Author: Lilian Azuh

Lagos State Government has announced traffic diversion for Apapa-bound lanes from Sunday, February 26, to Sunday, February 28, 2023, amid notification from the Federal Ministry of Works on the ongoing emergency repair works on the Marine Bridge. This disclosure was made on Thursday in a statement signed by the Commissioner for Transportation, Dr Frederic Oladeinde. According to him, traffic heading towards Leventis/Apapa from Ijora will be diverted to the Marine Bridge – Marine Bridge Road – Mobil Road U-turn to connect Leventis Service Lane to access Leventis. He said, “Alternatively, the Marine Bridge Total Ramp inwards to Malu Access Road…

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After weeks of preparation, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has cleared 87,209,007 voters out of the 93.5 million it registered to vote in tomorrow’s Presidential and National Assembly election and the March 11 governorship and state Assembly polls. The 87.2 million voters were the number of people who collected their Permanent Voters Cards, PVCs, as of February 5 when the deadline to collect the cards ended. The electoral umpire insisted yesterday that no one would be allowed to vote without PVC. Indeed, there were hope and anxiety among Nigerians as candidates and political parties rounded off campaigns across the country, yesterday.…

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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has advised Nigerians without the Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) to stay away from the polling units on Election Day. INEC National Commissioner Festus Okoye conveyed the commission’s warning while receiving IT facilities from Community Life Project (CLP) and Ford foundation in support of the INEC Citizens Contact Centre (ICCC) yesterday in Abuja. Okoye, who is the commission’s Chairman of Information and Voter Education Committee, said no any other means of identification would be used on Election Day, other than the PVC. “As Nigerians go to the polling units on Election Day, we want to point out…

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