The National Assembly has called off its recess and fixed a date for resumption of plenary. It is to reconvene on Tuesday, August 14. This was...
The Inspector General of Police (IGP) Ibrahim Idris, has been ordered by a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja to produce the Chairman of the Independent...
With less than 200 days to the February 2019 general elections, stakeholders have expressed worries over the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)’s deadline of August 17...
The immediate past Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Timi Frank has said that attempts to forcefully reconvene the upper chamber of the National Assembly...
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has ordered the arrested of chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Professor Mahmood Yakubu, for failing to...
A Federal High Court In Abuja on Monday ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the All Progressives Congress (APC), and its national chairman not to...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will on Monday make public the names of candidates of the political parties vying for the Osun governor’s seat. Forty-eight...
By SOC Okenwa… The Ekiti gubernatorial election had come with a bang and gone with a whimper. Penultimate weekend (Saturday July 15th) the electorate in Ekiti...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in the July 14 governorship election in Ekiti State, Professor Kolapo Olusola, has cried out over alleged efforts by the...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Wednesday condemned the presidency’s request for N242 billion to conduct the 2019 elections from the 2018 budget, saying it posed a...
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has vowed to drag the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and its chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, to court if...
By the end of his tenure in 2023, Kayode Fayemi would have completed his cycle in the governance of Ekiti state just like his predecessor-successor-predecessor, Ayo...
About six months to the conduct of the 2019 general elections, the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Akwa Ibom State,...
By Jerome-Mario Utomi… Demystifying the time-honored saying that; ‘the powerful never lose opportunities-they remain available to them, that the powerless on the other hand, never experience...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has stated that it would soon suspend the ongoing Continuous Voter Registration (CVR). According to the commission, the CVR exercise...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it has registered at least 10 million Nigerians in the ongoing nationwide Continuous Voter Registration (CVR), bringing the total...
Just months away to the 2019 general elections, 136 groups have applied to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) seeking to be registered as political parties....
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu has described as untrue and baseless Ekiti State governor Ayodele Fayose’s rigging allegation against the commission....
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has reacted to reports of attempts by some mischievous elements to clone Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) and sell them online....
A pro-democracy group, Citizens Centre for Democratic Governance (CCDG) has called on politicians, and political parties vying for the Ekiti governorship election, to concentrate more on...
Apparently not done with its move to ensure that elections are re-ordered, the National Assembly has approached the Appeal Court sitting in Abuja to challenge the...
A report released in March 2018 by the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC), which showed that Lagos state had about 1,401,390 million PVC’s still in its...
Officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) deployed to the Alimosho Local Government area in Lagos State have been caught on video collecting bribe from...
The Southern and Middle Belt Leaders’ Forum on Sunday cried out for the suspension of the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Mahmood Yakubu....
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is yet to receive the resolution of the National Assembly asking it to release the result of the June 12,...
A Civil Society Organisation, Citizens Center for Democratic Governance (CCDG) has called for caution in using the recent electronic voting (e-voting) in Kaduna state, as a...
Although the National Working Committee (NWC) of All Progressive Congress (APC) had rescheduled the party’s congress in Delta state, a faction of the party supported by...
The chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC ), Professor Mahmood Yakubu, on Friday revealed what the futile exercise to recall Senator Dino Melaye cost...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is bracing for next year’s general elections – without cash. The polls are 291 days away, but there is no...
By Joseph Edgar… Democracy is all about the people, popular will and there is really nothing the powers that be can do about it. The People...
Based on the information gathered directly from all polling units in Kogi West, there were indications yesterday that the recall exercise of Senator Dino Melaye is...
Efforts to recall embattled Sen Dino Melaye has hit a brick wall, as INEC formally declared that the conditions have not been met. The electoral body...
There was low turn-out of registered voters who turned out for the verification process for recall of Senator Dino Melaye. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is to begin the verification of signatures for the recall of Senator Dino Melaye, who is currently under arrest at...
Timetable for Osun State governorship election holding on September 22, 2018 has been released by the Independent National Electoral Commission. It was presented to newsmen on...
While Senator Dino Melaye is being treated in a hospital following injuries he sustained in a bid to escape the custody of the security operatives, the...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has again alerted of alleged plots by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to rig the coming 2019 general elections in...
Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Sunday explained that it only got 3,789 requests nationwide for the creation of new poling units. The electoral commission stated this while...
Ahead of the 2019 general elections, a group, Citizens Centre for Democratic Governance (CCDG) has called on Nigerians to work towards identifying individuals in the voters...
As the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) prepares for the 2019 general election, indications have emerged that the ghost of the creation of 30,000 new polling...
By Jerome-Mario Utomi… The nation’s political terrain is tensed up with intrigues as the gale of declaration for different political interest/positions daily resonates on our political...
The Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Kayode Fayemi , has boasted that the All Progressives Congress(APC) will use federal might to dislodge the Peoples Democratic...
President Muhammadu Buhari, on Tuesday, sought the approval of the Senate for the confirmation of 26 new nominees. The nominees include 23 federal commissioners for the...
The Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sokoto, Matthew Kukah, has made a shocking prediction about the 2019 elections in Nigeria. The cleric revealed that...
The eight-man committee set up by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to investigate cases of alleged underage voting in Kano local government election has submitted...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has released timetable for the recall of Dino Melaye, the senator representing Kogi West. Augusta Ogakwu, secretary of the commission,...
By Achilleus-Chud Uchegbu The expression of leadership in the current dispensation, from local government levels up to the federal government level, simply say one thing –that...
There was mild drama in an Abuja Division of the Federal High Court on Tuesday, with proceedings ending without the substantive matter being heard or the...
Senator Dino Melaye, representing Kogi West, has announced his decision to head to the Supreme Court to challenge the judgement of the Appeal Court upholding the...
The Independent National Electoral Commission says it has uncovered an illegal voter registration centre. INEC Administrative Secretary in Kwara State, Paul Atser, made this known in...