A suit filed by Natasha Akpoti, Social Democratic Party (SDP) candidate in the Nov. 16 governorship election seeking the disqualification of Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello,...
Senator Hope Uzodinma cannot receive the Certificate of Return (CoR) immediately, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said on Wednesday. The electoral body said it would...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has fixed January 25, 2020, for the court ordered rerun and supplementary election in Imo State, for Okigwe/Onuimo/Isiala Mbano federal...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has revealed that the re-run election of the House of Representatives election in three local government areas of Ogun State...
The Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN) has revealed that it has dragged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to the Supreme Court for excluding the...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared that the All Progressive Congress (APC) will not participate in the rerun election for Agwara state constituency in...
Justice Ahmed Mohammed of the Federal High Court, Abuja, on Tuesday, temporarily restrained the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from conducting by-elections to fill 14 vacant...
A bill to bar National and Resident Commissioners of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from contesting elections, has passed the first reading at the House...
All Progressives Congress (APC) has applauded the Appeal Court judgment upholding the qualification of Bayelsa Deputy Governor-elect Biobarakuma Degi-Eremienyo. The Appeal Court sitting in Abuja on...
A high court in Adamawa has ordered the arrest of a former minister of petroleum resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke. The court ordered her arrest for allegedly giving...
Two staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) were on Thursday sentenced to 42 years in jail, for collecting bribes. The sentence was handed down...
The National Security Adviser (NSA), Babagana Munguno on Wednesday described the November 16 governoship elections in Kogi and Bayelsa states as a ‘fiasco where the unthinkable...
Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio, has withdrawn from the planned Akwa Ibom North West senatorial rerun election. Akpabio made his decision known in a...
The Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio has been accused of plotting to get the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to substitute his name...
Following the violence and deaths that characterized the November 16 Bayelsa and Kogi States governorship elections, the calls for President Muhammadu Buhari to sign the 2018...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has set Saturday 25th January, 2019, for the staging of all the 28 outstanding court-ordered rerun elections. This was revealed...
Nigerians have lost confidence in the ability of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to conduct credible elections in Nigeria due to obvious flaws and compromises...
The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, said on Tuesday the Commission would never connive with any political party or institution...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Monday urged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to make electronic voting legal in the country. The PDP National Chairman,...
Newly elected senator for Kogi West, Smart Adeyemi, Sunday stated that Dino Melaye was unable to manage his earlier election into the senate but decided to...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Sunday declared Ibrahim Danjuma of the All Progressives Congress (APC) winner of Saturday’s by-election into the Sabuwa State Constituency,...
National chairmen of about 55 political parties have rejected the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) demand for the resignation of the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in Saturday’s supplementary election in Kogi West Senatorial District, Dino Melaye, has vowed to challenge the outcome of the election...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has argued that the confession by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) that its card readers were being circumvented confirmed its...
The Independent Electoral Commission (INEC), on Thursday, began the distribution of election materials for Saturday’s Kogi West supplementary poll and the Ajaokuta Federal Constituency rerun election....
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said Thursday it would continue to deploy Smart Card Readers for elections despite resistance by some partisan interests. The National...
Peoples Democratic Party ( PDP) candidate in the Kogi West Senatorial rerun election coming up on Saturday, Dino Melaye, has issued a fresh petition to the...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said Wednesday it accepted the results of the November 16 governorship polls in Bayelsa and Kogi states because it was...
The Kogi State chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) and the Jama’atu Nasril Islam (JNI) both passed a vote of no confidence on the...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Tuesday affirmed its readiness for Saturday’s supplementary rerun election in Kogi West senatorial district. The Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC)...
At least chairmen of 62 political parties that took part in the November 16 governorship elections in Bayelsa and Kogi on Monday indicted the security agents...
Candidate of the All Progressive Congress (APC) in the Kogi West rerun election, Smart Adeyemi, has reacted to claims by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has fixed November 30 for the conduct of the supplementary and re-run elections for Kogi West Senatorial District and Ajaokuta...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has decried happenings in Nigeria and said that “all is not well with our nation.” The party called for a total...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Thursday in Yenagoa, presented the Certificates of Return to the winner of last Saturday’s governorship election in the state,...
The Electoral Act Amendment Bill passed Wednesday scaled through its second reading at the Nigerian Senate. The bill which was read for the first time on...
Senator Dino Melaye has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to cancel the last Saturday’s Kogi West senatorial election. He made the call on...
The Appeal Court has sacked two Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) members in the Kaduna State House of Assembly. The appellate court sitting in Kaduna, the state...
President Muhammadu Buhari last Friday returned to Nigeria from London, United Kingdom, where he went for a ‘private visit.’ While he was away, Aso Rock bubbled...
Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD), on Monday released its report on the conduct of the elections in Bayelsa and Kogi states. The group described the...
Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, has frowned at reports of electoral violence during the governorship polls held in Bayelsa and Kogi states on Saturday. He warned...
Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has called for the sack of the current Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Chairman, Mahmood Yakubu. HURIWA urged President...
A forum compromising 16 political parties in the Kogi State governorship elections has opposed calls for the cancellation of the governorship election by some civil society...
Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the recently concluded governorship election in Kogi State, Musa Wada, has attacked the Chairman of the Independent National...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has been urged not to accept results from areas where the governorship elections did not take place in Bayelsa State....
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has reacted to the conduct of the governorship elections in Bayelsa and Kogi States, declaring that Nigerians have lost hope in...
The independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate in Bayelsa State, Chief David Lyon, as winner of Saturday’s governorship election...
Following the release of the results for Ekeremor local government area of Bayelsa, the All Progressives Congress (APC) has won the state governorship election after winning...
Governorship candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Musa Wada, and his running mate, Sam Aro, have rejected the result of the election as announced by the...
Candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in the Kogi governorship election, Natasha Akpoti, has rejected the outcome of the exercise in the state, urging the...