•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...
•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...
•One of the protesters Protesters today converged on the entrance of the National Assembly in Abuja for the “Occupy National Assembly” protest. The protest is against the backdrop of the Senate’s position on the electronic transmission of election results. There was a heavy security presence at the scene, with personnel drawn from the Nigeria ...
•Nigerian Senate The Senate will hold an emergency plenary session tomorrow, Tuesday, February 10, 2026. In a notice sent by the Clerk of the Senate, Emmanuel Odo, the lawmakers were directed to convene at the National Assembly complex on the instruction of Senate President Godswill Akpabio. “I am directed by His Excellency, the President of [...
Outrage yesterday trailed Senate’s reversal of the real time upload of election results from polling units to the IReV portal and replacement with the provision in the 2022 Electoral Act which merely stipulated electronic or manual transfer. Earlier, the Committee on Electoral Matters had recommended that the presiding officer shall electro...
•Nigerian Senate The Senate has passed the Electoral Act 2022 (Repeal and Reenactment) Amendment Bill 2026 through the third reading. It, however, rejected a proposed amendment to Clause 60, Subsection 3, of the bill, which sought to make the electronic transmission of election results mandatory. The rejected provision would have required pres...
A coalition of reform-minded legislators and former members of the House of Representatives, under the aegis of House to the Rescue (HTR), has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to ensure full electronic collation and transmission of results in the 2027 general elections to safeguard Nigeria’s democracy. In a statement ...
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