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Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has opposed claims by the Nigeria Communications Commission (NCC) that Nigeria does not have enough network coverage to guarantee the electronic transmission of election results in 2023. Besides, the electoral body revealed that the NCC was aware since 2018 that the commission has the capacity and capability to transmit results electronically. INEC Director of Publicity and Voter Education, Nick Dazang said this on Friday, during an interview on African Independent Television (AIT) breakfast programme ‘Kakaaki”. Recall that following a stalemated consideration of the report on the Electoral Act 2010 (Amendment) Bill over the controversial Clause…

OSUN State Governor, Adegboyega Oyetola, on Wednesday, said there was no “real quarrel” within the ruling All Progressives Congress in the state, and expressed hope that he would be re-elected for another term.  Oyetola, who spoke with newsmen in his Iragbiji residence, was asked if he could win another term in 2022 with the current crisis in the ruling party. In response, the governor said there were ongoing efforts to reach out to those that had disagreement basically on principles with his administration. He said, “Election winners are determined by performance or ratings by people but most importantly, God determines…

Brazilian legend Pele hailed Marta as “much more than a footballer” and an “inspiration” after she scored in a fifth Olympic Games on Wednesday. The 35-year-old scored twice as Brazil opened their Tokyo Olympics campaign with a 5-0 rout of China. Marta became the first player to score in five straight Olympics when Brazil beat China 5-0 on Wednesday in the women’s football tournament. A six-time FIFA Player of the Year, Marta has 111 international goals, more than any Brazilian player, male or female. “I hope you’re dreaming about what you did a few hours ago. Speaking of which, how…

THE Atiku Support Organisation has said real-time electronic transmission of election results is 100 per cent possible in Nigeria, contrary to the position of the “transparent election-phobic All Progressives Congress-led Senate.” The group canvassed the argument in a statement on Wednesday, by its National Publicity Secretary, Dr El Mo Victor. The statement is titled, ‘With a 98 percent tele density rate and over 80 percent MTN Nigeria 3G broadband coverage, real-time e-transmission of election results is 100 percent possible, Atiku Support Organisation tells Senate.’ The group claimed that the data from the National Communications Commission website contradicts the outdated information…

A day before the Tokyo Olympics officially open, organisers have reported 12 coronavirus cases linked to the Games. The organising committee said in their Thursday update that two athletes staying in the Olympic Village were among those who tested positive. Neither are however Japanese. Organisers said two more people from the Olympic Village are affected, but they are not athletes. All four must now go into quarantine. The latest numbers bring the total of positive tests since July 1 to 87. The regional authorities in Japan are not obligated to report when coronavirus cases are specifically linked to the Games.…

Nigerians and particularly the media, have been urged to sustain the pressure on the National Assembly, federal government and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on the merit of electoral transmission of election results in the coming 2023 polls. Chairman, DAS Energy Services, Udu near Warri and politician, Chief Sunny Onuesoke, made the appeal yesterday in Warri, Delta State. Some members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the National Assembly rejected the electronic transmission of election results in the amended Electoral Act. But Onuesoke disclosed that with the rejection of electronic transmission of…

South Africa’s jailed ex-president Jacob Zuma was granted compassionate leave from prison on Thursday so he can attend his brother’s funeral, the government said. Zuma, 79, was sentenced to 15 months in prison for contempt of court last month after snubbing graft investigators probing his presidency. He turned himself in on July 8 at a jail in the eastern town of Estcourt, around an hour’s drive from his rural Nkandla home. His incarceration sparked riots and looting that escalated into the worst violence since the end of apartheid, killing at least 276 people, according to the official count. “As a…

The prosecutor general’s office in Madagascar has said it foiled an assassination attempt on President Andry Rajoelina, and arrested several “foreign and Malagasy” suspects. Two French people are among several arrested in the Indian Ocean island nation on Tuesday “as part of an investigation for undermining state security”, diplomatic sources said. “Several foreign and Madagascar nationals were arrested on Tuesday, July 20, as part of an investigation into an attack on state security,” said prosecutor Berthine Razafiarivony, in a statement released overnight. [GuardianNg]

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• Back Kukah on his address to U.S. Congress • Say insecurity, dwindling economy, others are indices of a failed country The Catholic Bishops of Ibadan Ecclesiastical Province have condemned what they termed selective administration of justice by the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government, saying this development has greatly affected the country’s image in the international community. They also decried the socio-politico-economic situation of the country, saying Nigeria has lost its soul in the sense that it is no longer a healthy entity, thus, necessitating the need for recovery. The clerics, who said, “the good health of any nation consists…