•Egwu As Nigeria inches closer to the 2027 general elections, the credibility of the electoral process is once again under scrutiny. Questions about funding timelines, the reliability of electoral technology, political party dysfunction, and the integrity of the collation process are increasingly dominating national conversations. In this wid...
•Catholic Bishops The Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) has urged the National Assembly to ensure that the Electoral Act provides for the mandatory transmission of the election results in real-time to prevent any human tampering with the expressed will of the electorate. President of CBCN and the Catholic Archbishop of Owerri, Luci...
•Princess Adejoh A former Kogi State Governorship Aspirant and Women’s leader, Princess Grace Iye Adejoh, has condemned the Senate for formally passing the Electoral Act (Repeal and Re-enactment) Bill, 2026, into law, retaining a provision that allows electronic transmission of election results but discarding the mandatory real-time transmissi...
•Mike Igini A former Resident Electoral Commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Mike Igini, has described the renewed debate over electronic transmission of election results as a “painful and sad reality,” saying the issue ought to have been resolved years ago. Igini spoke yesterday on Channels Television, where he lamen...
•Protesters at NASS Protesters today returned to the National Assembly, calling on lawmakers to make real-time electronic transmission of election results compulsory in the Electoral Act Amendment Bill, 2026. The demonstrators, drawn from civil society groups including Situation Room Nigeria and ActionAid Nigeria, insisted that manual collatio...
•Nigerian Senate The Senate has amended the Electoral Act to permit the electronic transmission of election results, leaving safeguards to address potential technical challenges. Recall that The Frontier had earlier exclusively reported that during its plenary today, the Senate adopted both electronic and manual modes of transmission of elect...
•Nigerian Senate Following the reconvening of plenary today to review its earlier stand concerning transfer of election results from polling booths which has generated uproar from the public, the Senate has gone ahead to adopt both manual and electronic modes of transmission of election results. The Frontier reports that this was hinted by a s...
•Amaechi speaks to reporters at the protest Former Rivers State Governor Rotimi Amaechi has joined other protesters as demonstrations against the Senate’s rejection of mandatory electronic transmission of election results continued in Abuja today. The protest, which began yesterday, is opposed to the Senate’s decision to reject real-time elect...
•Ningi, a BVAS and the Senate Senator representing Bauchi Central at the National Assembly, Abdul Ningi, last night said the Senate could make the adoption of the votes and proceedings on the electronic transmission of election results public amid ongoing controversy over the issue. Ningi stated this on Channels Television ahead of the upper c...
•Peter Obi (C) at the Occupy National Assembly protest in Abuja The 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, on Monday joined the Occupy National Assembly protest in Abuja. The protest follows the Senate’s passage of the Electoral Act 2022 (Repeal and Reenactment) Amendment Bill 2026 through the third reading, in which the [...
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