Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission have launched a manhunt for the former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof. Maurice Iwu...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, is perfecting plans to arrest some top oil barons suspected to have pooled over $115m (N23, 299,705,000 billion) to...
The tradition of inconclusive elections under the current leadership of the Independent Electoral Commission, INEC, continued with the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Area Councils election, as...
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has declared the candidates of the All Progressives Congress, APC, winner of the chairmanship positions in Bwari and Abaji Area...
It is somewhat odd that President Muhammadu Buhari should describe Rivers as the most deadly state in Nigeria. With due respect, Buhari’s...
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has released more results from the Rivers rerun elections. The results released on Tuesday were earlier suspended by INEC, in...
Elections are always and will remain the vehicle that drives democracy. Invariably, there is no democracy without elections. The March 19 legislative...
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Friday, maintained it resolve not to return to Rivers State until security of voters and others involved in the electoral...
INEC has declared the recent Rivers State rerun election inconclusive. How many inconclusive elections have we had under the new INEC chairman? How about...
The rerun elections of Saturday in Rivers state that was marred by violence and killings has continued to throw up more dust around what transpired in...
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State have called on the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to without delay, declare all...
It is becoming a familiar trend. In fact, it is more or less becoming a tradition. Every election conducted under President Muhammadu Buhari’s watch has been...
The violence that marred the National and State assembly rerun elections in Rivers State continued Sunday evening as Governor Nyesom Wike’s Chief of Staff driver was...
Following widespread violence and disruptions, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, last night suspended further action on National and state assembly rerun elections in Rivers State....
There was drama on Sunday, as an official of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Mrs. Ekwi Adebisa, was arrested by the police in Port Harcourt,...
After suspending election initially in 6 local government areas of Rivers State during the rerun of National and State legislative assemblies on Saturday, the Independent National...
An official of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Mrs. Ekwi Adebisa has been arrested by the police in Port Harcourt, for allegedly being in pssession...
The Ekiti State governor, Ayodele Fayose has come down hard on President Muhammadu Buhari and the INEC over the conduct of the Rivers rerun polls. The...
The much anticipated rerun polls ended in fiasco for six Rivers LGAs as the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Saturday cancelled the elections because of irregularities....
The Rivers State rerun elections has turned bloody, as an agent of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has been shot dead. This is even as the...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Thursday, kick started the race to find successors for governors Adams Oshiomohle of Edo State and Dr Olusegun Mimiko of...
The keenly contested governorship election in Bayelsa State has been won by the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Governor Seriake Dickson. He was declared...
In a move that is sure to elicit critical reactions from stakeholders and the Nigerian public and amidst growing apprehension within the ranks of the Peoples...
The ghost of the Bayelsa State inconclusive election is still alive and kicking, as the state Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Mr. Baritor Kpagih, has cried out...
In from Olumide Olaoluwa . . . Governor Udom Emmanuel woke up Friday oblivious his status was about to change. By 4pm, the Court of Appeal...
The power granted Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in the Electoral Act 2010 to deregister political parties suffered defeat as the Federal High Court in Abuja...
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Tuesday said it has learnt its lessons from the Kogi State election debacle, promising to advocate for a review of...
The violent eruptiins that has characterised the governorship election in parts of Bayelsa State has forced the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) officer in Southern Ijaw...
In from Timothy Enietan-Matthews . . . The Court of Appeal sitting in Makurdi, Saturday, nullified the election of former Senate president, David Mark, ordering a...
A new twist has been added to the ongoing controversies over the Kogi state givernorship election, as the running mate to the late governorship candidate of...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has called on the All Progressives Congress (APC) to nominate another candidate to replace Prince Abubakar Audu, its candidate in...
Governor Nyesome Wike of Rivers State, Tuesday, in Abuja, suffered another legal setback, as the Supreme Court dismissed the suit he filed to challenge the jurisdiction...
A bombshell was dropped on Friday at the ongoing Rivers State Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja, when an official of the Independent National Electoral Commission,...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said it will raise the bar in the conduct of elections in the country by using the forthcoming governorship...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said that although, the tenure of its acting national chair, Mrs. Amina Zakari ended yesterday, she still stays on...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has released the timetable for governorship elections in Kogi and Bayelsa states. Both elections will hold this year, INEC said...
The Acting Chairman of INEC, Mrs. Amina Zakari likes the Residency Card Initiative of the Ondo State government and says the commission will introduce it to...
History is to be made today as INEC conducts supplementary elections across 11 states today (Saturday) including those to elect governors for Abia, Imo and Taraba...
There was real drama on Friday at the INEC office in Enugu, when two people showed up to lay claim to the certificate of return for...
Following the inconclusive governorship elections in Imo State, INEC has fixed April 25 for a re-run in some constituencies in the state House of Assembly elections...
Senator Aisha Jummai Alhassan of the APC still has a date to keep with history in her bid to become the first ever elected female governor...
Rivers: Wike wins Candidate of the PDP, Barr Nyesom Wike has been declared winner of last Saturday’s governorship election in Rivers state, polling a total of...
APC governorship candidate in Lagos state, Akinwunmi Ambode seems to be coasting home to victory, with over 90% of the votes already in. Results from 20...
Barely a week after he supervised the presidential and National Assembly election in the state, the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in Kano State, Mikaila Abdulahi, was...
Nigeria’s President-elect, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari must hit the ground running because the task ahead is legion. To several members of the All Progressives Congress (APC), the...
The PDP and its presidential candidate in the just concluded presidential election, Goodluck Jonathan have disagreed sharply over the outcome of the exercise, and the results...
Going by results from 31 states and FCT so far released by INEC, Muhammadu Buhari of the APC is projected to emerge victorious at the end...
Presidential candidate of the APC, Muhammadu Buhari has shot into the lead as INEC continues counting of the results from the presidential election held across the...
According to the official results for the presidential poll released so far by INEC, the APC has won more states, but the PDP has garnered more...
As is to be expected, the two main political parties have continued their accusations of each other, now accusing the other of either plans to rig,...