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INEC creates additional 440 polling units in Bayelsa State

INEC The National Independent Electoral Commission (INEC), yesterday, disclosed that it has created additional 440 polling units in Bayelsa State, taking the total number in the state to 2,244 polling units. While the additional units create access for more voters, the commission said it was expanding voter access to polling units by converting existing voting points and settlements into polling units. Speaking at a stakeholders meeting on Expansion of Voters Access to Polling Units Exercise in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) Dr. Cyril Omorogbe, said INEC had seized the opportunity to relocate existing polling units to places where they were more accessible to the voters and decongest the existing ones.

Bayelsa Assembly Passes Anti-violence Act, Endorses Life Imprisonment For Rapists

The bill was adopted in a unanimous voice vote having gone through the third reading. by SaharaReporters, New York Feb 18, 2021 Members of the Bayelsa State House of Assembly on Wednesday passed into law the Violence Against Persons Prohibition Bill, VAPP. The bill was adopted in a unanimous voice vote having gone through the third reading. In his remarks after the passage of the bill, the Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Abraham Ingobere, regretted that the passage of the bill suffered some setbacks last year due to the Covid-19 pandemic and the flood which ravaged the state. He commended the sponsor of the bill and the stakeholders that promoted the bill for adding value to the society through the bill and thereafter committed the bill to the Joint House Committee on Women, Children Affairs and Social Development, and Committee on Justice and Judiciary to finetune it. 

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