The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board (MPWB) has commenced registration for the 2026 Hajj, requiring intending pilgrims to pay a minimum deposit of N8.5 million. The announcement was made in a statement today by the board’s Public Relations Officer, Malam Muhammad Aliyu, quoting the Director, Alhaji Kadiri Edah, who...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has disclosed that it would commence the Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) on August 18, 2025. According to a statement released in Abuja today by Sam Olumekun, National Commissioner and Chairman, Information & Voter Education Committee, the electoral umpire will kickstart the process ...
The University of Ilorin (UNILORIN) has opened its portal for the registration of candidates seeking admission through the 2025/2026 Post-UTME screening exercise. UNILORIN, though its Director of Corporate Affairs, Kunle Akogun, announced in a statement yesterday that the “registration for the Post-UTME Screening Exercise commenced on Monday 2...
•Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced the deployment of its newly developed political party registration portal, following successful internal testing and approval. This comes as the commission received 10 additional letters of inten...
Ahead of the 2027 general election, the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC said today that it had received 12 additional applications for registration as political parties. The new applications now brings the figure of applicants to 122, reports Vanguard. Curiously, the secretary of one of the associations was said to have “defecte...
•Professor Mahmood Yakubu The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, has revealed that the commission has so far received letters of intent from 110 associations seeking registration as political parties ahead of the 2027 general election. Yakubu made the disclosure today during INEC’s second quart...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is holding onto the application of 104 groups and associations seeking to be registered as political parties. It was gathered that the104 applications were filed after the 2023 elections to enable more groups take part in future electoral activities as political parties, reports Weekend Trus...
The Lagos State Government has announced that the registration for the 2025 Universal Basic Education by Continuous Assessment Scores (UBE BY CAS) and Placement Test, which commenced on January 27, will end on April 25. The director of the Lagos State Examinations Board, Orunsolu Adebayo, disclosed this in a statement. Adebayo advised parents/...
As momentum builds ahead of the 2027 elections, the Independent National Electoral Commission has confirmed it has received 91 applications for the registration of new political parties. The Peoples Democratic Party stated that the number of applications received by INEC reflected a lack of unity among opposition leaders, while the New Nigeria...
•Nigerian Senate The Senate today passed a bill mandating the compulsory registration of citizens, aiming to overhaul Nigeria’s identity management system through the repeal and reenactment of the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) Act. The passage followed the submission and consideration of a report by the Committee on National I...
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