•INEC chairman, Mamoud Yakubu The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says the federal government released N313.4 billion for the conduct of the 2023 general elections. The commission in its 2023 General Election Report released yesterday, said that out of the N355 billion approved for the conduct of the elections, only the sum of...
•Governor Aiyedatiwa The Ondo State Independent Electoral Commission has postponed the local government election till July 13, 2024, against the initial date of February 17, 2024. After the expiration of the term of the past elected chairmen in August 2023, the ODIEC fixed February 17, 2024, for another election to be conducted in the 18 [&hel...
A bill for the amendment of the Electoral Act to provide for the conduct of the general election in one day was yesterday passed for ‘Second Reading’ in the House of Representatives. The intention of the bill is for presidential, governorship, senatorial, House of Representatives and Houses of Assembly elections to hold in one day, […]...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it has suspended yesterday’s rerun elections in specific constituencies in Enugu, Kano and Akwa Ibom States due to disruptions, irregularities and abduction of election officials. The affected areas are Enugu South 1 State Constituency, Enugu State, Ikono/Ini Federal Constituency,...
•Goodluck Jonathan The Commonwealth has appointÂed former Nigerian President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, as head of its Election Observation Mission to Pakistan’s general elections scheduled for February 8, 2024. Jonathan will be leading a group of multidisciplinary exÂperts from across the CommonÂwealth to observe the elections in Pakistan and of...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has disclosed that no fewer than 67,315 eligible voters will participate in the February 3 re-run elections in Enugu State. INEC’s Head of Department for Voters Education and Publicity, Mr Rex Achumie, disclosed this to our correspondent in Enugu yesterday while speaking on the voting popula...
•Adibe and Yakubu Professor Jideofor Adibe says the National Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Mahmood Yakubu should have resigned in the wake of the 2023 elections. Nigerians went to the polls earlier in the year to elect their president, governors, and national and state lawmakers. But the exercise, especially ...
•Chekwas Okorie Founding National Chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Chief Chekwas Okorie, has said it is suicidal and dangerous for governorship candidates in the off-season elections of Kogi, Imo and Bayelsa states to trust the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). He advised all the contestants to ensure tha...
Today will be a historic day in the three states of Imo, Kogi and Bayelsa, as a total number of 5.41 million eligible voters head to the polling units to cast their ballots to elect new governors for the three states. In the past few weeks, palpable tension has spread throughout the three states and […]
•Mahmood Yakubu Hours to Saturday’s off-cycle governorship elections in Bayelsa, Imo, and Kogi states, the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, says the recently held elections have offered some lessons to the electoral body. “As with every election, lessons have been learnt from recent electi...