Local News Feb 26, 2023

Soldiers Recover Ballot Boxes from Thugs in Gombe State.

Soldiers in Gombe State, Nigeria have recovered two ballot boxes that were snatched by thugs armed with guns and cutlasses from a polling unit, which also happened to be the school of Governor Muhammadu Yahaya. The incident highlights the lengths to which some will go to interfere with the democratic process. The security personnel's bravery in retrieving the ballot boxes is commendable.

Local News Jan 18, 2023

PDP Crisis: Seyi Makinde Dumps Wike, Ready To Lead Atiku’s Campaign

[ODUNEWS] January 18 – According to early reports, Oyo state governor Seyi Makinde  would headline Atiku Abubakar’s presidential campaign rally in Ibadan.  Governor Makinde, who is a member of the G5 governors’ clique led by Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike, has been embroiled in a bitter rivalry with the PDP’s flagbearer. It was learned that at the occasion, all of the party’s candidates at all levels will be appropriately introduced.  Governor Makinde, the G-5 Forum’s young leader, has always emphasised that the party must do the right things in order to reclaim its proper place at the national level, particularly strict adherence to the zoning principle.  His stance has splintered the party’s state chapter, with other party leaders saying that only the NEC of the party, not Atiku, has the authority to fire the national chairman, Iyorcha Ayu.  With recent developments, however, the party has returned to normalcy, with all parties cooperating.   Hazeem Gbolarumi, the ex-deputy governor of Oyo State and an ardent opponent of the incumbent will...

Economy Jan 17, 2023

INEC Most Likely To Adopt The Use Of ‘Body Odour’ To Verify Voters – Yakubu

[ODUNEWS] January 17 –INEC Chairman Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, addressing on Tuesday at the Chatham  House in London, praised the commission’s in-house engineers for the creation of the BVAS and for always coming  up with novel ideas and designs to improve the election process.According to him, a commission engineer offered  using body odour to authenticate voters, but he had to ask them to wait.   The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) may use body odour for voter verification in the near futureas part of its growing aim to integrate technology into Nigeria’s electoral process. Voters were once confirmed simply by looking at their paper ballots and verifying the voter register.  However, in 2012, INEC introduced Smart Card Readers SCR to validate the Permanent Voter Cards PVCs, which carried voters’ faces.  During this time, INEC also used the Automated Facial Identification System (AFIS) to purge the voter rolls.   As politicians devised ways to circumvent the system, the electoral umpire went a step further by instituting the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS), which verifies both the facials and the ballots....