The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has released the timetable for governorship elections in Kogi and Bayelsa states. Both elections will hold this year, INEC said...
The Acting Chairman of INEC, Mrs. Amina Zakari likes the Residency Card Initiative of the Ondo State government and says the commission will introduce it to...
History is to be made today as INEC conducts supplementary elections across 11 states today (Saturday) including those to elect governors for Abia, Imo and Taraba...
There was real drama on Friday at the INEC office in Enugu, when two people showed up to lay claim to the certificate of return for...
Following the inconclusive governorship elections in Imo State, INEC has fixed April 25 for a re-run in some constituencies in the state House of Assembly elections...
Senator Aisha Jummai Alhassan of the APC still has a date to keep with history in her bid to become the first ever elected female governor...
Rivers: Wike wins Candidate of the PDP, Barr Nyesom Wike has been declared winner of last Saturday’s governorship election in Rivers state, polling a total of...
APC governorship candidate in Lagos state, Akinwunmi Ambode seems to be coasting home to victory, with over 90% of the votes already in. Results from 20...
Barely a week after he supervised the presidential and National Assembly election in the state, the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in Kano State, Mikaila Abdulahi, was...
Nigeria’s President-elect, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari must hit the ground running because the task ahead is legion. To several members of the All Progressives Congress (APC), the...
The PDP and its presidential candidate in the just concluded presidential election, Goodluck Jonathan have disagreed sharply over the outcome of the exercise, and the results...
Going by results from 31 states and FCT so far released by INEC, Muhammadu Buhari of the APC is projected to emerge victorious at the end...
Presidential candidate of the APC, Muhammadu Buhari has shot into the lead as INEC continues counting of the results from the presidential election held across the...
According to the official results for the presidential poll released so far by INEC, the APC has won more states, but the PDP has garnered more...
As is to be expected, the two main political parties have continued their accusations of each other, now accusing the other of either plans to rig,...
Though the final results are yet to be released by the electoral umpire, indications emerged that APC presidential candidate defeated President Goodluck Jonathan of the PDP...
Issues with the smart card reader, delay in arrival of INEC staff and materials including violence in some parts of the country were among things that...
INEC has directed its officials involved in the elections to resort to manual authentication in accreditation of voters for the elections. This adjustment to its guidelines...
A man identified as Ozemena Odeta who allegedly snatched about 300 Permanent Voters Cards (PVC) from INEC staff has been arrested while distributing the cards to...
INEC on Friday announced the postponement the House of Representatives election in Jigawa State. Head of Voter Education and Publicity of the commission in Dutse, Alhaji...
There was fear and pandemonium, at the WTC School 1, polling unit in Enugu state, as an explosive device inside a car parked in the premises...
The INEC card reader called to question the viability of the tool for a successful election, as the ones deployed to the polling booth where President...
Justice Ademola Adeniyi, of the Federal High Court in Abuja has rejected an application to stop INEC from using the Smart Card Reader Machines for the...
The 2015 general elections beginning today, March 28, represent a major watershed in the nation’s history. Perhaps, for the first time in our democratic journey the...
NATIONAL BROADCAST BY PRESIDENT GOODLUCK EBELE JONATHAN, GCFR ON THE 2015 GENERAL ELECTIONS, FRIDAY, MARCH 27, 2015 Dear Compatriots, 1. As we prepare to go to...
The Inspector-General of Police, Suleiman Abba, again reechoed his earlier stance, that voters were not banned from monitoring the elections, after casting their votes, but that...
President Goodluck Jonathan has again reiterated that any talk that his government is planning for an Interim National Government (ING) is treasonable, and that government will...
Any governor or top politician, who tries to get in the good books of any Resident Electoral Commissioner (RECs) will have another thing coming, as the...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), chairman, Professor Attahiru Jega has restated that next week’s elections will hold as scheduled. This is even as the electoral...
I have often argued that the entire Nigerian political machinery that bears the name “government” is little more than an arrangement to enable a few individuals...
Elections may not hold in north east areas liberated from the Boko Haram insurgents by the military as government structures still need to be restored for...
President Goodluck Jonathan; Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Attahiru Jega, and heads of the nation’s security agencies are presently in a crucial meeting...
Less than two weeks to the presidential and National Assembly elections, agitations to have Professor Attahiru Jega removed as chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has stated that the fire incident at the warehouse of its electoral institute will not affect the conduct of the...
THE Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said the level of the Permanent Voters Cards, PVCs, distributed to voters so far had reached 81.22 percent. It said...
Former military Head of State, Gen Ibrahim Babangida (retd) has denied that there are any plan for an interim government or that he has a role...
It was a bag of mixed reaction that trailed the exercise embarked upon by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to test run the Card Readers...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has extended the collection deadline for Permanent Voter Cards (PVC) across the country by additional two weeks from March 8...
The Young Democratic Party has stated that it would only wave its insistence on contesting the elections, if the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) assured that...
Critics who have continuously insisted that there is a plot to scuttle the forthcoming elections may not be far from the truth, as a Federal High...
Fifteen political parties and five presidential aspirants have expressed doubts in the ability of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to conduct credible, free and fair...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will this Saturday conduct a mock examination for voters in some parts of the country by embarking on a test...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has questioned the rational and reasons for what it said was the false alarms and uncontrolled nervousness regarding chairman of the...
Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Muhammadu Buhari has more troubles to contend with concerning the issue of his school certificate and its authenticity,...
Minister of Culture and Tourism and the Supervising Minister of Information, Chief Edem Duke, has debunked a rumour making rounds that the presidency is planning to...
The Nigerian military took delivery of two Boeing 747 jets fully loaded with ammunition that arrived the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, on Wednesday evening. The...
Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, says there is a need to investigate the audio file which purportedly captured some Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leaders giving orders...
The House of Representatives on Wednesday rejected a motion to summon the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Attahiru Jega, over the postponement of...
The Senate Tuesday summoned the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Attahiru Jega to appear before it, Wednesday, February 18, to among other...
The recent postponement of the 2015 general elections by the Independent National Electric Commission (INEC) is threatening the passage of the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) by...
