The Independent National Electoral Commission has developed a policy on the conduct of election under the Covid-19 pandemic. The policy comes with a ten-point Code of Conduct that must be observed by voters during elections. These measures are being adopted by INEC in preparation for the forthcoming governorship elections in Edo and Ondo states. INEC Chairman, Professor…
The Presidential Task Force on Covid-19 has asked state governments that plan to reopen schools to apply caution. National Coordinator of the PTF, ALIYU SANI, said the closure of schools had proven to be one of the major ways of containing the spread of the Covid-19. SANI said this was because young people of school age are…
Medical experts are divided in their opinions over whether schools should reopen in full despite that the Covid-19 pandemic is still around. This was part of the outcome of a Zoom Media Conference organized by the Nigerian Academy of Science, Thursday 10, September, 2020, which included participants from the United States and the United Kingdom. Nigerian-born UK-based…
Elsewhere; the Independent National Electoral Commission has recruited more than seventeen thousand support staff for the governorship election in Ondo State on October 10. INEC’s National Commissioner and Chairman of the Information and Voter Education Committee, FESTUS OKOYE, said fifteen thousand of the support staff are members of the National Youth Service Corp. OKOYE, who made…
Edo State Governor, GODWIN OBASEKI, has lost a third commissioner in three months, as he prepares for his second term election on September 19. The latest to quit the cabinet is JOSEPH IKPEA, who served as Commissioner for Minerals, Oil, and Gas until Wednesday, September 9, 2020. In his resignation letter, IKPEA said politics is all about…
Nigeria’s debt has increased by two point three-eight trillion naira within three months, from April to June this year. The increase from twenty-eight point six trillion naira as at March 31 is partly due to a three-point three-six billion dollars loan from the International Monetary Fund. This was made known by the government’s Debt Management Office, which…