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By Farooq A. Kperogi Everyone who is familiar with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s unabashed Yorubacentricism expected him to appoint a Yoruba person to succeed Professor Mahmood Yakubu as INEC chairman.…
The National Council of State has approved the nomination of Professor Joash Ojo Amupitan (SAN) from the North-Central as the new Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). President…
Isaac Samuel Professor Mahmood Yakubu has formally concluded his tenure as Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), marking the end of his second and final five-year term, which…
Council of State meets Thursday Isaac Samuel President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is expected to meet with members of the Council of State on Thursday as part of consultations ahead of…
Isaac Samuel The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has called on President Bola Tinubu to make public full details of the process for appointing a new chairman of the…
Isaac Samuel Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, yesterday chaired the Commission’s regular weekly management meeting and approved the promotion of some junior staff. This…
By Farooq A. Kperogi An older friend of mine, a denizen of the circles of power, told me a few days ago that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu was considering a…
Isaac Samuel The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), on Thursday, said 14 associations seeking to register as political parties have been cleared to proceed to the next stage of the…
Isaac Samuel The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has admitted that it currently lacks the legal powers to sanction politicians and political parties engaging in premature campaigns ahead of the…
Isaac Samuel The Independent National Electoral Commission has disclosed that 2,532,062 Nigerians have pre-registered online in the first two weeks of the ongoing Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) exercise. According to…
Isaac Samuel The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has knocked the African Democratic Congress (ADC) over claims that the number of pre-registrants recorded in Osun State during the first week…
Isaac Samuel Ahead of the 2027 general elections, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has proposed that Nigerians should directly elect the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Resident…
Isaac Samuel The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said 505,906 citizens have pre-registered online for the Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) exercise within just five days. INEC chairman, Prof. Mahmood…
Isaac Samuel The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said that Certificates of Return will be presented to winners of the just-concluded bye-elections across the country on Thursday, August 21,…
By Reuben Abati The by-elections held across the country last Saturday in 16 constituencies across 12 states, in terms of the organization, the process and outcomes would seem to…
Isaac Samuel The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Thursday said it has completed arrangements for the conduct of bye-elections in 16 constituencies across 12 states of the federation scheduled…
Isaac Samuel Ahead of the 2027 general election, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has thrown its weight behind extending voting rights to eligible inmates in Nigeria’s correctional facilities. Chairman…
Isaac Samuel A coalition of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs), Labour Party candidates, and supporters under the leadership of Barr. Julius Abure on Wednesday staged a peaceful protest at the National…
Isaac Samuel Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, has cautioned State Independent Electoral Commissions (SIECs) against breaching electoral laws through the issuance of short notices…
Isaac Samuel The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced a three-day extension of the Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) in Anambra State following the registration of 96,085 new voters in…
Comfort Isaac The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has announced plans to open its portal for the process of Continuous Voter Registration, CVR, in Akwa Ibom State ahead of the…
Isaac Samuel Ahead of the upcoming bye-elections and Anambra governorship poll, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said it would issue a supplementary regulation to clarify the review process…
Isaac Samuel The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has slated Saturday, August 16, 2025 for the pending bye-elections for to fill vacant seats in the National and State Assemblies across…
– Obidient, ADA listed among applicants Isaac Samuel The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has confirmed receipt of 110 letters of intent from various associations seeking registration as political parties.…
Isaac Samuel The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), on Tuesday, said it would engage its broader stakeholders before taking a final position on the controversy surrounding its National Secretary, following a…
Isaac Samuel The House of Representatives Committee on Customs and Excise has issued a seven-day ultimatum to the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) to stop the collection of the one per…
Isaac Samuel The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will, on Tuesday, meet with the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), amid controversy arising from the Commission’s recent rejection of…
Isaac Samuel The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has received a formal application for the registration of a new political party, the All Democratic Alliance (ADA) sponsored by a coalition…
Isaac Samuel The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has rejected a notification from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) regarding its planned 100th National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting scheduled for June…
Isaac Samuel THE Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has released the final list of candidates for the upcoming Anambra State Governorship election, scheduled to hold on Saturday, November 8, 2025.…
Isaac Samuel The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is coming under scrutiny over its failure to act on more than 100 applications from associations seeking registration as political parties more…
By Anietie Ekong Lately, there has been an upsurge of politically motivated and unwarranted attacks on the President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio using several guises camouflaged as serving public…
Isaac Samuel The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Mahmood Yakubu, has dismissed rumours that he had been removed from office, saying he is still in charge of the…
The Presidency has described as “fake news” speculation on Monday morning regarding the purported removal of the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Mahmood Yakubu. Earlier reports emanating…
INEC has announced that the planned recall of Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan by her constituents has failed because they coul not muster the required number of votes. Here is INEC’s full…
By Abubakar Y Ojima-Ojo Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, senator representing Kogi central, has accused the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of bias in her recall from the senate. Akpoti-Uduaghan spoke on Tuesday…
