Nigerian Newspaper Headlines & Naija Information As we speak, Thursday 23 February 2023 will be accessed under.
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Nigerian Newspaper Headlines & Naija Information As we speak, Thursday 23 February 2023
1. Forward of Saturday’s presidential and Nationwide Meeting elections, the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee, INEC, on Wednesday, commenced the distribution of delicate supplies in states, together with Lagos, Benue, Ondo, Ekiti and Osun. In no fewer than 9 states, the electoral fee stepped up preparations by way of the distribution of delicate supplies to native authorities areas.
2. As a part of the preparations for the polls, President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday met with safety chiefs on the Presidential Villa, Abuja, the place he mentioned INEC had no excuse to not conduct profitable polls. It was learnt that the unscheduled assembly was on the occasion of the INEC chairman, Mahmood Yakubu who defined that it was all a part of efforts in the direction of free, truthful and credible elections.
3. The Supreme Court docket on Wednesday mounted March 3, 2023 for its judgment within the 10 governors’ swimsuit towards the Federal Authorities and the Central Financial institution of Nigeria over the brand new naira notice deadline. The shifting of the judgment date dashed the hope of those that had thought the apex court docket would finish the case forward of the presidential election slated for Saturday.
4. The Chairman of the Financial and Monetary Crimes Fee, Abdulrasheed Bawa, on Wednesday, raised the alarm over alleged plans by politicians to purchase votes in type and money forward of Saturday’s common elections. He made the declare throughout an interview on Channels Tv’s election programme, The 2023 Verdict.
5. The Financial Group of West Africa Observer Mission to Nigeria has implored the Federal Authorities to be proactive in addressing the gas and money shortage residents of the nation are dealing with. ECOWAS additional famous that the insecurity disaster within the nation needs to be resolved earlier than the February 25 election.
6. The violence within the South East area has continued even within the week of the 2023 Common Elections. Mr Oyibo Chukwu, candidate of the Labour Occasion in Saturday’s Enugu East Senatorial District election, was killed 48 hours to the election.
7. A Chief Justice of the Peace’s Court docket sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State capital, has remanded the lawmaker representing Etche/Omuma federal constituency within the Home of Representatives, Hon Ephraim Nwuzi, to the Nigerian Correctional Centre within the state. This adopted a remand continuing most popular towards him by the state Police Command.
8. President Muhammadu Buhari has urged the candidates contesting within the February 25 and March 11 common elections in any respect ranges to respect the selection of voters and settle for the results of the elections as introduced by the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC). Buhari promised to be impartial within the election.
9. The Nationwide Chairman of the Labour Occasion, Julious Abure, has charged social gathering supporters nationwide to contemplate themselves as social gathering brokers in no matter polling unit they’d be voting on Saturday. Abure, who acknowledged this at a briefing yesterday, expressed gratitude to social gathering members and supporters for standing by the social gathering, regardless of a number of makes an attempt to intimidate and bully them.
10. Hearth, on Tuesday, gutted no fewer than 17 outlets on the Timber Market in Umuokpu, within the Awka space of Anambra State. It was gathered that no life was misplaced within the fireplace incident that began round 10.16pm and raged until emergency responders, together with the state fire-fighters besieged the premises to place out their fireplace.
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