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INEC begins collation of results in Bayelsa

Daily Dispatch November 17, 2019

By NAN The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has begun the collation of the Saturday Bayelsa governorship election, News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. NAN reports that the collation had earlier fixed to start by 10 a.m. by the commission but it began by 3 p.m. The venue of the

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Bayelsa, Kogi elections: SERAP asks ICC to probe APC, PDP, security officials

Daily Dispatch November 17, 2019

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has asked the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate whether the persistent crimes of corruption, violence, and killings during elections in Nigeria, most recently in Bayelsa and Kogi states, and the repeated failure of the Nigerian authorities to address the crimes amount to violence against Nigerians and

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Kogi, Bayelsa polls: Stop thuggery, violence, Jonathan warns politicians

Daily Dispatch November 15, 2019

Former President, Dr Goodluck Jonathan has sued for peace ahead of Saturday’s gubernatorial elections in both Kogi and Bayelsa States. Jonathan, who stated this on Friday in Yenagoa at his Foundation office when a team of election observers from SING Foundation visited him also condemned the patronage of thugs and the use of violence by […]

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Supreme Court: Presidency urges PDP take on opposition mandate

Daily Dispatch November 15, 2019

The Buhari Presidency has welcomed the elucidation of the Supreme Court 30 October ruling on the petition by the PDP and Atiku Abubakar’s petitions and urged the Peoples Democratic Party to take up its mandate as the opposition party. “Now it is time for the PDP to take up the service mandated by this election.The […]

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Pastor feeds members with millipedes, beer as holy communion

Daily Dispatch November 14, 2019

The senior Pastor of Rabboni Centre Ministries in South Africa, Lesego Daniel, has shocked the world after he fed his church members with millipede and beer as holy communion. According to him, God has given man everything on earth as food and any food man sanctifies or prays on, can equally be the Body and […]

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NASS to amend Constitution on transition of legislative powers

Daily Dispatch November 14, 2019

The Nigeria’s National Assembly (NASS) has indicated interest in amending the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended) to provide for a smooth transition of legislative powers from an outgoing to an incoming National Assembly. The National Assembly also seeks to reinforce, through constitutional amendment, the powers of the President to dissolve