The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) days, says it is fully ready to resume the nationwide Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) scheduled for June 28th.
INEC Deputy Director, Voter Education Division, Mrs Mary Nkem, stated this at a road show on the CVR organised by the commission in Abuja.
Nkem said that the road show was to sensitise and to mobilise eligible voters in the FCT for the exercise.
“It is also to let FCT residents know those who are being targeted in the exercise.
“Those who have turned 18 after the last registration exercise, or those who are more than 18 years but have never registered.
“This exercise is also for those who have issues with their accreditation during the past elections, those who have issues with their Permanent Voter Cards or their biometric details,” Ekem explained.
She said that the exercise would be taking place from 9 a.m. to 3p.m. from Monday to Friday, excluding weekends.
“It will involve two processes, that is, online pre-registration and physical registration.
“So, people can sit in the comfort of their homes and login details for registration.
“Then go to any of our local government or state office to capture their biometrics and photographs; or you appear physically at any designated register,” she said.
She said that the commission would come up with the guidelines for the collection of PVCs.
According to the, reports that the road show was used to sensitise FCT residents in different languages including English, broken English, Hausa, Ibo and Yoruba.
Fliers containing details of the process, time and date for the exercise were also distributed to residents.
The road show, which took off from INEC Headquarters, went through Federal Secretariat, Asokoro, AYA Roundabout, Garki Market, Area 11, Wuse Market and Utako Market.
At the road show were INEC staff members from the voter education and publicity department, members of the National Youth Service Corps, among others.
The Guardian
Court clears Senator Nwaoboshi of N322m fraud charge
A Federal High Court in Lagos has discharged Senator Peter Nwaoboshi of the N322million money laundering charge filed against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke held that the agency failed to prove the elements of the offences for which it charged the lawmaker.
Nwaoboshi, a Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain, represents Delta North in the upper chamber.
The judge also discharged Nwaoboshi’s two firms, Golden Touch Construction Project Limited and Suiming Electrical Limited on the same ground.
The defendants were arraigned in 2018 before Justice Mohammed Idris who was later elevated to the Court of Appeal.
They were then re-arraigned before Justice Aneke on October 5, 2018.
In the two-count charge marked FHC/L/117C/18., the EFCC alleged that the defendants committed the offence between May and June 2014, in Lagos.
Nwaoboshi was said to have acquired a property described as Guinea House, Marine Road, in Apapa Lagos, for the sum of N805million.
The prosecution said he “reasonably ought to have known that N322million out of the purchase sum formed part of proceeds of an unlawful act”.
The sum was said to have been transferred to the vendors by order of Suiming Electrical Ltd.
Suiming Electrical was alleged to have on May 14, 2014, aided Nwaoboshi and Golden Touch to commit money laundering.
However, Justice Aneke held, among others, that the prosecution’s case collapsed because “bank officials were not called to testify.”
The Nation
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