The Independent National Electoral Commission has invited Civil Society Organisations and Non-Governmental Organisations interested in observing the February rerun and by-election to apply via an online portal on or before January 17. INEC said this in a notice issued by its acting Director, Electoral Party Monitoring, Hauwa Habib, in Abuja to...
•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 ...
•INEC Chairman Yakubu Mahmoud The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has asked four of its Directors to proceed on with retirement in accordance with the circular on the eight-year tenure policy for directors in the public service. The National Commissioner and Chairman Information and Voter Education Committee of the Commission,...
•Wike, Fubara and Tinubu The political crisis in Rivers State has assumed a new twist, as six elders have dragged President Bola Tinubu to the Federal High Court in Abuja, for allegedly compelling Governor Siminilaya Fubara to enter into an unconstitutional agreement. The plaintiffs, led by a member of the Rivers State House of Assembly [&hell...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has approved a timetable for conducting bye-elections resulting from the resignation or demise of members of the National and State Houses of Assembly. The electoral empire in a statement today said both categories of elections are scheduled to take place simultaneously in all affected const...
•Yakubu and Tinubu The Budgetary aggregate of 40 Billion naira allocated to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC has been turned down by the commission as they described the sum as grossly inadequate to fund the affairs of the electoral body. While rejecting the amount proposed by the office of Budget and National Planning of [&...
•Prof Yakubu The chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Mahmood Yakubu, today inaugurated nine out of the 10 Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs) recently appointed by President Bola Tinubu after their clearance by the National Assembly. The swearing-in was held in Abuja during a meeting with RECs, reports NAN. How...
•Underage voters A Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to identify, within 90 days, its officials involved in the registration of the underage during the continuous voters’ registration (CVR) exercise in polling units across the country. Justice Obiora Egwuatu, in a judgement, also direc...
•Kogi REC residence and gunmen Armed men this morning attacked the official residence of the Kogi Resident Electoral Commission, Hale Gabriel Longpet, in Lokoja. Kogi is one of the three States that recently concluded off cycle governorship elections with the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Usman Ododo declared winner. Chief Press S...
The Independent National Electoral Commission has said it would conduct fresh electiion in nine wards where election was suspended in Kogi State. INEC had yesterday suspended election in nine wards in Ogori/Magongo Local Government Area of Kogi State, reports The PUNCH. This suspension was as a result of electoral malpractices, particularly th...
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