The leadership of the Independent National Electoral Commission will, this week, hold a crucial meeting with the leaders of political parties towards the coming 2019 General...
Ahmad Lawan, Majority Leader of the Senate and a member of the All Progressives Congress (APC), says President Muhammadu Buhari not signing the electoral act amendment...
The presidential election, which is scheduled to hold on February 16, 2019, may take five days to collate and announce its result, Saturday PUNCH has learnt....
Senate President Bukola Saraki has warned President Muhammadu Buhari against heeding the advice of those he branded as anti-democratic elements who are putting pressure on him...
By Daniel Ezeigwe … It is as worrisome as it is sad how the Nigeria’s pre-electoral hysterics of 2015 have been consciously or subconsciously forgotten. An...
There is unease in the parties as the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) closes window of substitution of candidates for the 2019 governorship and state Assembly...
The Senate Leader, Ahmed Lawan, has said the country may be forced to rely on the 2006 electoral act as amended in 2015 if President Muhammadu...
The Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Uche Secondus, Thursday called on the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Yakubu Mahmood, to...
By SOC Okenwa.. Last week Sunday marked the official commencement of electoral hostilities toward the 2019 general elections in Nigeria. Political parties (including the ruling APC...
By Gozie Irogboli… Nigeria is in an electoral season and once again the atmosphere is fired up with uncertainties. In contrast with what is obtainable in...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has confirmed that electioneering campaign for the 2019 Presidential and National Assembly elections will kick off on Sunday, the 18th...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Sunday published lists of Sokoto State governorship candidates for the 2019 elections. However, the name of the state governor,...
Still awaiting the decision of the court on who bears the flag of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Imo State, the Independent National Electoral Commission...
Ahead of the 2019 general elections, the All Progressives Congress (APC) has expressed faith in the ability of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to conduct...
A Nigerian man, Itsede Kingsley, has asked the Federal High Court in Lagos to disqualify President Muhammadu Buhari from the 2019 presidential election, for failing to...
A Yoruba youth group, the Yoruba Youth Socio-cultural Association has warned Asiwaju Bola Tinubu against supporting President Muhammadu Buhari’s reelection in 2019, alleging that the President...
The All Progressives Congress caucus in the Senate has started pleading with their colleagues who failed to get tickets to contest the 2019 senatorial election not...
Spokesperson to President Muhammadu Buhari, Femi Adesina has dismissed the furore over the president’s missing secondary school certificate, branding those complaining as “idle”. Since President Buhari...
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and 24 other political parties have endorsed as their consensus candidate Chief Adesunbo Onitiri for the forthcoming Lagos Central senatorial election. The...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has advised Nigerians on what to do if they have issues with credentials submitted to it by President Muhammadu Buhari...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Friday released the list of presidential candidates and the political parties they represent for the 2019 general elections. Below...
Following revelation that President Muhammadu Buhari once again did not submit his secondary school certificate to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as a presidential candidate...
The release of details of the presidential candidates for the 2019 general elections has thrown up some interesting scenarios over the documents submitted by the two...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will today publish personal particulars of presidential and National Assembly candidates submitted to it by 89 political parties participating in...
Efforts aimed at managing the negative fallout from the primaries of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) appear to have completely failed, with the national leadership...
Uche Secondus, National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has once again conveyed his party’s dissatisfaction with the current electoral process to the European Union...
A former Presidential aspirant on the platform of All Progressives Congress (APC) Chief Charles Udeogaranya, has asked the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to disqualify all...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said that there are attempts by some individuals to submit fake names of candidates to the Independent National Electoral Commission...
There was palpable tension at the national headquarters of the All Progressives Congress (APC) yesterday as aspirants for the Senate and House of Representatives elections stormed...
The national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party has sent the name of the President of the Senate, Senator Bukola Saraki, to the Independent National Electoral...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) yesterday said that it had commenced profiling of more than 800,000 registered Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) of Fulani herdsmen attacks...
The Independent National Electoral Commission and the All Progressives Congress are set for a showdown over the submission of the list of candidates for elections in...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Delta State has denied reports that a Federal High Court sitting in Asaba, has restrained the National Working Committee (NWC)...
The dust surrounding the primary elections of the All Progressives Congress (APC) is yet to settle, as a Federal High Court sitting in Asaba, has stopped...
The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, has identified rising security challenges in the country and logistics as the major reasons...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) insists that the All Progressives Congress (APC) will not field candidates for the 2019 general elections in Zamfara. INEC Chairman,...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is under pressure from some strong political players in the presidency to return the National Commissioner on Health and Welfare,...
Ex-Governor of Kaduna State, Alhaji Ahmed Mohammed Makarfi is now seeking the senatorial ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for Kaduna North having failed to...
Ahead of the 2019 general elections, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said that no political party has submitted its list of candidates to the...
The Senate Committee on Appropriation has approved President Muhammadu Buhari’s request for the virement of N242bn under the 2018 Appropriation Act to conduct the 2019 general...
The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, has reacted to the position of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) that the party...
The Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has begun earnest search for his running mate as the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) deadline...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has been warned against compromising its deadline for all congresses and related processes for the election of candidates for various...
The police have invited Senate President Bukola Saraki, Dino Melaye, the senator representing Kogi West, and Ben Murray-Bruce, the senator representing Bayelsa East, over alleged disturbance...
Some leaders and presidential aspirants of the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) on Friday stormed the headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in protest....
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has sent out a note of warning to political parties hoping to participate in the 2019 general elections. The commission...
Ahead of the 2019 general elections, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has expressed concern over the role of the Nigeria Police and other security agencies...
The forthcoming political parties’ primaries is to cost the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) N630 million, it was learnt. The sum is outside the N160.792 million...
There is anxiety in some parts of Osun State over the run-off elections following reports that journalists and election monitors are being prevented from operating in...
By Omoshola Deji…. Osun State is presently Nigeria’s political fireworks capital. The incumbent All Progressives Congress (APC) and the winning People’s Democratic Party (PDP) are in...