Tag: INEC
Politicians And Their Obsession For Pettiness
By Comrade Akido Agenro Nigerian political class’ penchant for actions that heat up the political system is unbecoming of statesmen.…
Fashola Tasks INEC Again On Fair Role In APC Merger
Lagos State Governor, Mr Babatunde Fashola (SAN) on Saturday joined his colleague Governors from Ogun State and Imo State to…
APC: Change Is Coming
By Joe Igbokwe All over the world the only thing that is permanent is change. You buy a motorcycle or…
INEC debunks report on APC rejection
Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said on Monday that there is no truth in reports in some newspapers that…
ACN Denies INEC’s Objection To Use Of APC Acronym
The National Publicity Secretary of the Action Congress of Nigeria, Alhaji Lai Muhammed has denied the media report that the…
2015: Jonathan Yet To Decide —Presidency
President Goodluck Jonathan said on Tuesday morning that he has not endorsed any governorship candidate or authorised any committee to…
Fire razes INEC ballot boxes in Lagos
Ballot boxes belonging to Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission were among the items engulfed by an inferno at the Lagos…
Trampling On Journalists’ Rights
In yet another of the many missteps that have become the hallmark of the Goodluck Jonathan administration, the police, acting…
Let’s Blame Corruption, Greed And Impunity
By Odunayo Joseph There is no doubt that the ossified profligacy and the reckless urge for sharing rather than baking…
INEC Denies Spoof APC Registration
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC on Monday further stirred controversies over the use of acronym ‘APC’, with its denial…
Abuja council polls: ANPP 1, PDP 3
Mr Abubakar Jibrin of ANPP has won the March 16 chairmanship election in GwaGwalada Area Council of Nigeria’s Federal capital…
Lawyer paid $500 to derail APC of Nigeria’s progressives
A Nigerian lawyer, Nwokorie Samuel Chinedu has revealed that he was paid N80,000, about $500, in two instalments by a…
INEC Ready For FCT Council Polls
The FCT Abuja Resident Electoral Commissioner of INEC, Mr. Godwin Kwanga, said on Wednesday that the commission was ready to…
APC Registration: Why INEC Must Tread Carefully
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, stirred the hornet’s nest when it claimed that it has received a notice of…
The APC Marching On
The newly formed All Progressive Congress throttles swiftly with its merger plans The initial scepticism which trailed the announcement of…
Fight Against Corruption Beyond Govt Capacity —Buhari
Former Head of State and the leader of the Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, Maj-Gen.Muhammadu Buhari, has declared in London…
NCP Loses Bid To Stop Deregistration
National Conscience Party this morning lost in its bid to stop the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, from deregistering some…
Mixed Reactions Trail Deregistration Of Parties
Alhaji Yahaya Ndu, National Chairman, defunct African Renaissance Party (ARP), has said that the deregistration of political parties by INEC…
The Merger This Time!
On Wednesday 6 February, four opposition parties came together and agreed to form a new political party, All Progressives Congress,…
PDP Scribe: Oyinlola Knows Fate 21 March
A Federal High Court in Abuja Tuesday fixed ruling for 21 March in an application filed by the former National…
PDP wins Kano bye-elections
MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano Nigeria’s Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Sunday in Kano northwest Nigeria, won the bye-elections for Gaya and Garko state…
INEC Pays N4.6m To Bomb Blast Victims
The Independent Electoral Commission (INEC) in Abuja on Tuesday paid N4.6 million to 46 victims of April 2011 bomb blast…
INEC Undergoes Reorganisation
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is undergoing re-organisation, re-structuring and widening the scope of its electoral institute, INEC Chairman…
Nigeria: ACN pushes for electronic voting in 2015
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has said it is time for the country to embrace electronic voting in order…
INEC registry office gutted by fire
Nigeria’s National Emergency Agency, NEMA has confirmed that only one office was gutted by fire in the Abuja national headquarters…
INEC axes 3 more political parties
Eromosele Ebhomele Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Friday announced the de-registration of three more political parties after it…
Court orders fresh bye-election in Plateau state
Nnamdi Felix / Abuja A Nigerian Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Thursday set aside, the 6 October, 2012…
800,000 Nigerian graduates scramble for 1,500 jobs
.PHD holders also in the job rush About 800,000 graduates have submitted applications to the Independent National Electoral Commission seeking…
INEC Chief calls for 5 parties in Nigeria
The state commissioner for the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Rivers said on Wednesday that a five-party system would…
Deregistration Of Parties: INEC Should Take A Second Look
As expected, the deregistration of 28 political parties last Thursday by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has elicited various…