Major casualties of the 2019 elections
In a real sense, no one won the 2019 elections. The nation went through the motions of electing President, Governors and legislators, and the electoral process yielded candidates who were supposed to have won. Most of these will not know whether they can keep their mandates or forfeit them until the judicial process decides winners and losers.
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Reps to probe militarization of 2019 polls – Daily TrustThe House of Representatives, yesterday, resolved to set up an ad hoc committee to investigate holistically, the militarization of the 2019 general elections. The resolution followed a motion of urgent national importance by Patrick Asadu (PDP, Enugu) on the alleged “illegal deployment, use and misuse of soldiers of Nigerian Army during the 2019 general elections.”ADVERTISEMENT …
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FG to increase VAT, adjust 2019 budget – Daily Trust…as Senate okays N30,000 minimum wage Experts speak The Federal Government would send request to the National Assembly for adjustments to the 2019 budget to reflect ways of sourcing funds to pay the new national minimum wage which was approved by the Senate yesterday.ADVERTISEMENT Minister of Budget and National Planning Udoma Udo Udoma said …
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2019 Budget: NIPSS to acquire 2 Toyota Camry cars for N72m – Daily TrustThe Director-General of the National Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS), Kuru, Jos, Jonathan Jumah, has told the House of Representatives Committee on Inter-Governmental Affairs of plans by the agency to acquire two Toyota Camry cars at N72 million. Jumah, who disclosed this on Wednesday in Abuja during a budget performance and overview held …
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Senate in rowdy session over alleged militarisation of 2019 elections – Daily TrustThe Senate on Wednesday went into a rowdy session following a motion moved by Sen. Dino Melaye and co-sponsored by seven other lawmakers on alleged militarisation of the 2019 elections. The upper chamber became raucous when the Minority Leader, Sen. Biodun Olujinmi, stood up to calm nerves that became frayed following the movement of the …
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