he Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has postponed the general elections scheduled to commence today by a week.
The announcement by INEC Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, at the commission’s headquarters in Abuja, is coming less than five hours to the commencement of the polls s scheduled to commence today.
Professor Mahmood Yakubu, announced the decision at a short press briefing at 2:44 am this morning.
Maverick businessman and opposition leader Joseph Busha is mulling a court challenge to bar the relocation of the parliament building from Harare’s CBD to the outskirts of the city arguing the move was insensitive.
Recently, President Emmerson Mnangagwa laid the foundation stone for the huge new $140 million parliament to be built over 32 months by the Shanghai Construction group at Mount Hampden, 18km north-west of Harare.
But speaking at a press conference held in the capital Harare on Friday, FreeZim Congress President Joseph Busha who came 4thin the July harmonized elections blasted the relocation of the parliament building and revealed that his legal team is already working on challenging the move.
The National Assembly today granted full financial and administrative autonomy to all the 774 local council authorities across Nigeria by amending section 124 of the nation’s constitution.
The section provides a consequential provision for the making of the local councils, a full third tier government without undue interference from the state governments.
The amendment was one of the 22 others approved by the House of Representatives last week and ratified by the Senate on Tuesday.
Murehwa North Zanu PF legislator Daniel Garwe has caused a stir in the ruling party after ‘attacking’ the party’s presidential candidate Emmerson Mnangagwa for not ‘pruning’ his close lieutenants.
A Zanu PF source who requested anonymity told this publication that the legislator made the scathing attack on President Emmerson Mnangagwa when the party’s leader is facing a legal challenge from arch-rival MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa
Aspiring Zanu PF Highfield East MP has pledged to install free Wi-Fi at public places in his constituency.
Speaking at the side-lines of his door-to-door campaign, Mike Taka Mashonganyika (48) said he is already installing free Wi-Fi at around 10 public places that include schools in the Highfield East constituency so that the residents particularly the youths benefit from the initiative.
