Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said 134 observer groups would be eligible to monitor the governorship elections in Edo and Ondo slated for September and November, respectively. Sam Olumekun, National Commissioner & Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, who disclosed this in a statement further revealed ...
The National Working Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party has approved the inauguration of new Governorship Election National Campaign Councils ahead of the Edo and Ondo states elections. The inauguration is set to take place tomorrow, Thursday, June 27, with plans to ensure victory in the upcoming elections. This was disclosed in a state...
•Chekwas Okorie Founding National Chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Chief Chekwas Okorie, has said that Nigeria is in a precarious situation, stating that the insecurity in the country might bring the country to its knees. In an interview with Saturday Sun, Okorie, described the 1999 constitution as ‘obnoxious’, adding th...
•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 ...
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