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Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced a further extension of the deadline for the collection of Permanent Voter Cards PVCs by one week. The commission had earlier extended the deadline for the collection of PVCs to Sunday January 29, however, the new deadline is February 5. In a statement released today, the National […]
Continue ReadingIn a released statement, Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has extended the deadline for the collection of Permanent Voter Cards until Sunday, January 29, 2023. INEC had earlier on fixed the collection deadline as Sunday, January 22, 2023. National INEC Commissioner, Mr. Festus Okoye said in a statement that the Commission is determined to […]
Continue ReadingHead of Department, Voter Education and Publicity of Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Achumie Rex, has accused politicians of trying to hack into the commission’s server and also trying to manufacture the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) machine ahead of the 2023 election. Speaking on Wednesday, December 14, at a two-day workshop for civil society organisations […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has identified 23 personnel who carried out fake voter registrations. INEC Chairman, Mahmood Yakubu who spoke at the third quarterly meeting with political parties on Wednesday October 26, said after a rigorous clean-up of the data using the automated biometric identification system (ABIS), 2,780,756 (22.6%) of the registrants were identified as […]
Continue ReadingIn a suit suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/1662/2022, twenty four Nigerians have dragged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) before an Abuja Federal High Court for “failing to give them and other seven million Nigerians adequate time and opportunity to complete their voter registration after they have carried out their registration online.” In the suit filed on […]
Continue ReadingMr. Ademola Adeleke Jackson Nurudeen, popularly referred to as Dancing Senator, has received his certificate of return from the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). The governor-elect of Osun state received the certificate from Osun INEC head office in Osogbo on Wednesday, July 20. The certificate presentation to Adeleke by the INEC National Commissioner, Supervising Osun, […]
Continue ReadingYou can see the reaction at the Adeleke’s house in Osun State at the moment that Senator Ademola Adeleke Jackson Nurudeen was declared by UNILAG VC, Prof Ogundipe, as the winner of the Osun State governorship election which took place on Saturday. Watch the video below:
Continue ReadingIt was heart-melting to see elderly people and physically challenged people in Anambra State coming out last Saturday to vote. Before the November 6, 2021 gubernatorial election in Anambra State, the fear many people had was that insecurity and fear could work against the conduct of the election. It was feared that many people would […]
Continue ReadingOn Saturday 6th November 2021, Anambra State will make history as the first Governorship election in Nigeria in which the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will deploy the use of Biometric Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) device. The BVAS, deployed in its pilot phase for the Isoko South 1 State Constituency Bye-election in Delta State on […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has pledged to put an end to election rigging in Nigeria using new technology. According to the Head of ICT, INEC office, Awka, Chukwuemeka Nnaji, INEC has devised what it called Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) as a way of reducing human interference in the electoral process. Speaking during […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has insisted it has the capacity to transmit election results electronically from remote areas across Nigeria. Speaking on Channels Television breakfast show on Saturday, Mr Festus Okoye, National Commissioner and INEC’s Information and Voter Education Committee Chairman, said the Commission’s position was clear. Okoye said: “We have uploaded results […]
Continue ReadingNigerian Senate has rejected Lauretta Onochie as a national commissioner for the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). The Senate, however, confirmed five other nominees, including Muhammad Sani Kallah (Katsina), Kunle Ajayi (Ekiti), Saidu Ahmad (Jigawa), Baba Bila (North-East) and Prof. Abdullahi Zuru (North-West). Their confirmation followed the adoption of the report of Senate committee on […]
Continue ReadingNigerian Senate on Thursday started the screening of nominees for appointment as National Commissioners for the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). The nominees, including Lauretta Onochie, one of the aides of the President, Muhammadu Buhari, appeared in the Senate for the exercise. Onochie arrived at the Senate wing of the National Assembly accompanied by the […]
Continue ReadingDestruction of government buildings in Nigeria continues as two offices of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Ebonyi State have been set ablaze by unidentified persons. The offices are located in Ebonyi and Ezza North Local Government Areas of the state. Although no casualties were recorded but there were extensive damages to the building […]
Continue ReadingFrom now on at the presidential election petition tribunal, foremost constitutional lawyer, Prof. Ben Nwabueze SAN, will be leading the legal team of Atiku Abubakar and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in their petition against the election of President Muhammadu Buhari. Nwabueze, who came in on wheelchair at the commencement of hearing on Thursday, announced […]
Continue ReadingThe main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has accused the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of allegedly sponsoring an “amorphous group” to support the denial by the Commission of the existence of a server. In a statement released on Tuesday by the spokesman for the PDP, Kola Ologbondiyan, the party said its investigation revealed that […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission on Monday said that results of the 2019 general elections were not transmitted electronically to its server, stressing that the Commission only experimented the technology during some staggered elections held in 2018. The Commission said that the clarification was necessary because of rising controversies on the transmission of 2019 Presidential […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has finally issued former Imo state governor, Rochas Okorocha, a certificate of return for winning the February 23rd Senatorial election in Imo West. Okorocha was declared winner of the February 23 election but the returning officer, Innocent Ibeabuchi, said he was forced to make the declaration. The Certificate of […]
Continue ReadingOne of the indelible memories of the period of Nigeria’s return to democracy firmly etched in my mind was the 1999 Peoples Democratic Party primary election in Jos, Plateau State. I still recall, distinctly, how the votes were counted and broadcast on live TV. Everyone who stayed awake through the night endured the voice of […]
Continue ReadingFormer Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Comrade Timi Frank, has demanded the immidiate declaration of Atiku Abubakar, as the president-elect, saying the election results across the country have shown that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate has won. Frank warned INEC not to succumb to pressures coming from President Muhammadu […]
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