•Senate President Godswill Akpabio The President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, has clarified that the Senate did not reject the electronic transmission of election results but merely retained the provision as contained in the 2022 Electoral Act. Akpabio made the clarification yesterday in Abuja while speaking at a book launch on the burden ...
•Doctors Out of the 6,000 medical doctors the country produces yearly, about 2,000 of them are unable to access placement for housemanship, according to the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN). The Registrar of the Council, Fatimah Kyari, while speaking on the issue yesterday, blamed it on the “Centralised Housemanship System” operati...
•Nigerian Senate Hallowmace Foundation Africa, a foremost organisation dedicated to the advancement of democracy, good governance and accountable legislation across the continent, has risen in strong condemnation of the retrogressive provisions passed by the Nigerian Senate in the Electoral Act 2022 (Repeal and Reenactment) Amendment Bill 2026...
•Nigerian Senate The Senate today panicked over public backlash from its insistence to retain electronic transmission of election results, in place of the proposed real time electronic transmission of election results. As a result it hurriedly deployed thirteen Senators to the Press Centre of the Senate in defense of the Senate President, Sena...
•Samson Itodo and the Nigerian Senate The Executive Director of Yiaga Africa, Samson Itodo, claims the Senate rejected proposals for real-time transmission of election results because unpopular and corrupt politicians are scared of accountability. Yesterday, the Electoral Act 2022 (Repeal and Reenactment) Amendment Bill 2026 was passed through...
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...
•INEC chairman, Prof. Joash Amupitan The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said the timing of Electoral Act amendment could affect the 2027 election schedule. INEC chairman, Prof. Joash Amupitan, said this during an engagement with Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) today in Abuja. He said despite the delay in the passage of...
•Late Abuja-based singer, Ifunanya Nwangene The Senate has called for urgent action to ensure public and private hospitals are stocked with life-saving antidotes, following a series of preventable deaths from snakebites, poisoning, and other medical emergencies. Sponsored by Senator Adebule Idiat Oluranti (Lagos West), the motion highlights th...
•Nigerian Senate Passage of the Electoral Act 2022 (Repeal and Re-enactment) Bill, 2026, again remained inconclusive yesterday as the Senate stalled on a decision after spending over four hours considering the report of a seven-member ad hoc committee behind closed doors. The upper chamber had commenced deliberations on the consolidated report...
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