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ob Title: Advocacy and Capacity Building Specialist (ACBS)

Locations: Abia, Delta, Imo, Niger, Sokoto, Taraba

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Obasanjo seeks constitutional amendment.

Olusegun Obasanjo on Wednesday seeks constitutional amendment to give room for youths to contest political offices.

Obasanjo, however, warned politicians against using Nigerian youths as thugs, while keeping their children in “safe havens.”

He submitted that Nigerian youth are capable of taking the country to the promised land if allowed to take charge of leadership in the country.

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Ambode says Nigeria needs honest leaders

Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State on Wednesday said that if Nigeria must develop and have sizable improvement in its Gross Domestic Product, people of good conscience and high integrity must be at the helm of affairs of all areas of the economy.

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ICPC charges dismissed OAU sex-for-mark professor

The Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission is set to charge a former lecturer of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Prof. Richard Akindele, at the Federal High Court, Osogbo, for allegedly demanding sex from one of his students, Ms Monica Osagie, to upgrade her academic result.

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INEC: Reasons Politicians Resort to Vote Buying

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has alleged that politicians now resort to vote buying during elections because they have suddenly realised that they can no longer manipulate the system, and that votes now count in elections.

This is as the commission said Rivers State has registered 2.8 million voters in March this year while about 400,000 voters in the state were yet to collect their permanent voter cards (PVCs).

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INEC moves to end the practice of vote-buying, selling

Ahead of 2019 general election, INEC has said it is determined to stop the practice of vote-buying and selling before the election.

The Director of Electoral Party Monitoring ((EPM), Mr. Aminu Idris, stated this yesterday in Calabar during a Methodology Workshop on Campaign Finance Tracking and Debriefing on Political Parties’ Primaries.

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