The group, the Citizens Centre for Democratic Governance (CCDG) has called on the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to focus more attention in winning the votes of...
The Osun State government has declared Thursday public holiday for the governorship rerun election in the state. In statement on Wednesday, Sola Fasure, special adviser on...
Since 1999 when Nigeria returned to democratic rule, elections at all levels, have been marred with electoral irregularities – violence and ballot box snatching. Now, the...
A presidential hopeful on the platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) SKC Ogbonnia has described as “misleading, and a cocktail of confusion”, the internal...
The General Abdulsalami Abubakar led Peace Committee, Tuesday, met with the Chairman of the Independent Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, on the forthcoming 2019 general...
By Reuben Abati… What is going on in Osun state right now is nothing short of political theatre. It is keeping us all entertained, but it...
The Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP) has alleged a plot by the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to “import”...
The Peoples Democratic Party plans to approach the courts to challenge the declaration of Saturday’s governorship election in Osun as inconclusive by the Independent National Electoral...
The Osun State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has strongly condemned the conduct of the Osun State governorship election, branding it a “blatant rape...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has welcomed the decision of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to declare the just conducted governorship election in the state...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has fixed a date for the run-off governorship election in Osun State. The commission has slated Thursday September 27th for...
The People Democratic Party (PDP) has said that its candidate, Ademola Adeleke, is the winner of the Saturday Osun State governorship election. It said that the...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared the Osun State governorship election held on Saturday as inconclusive. The presiding officer, Joseph Areola Afuape while declaring...
A lawyer and Rights Activist, Dr. Kayode Ajulo, has described the gubernatorial election held on Saturday in Osun State as a stillbirth and an exercise in...
The governorship candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Ademola Adeleke is so far in the lead from the result announced by the Independent National Electoral...
A planned campaign by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) against vote buying in next year’s elections may be hampered by the continued delay in approving...
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have clashed over an allegation that the electoral body has created illegal polling units...
By Brendan Tobin… The last decade has witnessed a seismic shift in the way political campaigns are managed. Ten years ago, the majority of campaign workers...
The Senate and the House of the Representatives Joint Committee on Electoral Matters on Tuesday, adopted the fourth version of the 2018/2019 Electoral Amendment Act. The...
STRONG indications emerged yesterday that 63 presidential candidates may be vie in the 2019 general elections as 63 political parties have served the Independent National Electoral...
In its determination to curb the menace of vote buying in the 2019 general elections, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has said it is considering...
The National Chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC) Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, Thursday insisted that former President Goodluck Jonathan is guilty of introducing and perfecting vote-buying syndrome...
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has said it is committed to conducting a free, fair and credible general elections come 2019. The electoral body was...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governors Forum has said it has no confidence in the ability of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to conduct a...
By Omoshola Deji…. After about thirty years of stern military rule, Nigeria re-embraced democracy in 1999 and five elections have produced Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo (two term),...
Some prominent lawyers yesterday expressed divergent views over the legitimacy or otherwise in the purchase of nomination forms for President Muhammadu Buhari and former Vice-President Atiku...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has vowed to make the September 22 Osun State governorship election a test case against vote buying ahead of the...
By Reuben Abati … President Muhammadu Buhari reportedly declared in China, last Sunday, that he believes in the idea of free and fair elections, and that...
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has dragged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to court over the recently concluded Ekiti governorship election. SERAP is bemoaning...
As the Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) conducted by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) ended yesterday, after an earlier extension to enable more eligible voters partake...
The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Adams Oshiomhole has listed items which he said will guide the parties primary elections. According to him,...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said that it has powers to prosecute allegations of vote buying by both the All Progressives Congress (APC) and...
The Presidency on Tuesday said President Muhammadu Buhari “will do the needful” on the Electoral Act Amendment Bill currently before him for assent. The Senior Special...
For boasting that he and his party, the All Progressives Congress, APC, will win the 2019 general elections, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has told President...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) is furious over the leakage of its official correspondence with the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, asking the electoral body to...
The Rivers State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has accused the state governor, Nyesom Wike of making desperate moves to stop the release of...
Former Ogun State governor and Chairman, Constitution Drafting Committee (CDC) of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Olusegun Osoba, has called on members of the National...
Senators loyal to the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, have perfected a strategy to stop his impeachment and that of his deputy, Ike Ekweremadu, according to SUNDAY...
The suspended work on the budget of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for the 2019 general elections will resume on the 27th of August. The...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has released notice of activities for the 2019 general elections which will begin with the presidential and National Assembly elections...
The joint committee of the National Assembly on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Friday announced an indefinite suspension of meetings on the N189 billion...
Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has picked holes in the N189.2 billion budget for the 2019 general elections presented to the National Assembly by...
The Independent National Electoral Commission says the 23 newly registered political parties will not be allowed to participate in the September 22, 2018 governorship election in...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said that it is going to feed policemen who will participate during 2019 general elections with N6 billion. The electoral...
There is hope that fears over the 2019 general elections may be nothing after all, as the House of Representatives Committee on Electoral Matters is currently...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Tuesday registered 23 additional political parties. This brings the total number of parties in the country to 91. In...
A Federal High Court, sitting in Abuja, on Tuesday insisted that the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Professor Mahmood Yakubu be arrested and...
By Reuben Abati… The week that just passed will for long be remembered as perhaps the most momentous week in the history of the Muhammadu Buhari...
The resumption of the two chambers of the National Assembly is hanging in the balance as senators and members of the House of Representatives say there...
Alhaji Ahmed Babba Kaita of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has been declared the winner of the Katsina North senatorial bye election. The election was conducted...