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Breaking: CBN directs banks to accept old naira notes

Daily Dispatch March 13, 2023

The central bank of Nigeria has ordered commercial banks to pay out and accept old naira notes to customers. This was made known by the governor of Anambra state, Charles Soludo. In a statement on Monday, Soludo said Godwin Emefiele, the CBN governor, confirmed the directive personally to him

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Breaking: INEC Postpones Governorship, State Assembly Elections by one week

Daily Dispatch March 8, 2023

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has postponed next Saturday’s governorship and state assembly elections till March 18, 2023. INEC’s decision is coming about three days before the March 11 date earlier scheduled for the state elections. The Commission said it was shifting the election due to logistics crisis stemming from BVAS configuration and

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Just In: INEC Set To Postpone Saturday’s Governorship Election

Daily Dispatch March 8, 2023

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) may reschedule Saturday’s governorship and state assembly elections to March 18, 2023. The gubernatorial and state assembly elections was earlier scheduled to hold on March 11th. But a source at the electoral umpire revealed to The Whistler that the election will be postponed due to the INEC’s inability to promptly

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Court gives INEC nod to reconfigure BVAS

Daily Dispatch March 8, 2023

The Presidential Election Petition Court, PEPC, sitting at the Court of Appeal in Abuja, on Wednesday, gave the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, the nod to reconfigure the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System, BVAS, it used for the presidential election. The court, in a unanimous decision by a three-member panel of justices, held that stopping the […]

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Atiku assembles 19 SANs for battle with Tinubu (+ full list)

Daily Dispatch March 8, 2023

Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has inaugurated the legal team to challenge the victory of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu at the presidential election of February 25, 2023. Tinubu is the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC. The legal team made up of 19 Senior Advocates of Nigeria, SAN, is […]

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Breaking: INEC begins upload of polling units results about a week after poll, three days after result declaration (Click on link below story to check your unit result for corroboration)

Daily Dispatch March 5, 2023

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has begun the upload of polling units’ results on its results portals. The process, which began about a week after the February 25 presidential and National Assembly elections, and about three days after the declaration of Senator Bola Tinubu, candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, as president-elect, is […]