A Civil Society Organisation, Yiaga Africa, says the Ondo State governorship election was marred with vote buying and inadequate compliance with Covid-19 protocol.

As the build-up to the Saturday October 10, 2020 governorship election in Ondo State boils over, the attention of the world is now drawn to the state, especially in terms of the need for violence-free and peaceful election across the 18 councils of the state. There have been a series of threats and drumbeats of…

Ahead of the September 19 governorship election in Edo state, Youth Initiative for Advocacy, Growth and Advancement (YIAGA Africa), through the Watching The Vote citizens movement...

Ahead of Saturday’s governorship elections in Edo State, Yiaga Africa, yesterday, disclosed that it had deployed 44 master trainers across the 18 council areas of the state to train over 500 polling unit, 24 roving and 18 collation centre observers. Its Executive Director, Samson Itodo, stated this in a statement in Abuja, adding that the…

The Executive Director of YIAGA Africa, Samson Itodo, has expressed fear the country may spend double of what it spent in conducting the 2019 general elections, if it fails to embrace...

Last week, before President Muhammadu Buhari left the shores of the country to participate in the inaugural UK-Africa Investment Summit in London, he reaffirmed his earlier pledge to bequeath credible elections in 2023.

YIAGA-Africa, a Civil Society Organisation (CSO) that observed the 2019 presidential election has said that the result as announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission...

Despite constituting more than 60 per cent of the country’s over 200 million population, Nigerian youths have constantly been left...

Co-convener of the Not Too Young To Run movement, Samson Itodo told ENO-ABASI SUNDAY euphoria that greeted the emergence of five under-40 lawmakers...

United States Ambassador to Nigeria, Stuart Symington has urged elected lawmakers at the state and national levels to be instruments of change by promoting...

Speaker, House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has decried the influence of godfathers in Nigeria’s politics. Speaking in Abuja yesterday at a conference organised by the #NotTooYoungToRun Movement and YIAGA Africa for young lawmakers at both the national and state levels, he said it behoves up-and-coming politicians to free themselves from the negative influence of godfathers…

The Not-Too-Young-To-Run Movement' is to host no fewer than 300 young elected legislators in the National and State Houses of Assembly on May 7 and May 8, 2019 in Abuja. With the theme: Leadership, Power and Politics, the meeting is designed to inspire, empower and expose newly elected lawmakers in the 2019 general elections to…