GO AND COLLECT YOUR PVC.
Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmood Yakubu, has disclosed that about twelve (12) million Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) are yet to be collected. He assured that the Commission would devise a strategy to ensure the PVCs were distributed.
He made the disclosure Friday at Garki Secondary School, Abuja while monitoring the Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) exercise in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). He was accompanied by INEC officials and the media.
The INEC Chairman said: “From the last general elections we have 12 million PVCs uncollected, so we will have a mechanism sorted by the end of this year to ensure all those uncollected PVCs are distributed”.
Professor Mahmood who was impressed by the large turnout of eligible voters, said “the truth is that people have greater confidence in the electoral process, everybody wants to register and vote, our responsibility is to rise to the desire of Nigerians to be registered and vote”.
He disclosed that: “So far so good. From the record, 21,978 voters have registered in the last two days and that does not include today. Twelve thousand (12,000) are male and a little over nine thousand (9,000) are female”. He appealed to more female eligible voters to come out and register so they can participate in the electoral process.
Addressing the challenges faced by the FCT residents in the on-going CVR exercise, the INEC Chairman assured that: “we will do whatever it takes to ensure that Nigerians are empowered to vote. The power to vote is the possession of the PVC.
He advised all those who have been previously registered to contact the INEC offices in their Local Government Area or INEC state offices for their PVCs and avoid multiple registrations as the Commission will not hesitate to detect and remove multiple registrants during de-duplication process. “If you have registered and you have not collected your PVC, the first thing is to see how to collect the PVC not to go and register again,” he said.
The on-going 5-day FCT CVR exercise was scheduled to hold from Wednesday, 13thJanuary to Sunday, 17th of January 2016, ahead of the March 19th FCT Area Council elections.
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The Time Is Now.
In our effort to build a truly united, strong and peaceful nation that is free of corruption, we as Nigerians, must recall our history from time to time in other to serve as a constant reminder of where and when we went wrong as a nation. This is because we cannot afford to repeat our past mistakes.
Most great nations of the world have at one time or another experienced some crisis, how much more a Nigeria with multiethnic society with huge human resources, natural resources and material endowment. We must at all times try to get our history and bearing right. We must also learn from those mistakes made by our older generations which were caused by political naivety, intolerance and impatience.
It is important we call ourselves to order and start addressing national issues like the shites and Boko haram cases in the northern part of the country and the Biafra crisis in the eastern part of the country before they get out of control and affect the unity of this great nation. At the same time the federal government need to realise the oil prices is going down sharply, global financial conditions have tightened and geopolitical tension have increased drastically.
The new year started with a major change in the Chinese stock market whereby market prices fell tremendously and leading to a global selloff. In just two weeks we have seen the global stock market losing close to $3trillion. Also as at this week, the price of a barrel of crude oil went below $30 per barrel at the global market and we placed our bench mark on $38 per barrel of crude in the 2016 appropriation bill that got missing some days ago from the senate house.
The question I ask myself is, how do we as a nation balance up for the deficit that this dwindling prices of crude oil have on our budgets because the prices of natural resources are also going downward. Since early last year, the price of copper has fallen by 30%, iron ore went down by 42% and the agricultural commodities that we can fall back on if we start planning early before the raining season starts is not faring well in the global market.
The federal government needs to put things right and move the economy forward by starting to make the right policies and decisions because the next 12months might be very tough particularly in emerging market like ours and consequently it might be tough for the masses. So the federal government must ensure they make Nigeria great and forge ahead to assume our rightful place on the African continent.
Most great nations of the world have at one time or another experienced some crisis, how much more a Nigeria with multiethnic society with huge human resources, natural resources and material endowment. We must at all times try to get our history and bearing right. We must also learn from those mistakes made by our older generations which were caused by political naivety, intolerance and impatience.
It is important we call ourselves to order and start addressing national issues like the shites and Boko haram cases in the northern part of the country and the Biafra crisis in the eastern part of the country before they get out of control and affect the unity of this great nation. At the same time the federal government need to realise the oil prices is going down sharply, global financial conditions have tightened and geopolitical tension have increased drastically.
The new year started with a major change in the Chinese stock market whereby market prices fell tremendously and leading to a global selloff. In just two weeks we have seen the global stock market losing close to $3trillion. Also as at this week, the price of a barrel of crude oil went below $30 per barrel at the global market and we placed our bench mark on $38 per barrel of crude in the 2016 appropriation bill that got missing some days ago from the senate house.
The question I ask myself is, how do we as a nation balance up for the deficit that this dwindling prices of crude oil have on our budgets because the prices of natural resources are also going downward. Since early last year, the price of copper has fallen by 30%, iron ore went down by 42% and the agricultural commodities that we can fall back on if we start planning early before the raining season starts is not faring well in the global market.
The federal government needs to put things right and move the economy forward by starting to make the right policies and decisions because the next 12months might be very tough particularly in emerging market like ours and consequently it might be tough for the masses. So the federal government must ensure they make Nigeria great and forge ahead to assume our rightful place on the African continent.
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