A report released by an election monitoring group, Kimpact Development Initiative (KDI), has revealed that politicians engaged in widespread vote buying using snacks, beverages, and cash during the 2025 Anambra off-cycle governorship election. The organisation, in its final post-election report, said vote trading occurred across all 326 wards,...
Most polling units across Lagos State were nearly empty, as voter apathy marred yesterday’s local government elections conducted by the Lagos State Independent Electoral Commission, LASIEC. Despite the widespread disenchantment, the council poll was, however, peaceful across the state, even as some LASIEC officials complained about poor remune...
•Tinubu, PDP logo and Okpebholo Edo State Governor, Monday Okpebholo, has pledged that the Edo people will deliver 2.5 million votes to President Bola Tinubu in the 2027 presidential election. This, he said, would be a token of appreciation for the developmental strides witnessed across the state under his administration, reports The PUNCH. “I...
•Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney (C) and his wife Diana Fox Carney (C L) Canada will hold an election Monday following a campaign electrified by US President Donald Trump’s threats, with Prime Minister Mark Carney favoured to win after promising voters he has the experience to stand up to the United States. A victory for […]
•UN General Assembly The UN General Assembly will today vote on a draft resolution that seeks an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, a symbolic gesture after the US previously vetoed a similar action in the UN Security Council. In addition to calling for “an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire,” the draft resolution seeks “the immediate ...
•A voter casts his ballot at a polling station in Bole today Ghanaians are voting in elections today with frontrunners vice president and former central banker Mahamudu Bawumia and opposition ex-President John Mahama facing off in a closely fought race. Ghana’s struggling economy emerged as the dominant electoral issue after the West African g...
•Ireland’s flag Ireland goes to the polls today with the incumbent coalition parties neck-and-neck with opposition party Sinn Fein after a campaign marked by rancour over housing and cost-of-living crises. Polls open across the country at 0700 GMT and close at 2200 GMT as voters choose new members of the 174-seat lower chamber of parliam...
•Donald Trump and Harris Kamala Some early voting has commenced in all seven swing states in the 2024 Presidential election in the United States. By Monday, 17 million Americans had already cast a vote and there are initial indications that Republicans are showing up to the polls or returning absentee ballots with more gusto than […]
The Kenyan Senate voted yesterday to oust Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua in a historic impeachment vote. The upper house has so far voted to impeach the 59-year-old on five charges out of a total of 11 against him, after two days of hearings, reports AFP. The Senate only had to find him guilty of one […]
•A polling unit in Edo State today A coalition of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs), the Nigeria Civil Society Situation Room (NCSSR), has observed voter inducement at polling units (PUs) in the September 21 governorship election in Edo State. “Situation Room observers reported widespread instances of blatant vote buying and selling across se...
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