The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared that its activities are open for public assessments and criticisms. It’s Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, stated this yesterday at a public dialogue with civil society groups, organised by European Centre for Electoral Support. He said the rationale to subject electoral process to public scrutiny was to guarantee…

A coalition of politicians under the aegis of Yerwa-Oodua PDP support group has lamented that Peoples Democratic Party in Borno State does not have valid candidates for the 2019 governorship and Borno Central Senatorial election. While addressing a press conference at Sheraton Hotel in Ikeja, Lagos, the group, said they comprise “hundreds of PDP members…

During our primary school days, there was always a day set aside for the release of the results of our promotion examinations. We often awaited the arrival of that day with bated breath. That day held your future in its womb. If you scaled through the examination you would go to the next class and…

Angered that Senator Hope Uzodima’s name was, on Friday night, pasted on the Independent National Electoral Commission’s (INEC) notice board in Owerri...

The participation of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in 2019 elections has been further guaranteed, as the Independent National Electoral Commission...

The National Independent Electoral Commission (INEC) has attributed the high cost of conducting elections to prevailing insecurity in most parts of the country and called for peaceful coexistence amongst Nigerians.

Unless there are fresh developments such as judicial interventions, the All Progressives Congress (APC) will not field gubernatorial candidates in Imo and Zamfara states next year...

Lai Olurode, Professor of Sociology at the University of Lagos and former National Commissioner with the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) takes a panoramic view of the electoral process preparatory to the 2019 general election and declares, ‘the forthcoming elections present an opportunity to weaken politicians who treat popular yearnings of the grassroots with disdain.’…

Chairman, Senate Committee on Banking, Insurance and Other Financial Institutions, Senator Rafiu Ibrahim, has explained that the Senate’s decision to rescind and revise the methods of funding of the supplementary budget of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and security agencies for the conduct of the 2019 general elections, was done in good faith, after…

The INEC in Lagos State on Friday published details of 41 candidates of various political parties in the state for the 2019 elections jostling to become Governor. A check by a NAN Correspondent at INEC office in Lagos revealed that 589 candidates of different parties are also eying 40 seats in the Lagos State House…

Barely 100 days to the 2019 general election, the regulatory and legal framework for the conduct of the crucial poll is still awaiting assent by President Muhammadu Buhari, a situation that is raising apprehension among stakeholders.

Considering how there is now strong evidence that United States security was compromised during the United States’ 2016 presidential election, it is important that the United States – as well as the INEC – keep its voting rights secure in the future so that policies made are truly chosen by the people themselves.