Tag: INEC
One Week, One Tragedy
By Chido Onumah It’s almost a week since the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) job recruitment tragedy that claimed the lives…
De-Registration: Okotie Tackles INEC Again
Taiwo Okanlawon Fresh Democratic Party, FDP, presidential candidate and founder of Household of God Church, Rev. Kris Okotie, has asked…
Will Nigeria Disintegrate?
By Chido Onumah Nigeria’s President, Goodluck Jonathan, today, Monday, March 17, 2014, inaugurated the 492-member National Conference whose task is…
Political Thugs And Elections
By Ignatius Adegoke The great body of critical discourse on the politics of the era seems to have little good…
Begin Campaigns, Get Sanctions, Jega Warns Politicians
Eromosele Ebhomele The Chairman of Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof. Attahiru Jega, Monday read the riot act to…
Tackling Voters’ Apathy In Nigeria
By Tayo Ogunbiyi The most universally suitable and acceptable definition of democracy is the one that refers to it as…
2015 Election: Mixed Reactions To Time Table
Nnamdi Felix/Abuja The early release of the time-table of the 2015 general elections by the Independent National Electoral Commission has…
INEC gives dates for voters’ registration in Ekiti, Osun
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has fixed March 12 to March 19 for the Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) for…
A Year To The Presidential Election
A year and four days to the presidential election, Nigerians still do not know who are the contenders or what…
Nigeria’s presidential election to hold February 2015
Nigeria is to hold its next presidential election on February 14, 2015, the Independent National Electoral Commission said Friday, with…
SSS Officials Invade El Rufai’s Abuja Residence
Armed officials of the State Security Service (SSS) invaded the Abuja’s residence of Mallam Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai Friday afternoon after…
APC Disowns Interim Chairman
The All Progressives Congress, APC, in Kwara State, northcentral Nigeria, has disowned Rev. Bunmi Olusona, who is parading himself as…
INEC plans retreat for 2015 polls, seeks US assistance
Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) plans to hold a retreat soon, to discuss how to ensure a free and…
Court Sacks Victor Umeh APGA Executive
A Nigerian Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Wednesday dissolved the executive committee of the Chief Victor Umeh-led faction…
An Open Letter To President Jonathan
By Alofe Sunday Dear Mr. President, At this time when everyone is writing you a letter, mine is not to…
Tambuwal charges INEC to get acts together
The Speaker of the Nigerian House of Representatives, Alhaji Aminu Tambuwal on Tuesday, called on the Independent National Electoral Commission…
2015 Elections And INEC Proposed N93b Budget
On Monday, Professor Attahiru Jega, Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, disclosed that Nigeria will need N92.9 billion to conduct…
INEC clarifies stance on polls in Borno, Adamawa
Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said on Tuesday that it would conduct elections in states under emergency rule, if…
Anambra election: APGA’s Obiano declared winner
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Sunday declared Chief Willie Obiano of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) winner…
Anambra election: Residents ignore movement restriction
The restriction of movement imposed by the police and INEC during the ongoing Anambra supplementary governorship election was not effective…
Most Anambra voters shun partial poll
Officials of Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission and materials arrived early today, some as early as 6.00 a.m, at the…
Soldiers, policemen bar APC protesters from INEC office
Armed soldiers and policemen deployed around the Abuja headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, this morning prevented leaders…
INEC And Anambra Supplementary Election
By Michael Jegede Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Attahiru Jega, at the end of a meeting…
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Anambra Poll: APC Set For Protest At INEC, Dares Police
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has announced it will stage a peaceful procession to INEC headquarters in Abuja on Thursday…
Anambra Group sues INEC over partial poll
Nnamdi Felix / Abuja The controversy trailing the inconclusive governorship election conducted in Anambra state on 16th November by the…
APGA ’ll Win Anambra poll even if conducted 10 times, says Obi
Governor Peter Obi of the eastern Nigerian state of Anambra said on Monday that there was no rigging in the…
Lai Mohammed: Jega’s credibility gone with Anambra poll
Abiodun Onafuye/ Abeokuta As controversy continues to dog the 16 November governorship election in the eastern Nigerian state of Anambra,…
Anambra 2013 Shame And INEC
By Joe Igbokwe On Monday November 4 2013 I wrote a piece titled Anambra 2013: What We Expect From INEC.…
2 parties back INEC’s partial poll in Anambra
The African Democratic Congress (ADC) and the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), two fringe political associations in Nigeria, have supported…
APC rejects supplementary election in Anambra
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has rejected Friday’s announcement by INEC to hold supplementary election in Anambra State on 30…