•Prof Joash Amupitan The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Joash Amupitan, SAN, has said that the introduction of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System has brought an end to the longstanding problem of identity theft in Nigeria’s elections. Speaking at the 2025 Digital Nigeria International Conference and Exhibitions ...
•Frustrated INEC officials The 2025 gubernatorial elections at Polling Unit 001, Fegge, in Onitsha, Anambra State, are not going as expected. Our correspondent on the ground observed that the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) machine was not working, reports Channels TV. As of 9:55 am, no accreditation had started, and no voting had be...
The Independent National Electoral Commission, on Thursday, tendered Bimodal Voter Accreditation System machines before the Edo State Governorship Election Tribunal in Abuja. Appearing before the court on a subpoena issued by the Tribunal on January 9, a senior technical officer in INEC’s ICT department, Anthony Itodo, informed the tribunal th...
•INEC chairman, Prof Mahmood Yakubu The growing concern in some quarters over the inability of Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to conduct free, fair and credible elections again gained gravitas last week in the wake of Ghana’s successful presidential elections. Without prejudice to the introduction of technology (car...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has condemned the reported refusal by officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Edo State to grant the party and its candidate, Asue Ighodalo, access to the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) machines and other materials used in the September 21, 2024, Edo State governorship ...
•Olumide Akpata casts vote The Labour Party, LP, candidate at the Edo State Gubernatorial elections, Olumide Akpata, has cast his vote at his polling unit at Oredo Ward 6, Unit 11. The voting has been largely peaceful across the state, except for a few cases of late arrival of voting materials and hitches with the […]

