The impact of the fire incident that engulfed the Anambra office of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is beginning to manifest. On Tuesday, the Commission...
Tough hurdles await election observers and security operatives who have been assigned to monitor the general elections beginning Saturday, so say the Chairman, Independent National Electoral...
Ahead 2019 elections, another office of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has been gutted by fire. The latest of the unfortunate events is the Awka,...
The Incorporated Trustees of Egalitarian Mission for Africa has asked the Federal High Court Abuja to disqualify the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku...
By Jerome-Mario Utomi… With just a few days to the planned general election in the country, it will be appropriate to acknowledge two remarkable developments. First...
Even with the general elections only a few days away, some people are yet to collect their Permanent Voter Cards (PVC). Well before now, the Independent...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Saturday threatened to excluded some political parties from fielding polling unit agents in the forthcoming elections. The reason adduced...
Agada Ikechukwu… True words are not defined by the volume of a man’s voice, but by the consequences of his choices. The wild storm starts with...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has extended date for the collection of Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) to enable those yet to collect theirs to do...
The prayer by Rivers State All Progressives Congress (APC) for the governorship election in the state to be postponed has been dashed by the Independent National...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers state has asked the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to postpone elections in the state. Tonye Princewill, director of...
Enugu State governorship candidate of the All progressives Congress (APC), Senator Ayogu Eze, has been sacked by the Federal High Court 5 Abuja, presided over by...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to immediately reinstate its candidates based on Monday’s ruling...
Following her withdrawal from the 2019 presidential race, Oby Ezekwesili, candidate of the Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN), has dismissed allegations that her ambition was...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has been accused of planning to rig the governorship election in Ebonyi state in favour of the candidate of the...
An Appeal Court sitting in Port-Harcourt, Rivers State, has granted a stay of execution of the ruling of the Federal High Court that nullified all primaries...
Garba Shehu, presidential spokesman, has defended the presence of some governors from Niger Republic at President Muhammadu Buhari’s campaign rally in Kano State. In a statement...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says the presence of some governors from Niger Republic at President Muhammadu Buhari’s campaign rally in Kano State did not...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said it is going to investigate the Federal Government for possible election finance infraction through the TraderMoni scheme. INEC...
Lagos State chapter of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Thursday lamented the desperation being displayed by the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state ahead of...
The Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP) has filed a suit seeking the disqualification of President Muhammadu Buhari from the 2019 presidential election. Spokesman for the...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has excluded candidates of the All Progressives Congress, APC, from the final list of candidates for the governorship and House...
Despite two contradicting court judgments on the conduct of primaries of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Zamfara State, the Independent National Electoral Commission has insisted...
By SOC Okenwa Former President Olusegun Obasanjo (OBJ) was at his best element recently in the ‘State of the Nation’ address he issued last weekend from...
As part of its commitment to transparency during next month’s poll, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has excluded all its National Commissioners from the collation...
As part of it efforts to ensure transparency and build confidence in the February 16 presidential election, the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC),...
Controversies on Friday trailed the All Progressives Congress in Zamfara State as two law courts gave opposing ruling in the conduct of the Primary election in...
Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu of a Federal High Court in Abuja on Friday upheld the decision of the Independent National Electoral Commission rejecting the list of candidates...
Justice Mohammed Idris of the Federal High Court, Lagos, has sentenced a former INEC Administrative Secretary in Kwara State, Christian Nwosu and Tijani Bashir to 7...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Thursday warned the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from recognising any other person as its candidate, except Mr Ladi Adebutu...
The independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said that it is impossible for anyone to withdraw from the elections at this stage. The commission stated this...
A former Administrative Secretary of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Mr Christian Nwosu has been convicted by a federal High Court in Lagos in connection to...
Festus Keyamo (SAN), spokesperson of the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential campaign council, says President Muhammadu Buhari cannot even contemplate rigging the 2019 elections given the...
President Buhari on Tuesday in Abuja expressed confidence in the readiness of Nigeria’s electoral umpire, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), to Conduct a free, fair...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has given a breakdown of the statistics of candidates contesting different positions in the February 16 and March 2 general...
By Reuben Abati… “Former President Obasanjo is a courageous patriot and statesman who tells truth to power when he is convinced leaders are doing wrong” –...
Rotimi Amaechi, director general of the re-election campaign of President Muhammadu Buhari, Monday accused the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) of being experienced at election rigging. He...
The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Mahmood Yakubu, says the commission is not under pressure to do what is wrong. Yakubu said this...
The under performance of 33 political parties has got a Catholic group, Justice Development and Peace Initiative (JDPI) Diocese of Ekiti fuming. The director of Ekiti...
A group of opposition parties, the Coalition of United Political Parties, CUPP, has alleged plans by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to use beneficiaries of...
The Independent National Electoral commission has been accused of frustrating the efforts of would-be voters to collect their Permanent Voter Cards (PVC) with less than a...
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Yakubu Dogara, has expressed fears over the refusal of President Muhammadu Buhari to append his signature to the Electoral...
Final list of candidates participating in the 2019 presidential, senatorial, House of Reps and state assemblies elections has been released by the Independent National Electoral Commission...
The names and logo of the All Progressives Congress (APC) were conspicuously missing in the list of candidates for the National Assembly election from Rivers State...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has described as untrue claims made by the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, on unclaimed...
Shaaban Sharada, the personal assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Broadcast Media has lost his ticket as the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate for Kano Municipal...
By Jerome-Mario Utomi … As the nation pulls closer to the February 2019 general polls, like other well-meaning Nigerians, I have gained new awareness to the...
Some political parties have resolved to sue the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) over the draft guidelines for the 2019 general elections. About 61 political parties...
A coalition of political parties in Bauchi has rejected plans by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to relocate the constituency collation centre from House Representatives...
As the 2019 general elections draw near, questions have been asked of the ability of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to conduct free, fair and...