secure electorates, electoral officials, observers and
election materials that will be used for the Anambra poll.
9.31: Early arrival of
election materials was also witnessed in Yenagoa, Bayelsa capital.
He, however, pledged that INEC would work with security agencies to uncover and punish people who disrupted the distribution of
election materials and electoral processes in the Rivers rerun elections.
They complained about late arrival of
election materials.
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Election materials, including result sheets and his personal belongings were taken away at gun point, yet he stood his ground, supported by the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) for the area who offered to be arrested along with Ekumankama.
He decried the high level of violence and thuggery witnessed in the exercise, adding that» on the eve of the election, thugs disrupted the delivery of
election materials to Registration Area Centres, a situation that prevented early deployment to the Polling Units on election day.
He said, «INEC will work with the security agencies to uncover and punish those who disrupted the distribution of election materials
He also expressed appreciation to the Bank for providing sufficient security for all sensitive
election materials.
The INEC Chairman commended the Bank for its timely production of the Commission's sensitive
election materials, especially those used for the recent Anambra governorship election and the by - election in Borno state.
Prof Yakubu also canvassed for the Bank's continued support in the effective management of electoral logistics involving transportation and storage of sensitive
election materials.
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