Tag: Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)
Ministerial-nominees: INEC’ll conduct 4 bye-elections for NASS – Chairman
IKEJA- The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it will conduct four bye-elections into National Assembly seats recently declared vacant by lawmakers nominated for...
Niger APC chairman resigns
MINNA- The Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Niger, Alhaji Zakari Jikantoro has resigned his position as the chairman of the party.He...
Tribunal fixes Aug. 5 for Kaduna State’s Gov. Sani to defend...
KADUNA- The Kaduna State Governorship Election Tribunal has fixed Saturday, Aug. 5, for Gov. Uba Sani, INEC and the All Progressive Congress (APC) to...
All materials used for 2023 general elections were printed in Nigeria,...
ABUJA- Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says all sensitive and non-sensitive materials used for the 2023 general...
Kano Governorship: INEC closes case without calling any witness
KANO- The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Thursday, closed its case against the All Progressive Congress (APC) without calling any witness at the...
Enugu guber: INEC fails to bring BVAS, asks tribunal to rely...
ENUGU- The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has asked the Enugu Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal to rely on the certified true copies of BVAS...
Kano State governorship tussle: INEC presents 21 BVAS machines to...
KANO- The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Tuesday tendered to the Kano State Governorship Election Tribunal 21 Bimodal Voters Accreditation System (BVAS) machines.The machines...
Tribunal: INEC tenders Gov Mbah’s certificates as Edeoga’s name missing in...
ENUGU- An Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) staff member, Mr Emmanuel Damis, on Tuesday appeared before the Governorship Election Petition Tribunal as subpoenaed witness...
Kaduna Governorship tribunal: PDP to cross examine INEC witness
KADUNA- The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Tuesday prayed the Kaduna governorship elections tribunal to allow them cross examine the witness who presented the...
Court stops prosecution of suspended Adamawa REC
ABUJA- A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday, stopped the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from prosecuting the suspended Adamawa Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC),...
Non-service of court papers to INEC stalls suit seeking Sylva’s disqualification
ABUJA- The inability of a plaintiff’s counsel, Prof. Abiodun Amuda-Kannike, SAN, to serve the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) with processes stalled hearing in...
Elections: CSOs urge Tinubu to set up independent electoral panel
ABUJA- The Nigeria Civil Society Situation Room, has called for the establishment of an independent national electoral reform panel to make elections more credible...
Restoring the spirit of June 12, By Dakuku Peterside
Democracy is taken for granted as the best form of government. At least the West told us so. We have also accepted it by...
Group wants INEC conduct voter registration ahead of Imo guber
AWKA- The Catch Them Young Community Initiative (CATYCOI) has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to conduct the Continuous Voter Registration (CVR)...
‘Go to court’, By Mike Ozekhome
INTRODUCTIONThe journalist and prose writer in me screams to manifest today. Far away from gladiatorial courtroom litigation and suffocating trenches. They urge me to...
Adamawa election: Tight security as INEC officials reconvene at Collation Centre
YOLA - There is tight security at the state collation centre in Yola, the Adamawa State capital as officials of the Independent National Electoral...
A legal opinion on INEC’s intervention in Adamawa REC’s usurpative return...
There was a Punch Newspapers’ breaking news earlier on 17 April 2023, reporting that “APC Binani declared winner of Adamawa Governorship Election”. According to...
Land-grabbing democracy, By Lasisi Olagunju
Land grabbers would seize your land at gunpoint and ask you to go to court. What would make one of INEC’s Resident Electoral Commissioners...
INEC ready for Saturday’s rerun election in Zamfara – REC
GUSAU- The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), says it has distributed materials for Saturday’s rerun election in six local government areas of Zamfara.The Residents...
INEC chairman didn’t promise to transmit 2023 election results electronically— Lai...
The Nigerian government has said the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmood Yakubu, never promised to transmit election results electronically.This...