An Osun State High Court sitting in Ilesa today held that vacancies exist in all the 30 local government areas in the state and mandated the Osun State Independent Electoral Commission to fill the offices. Justice Adeyinka Aderibigbe, while ruling on a motion on notice filed by the Peoples Democratic Party in a suit number […]
•INEC chairman, Prof Mahmood Yakubu Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Mahmood Yakubu was part of the election observers who monitored the recent general election in Ghana which was widely celebrated for its transparency, fairness and credibility. There was no report of Ghana’s electoral commission staff...
•Chairman, National Population Commission, Nasir Kwarra The Chairman of the National Population Commission, Nasir Kwarra, has announced plans to conduct Nigeria’s population and housing census in 2025, nearly two decades after the last census in 2006. He made this known during the 2024 anniversary of the Nairobi Summit on the International Con...
•National Assembly complex, Abuja There are indications of a spirited move by the National Assembly to fast track the necessary legislative process that would end the power of state independent national electoral commissions to handle local government elections. It was gathered that the brains behind the process hope to expeditiously work on t...
•House of Representatives The House of Representatives will on resumption from the 8-weeks annual recess commence debate on the general principles of a bill seeking to conduct elections to the offices of President, State Governors, National Assembly, State Houses of Assembly and Local Government Area Councils simultaneously. According to the b...
•Julius Abure The Transition Committee set up by the Nigeria Labour Congress to oversee the national and state congresses of the Labour Party has described plans by the embattled National Chairman of the party, Julius Abure, to hold a separate convention as disobedience to a court order. The transition committee warned members of the party [&h...
•INEC Chairman, Prof Mahmood Yakubu Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), says the commission has no constitutional power to conduct local council elections except in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). Yakubu said this on the sidelines of a two-day induction retreat for INEC Resident Electoral Comm...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ondo State has knocked the All Progressives Congress (APC) over the conduct of yesterday primary election. It said the APC’s conduct of the primary was a charade and a mockery of democracy in every sense of the word. The PDP noted that the national headquarters of the APC raked […]
•Governor of Kogi State, Usman Ododo The Chairman of the Ondo All Progressives Congress (APC) Governorship Primary Election Committee Governor Usman Ododo has hailed the conduct of the exercise. He described it as transparent and lauded stakeholders and members of the party in Ondo State for their “orderly conduct and massive turnout during th...
Governor Ahmed Usman Ododo of Kogi State has arrived in Ondo State to oversee the primary of the governing All Progressives Congress (APC). 16 governorship aspirants including the incumbent Governor, Mr Lucky Aiyedatiwa, would be taking part in the primary, reports Daily Trust. Governor Ododo, who heads the seven-man committee saddled with the...
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