Lagos State House of Assembly has summoned the Lagos State Independent Electoral Commission (LASIEC) to clarify guidelines for the upcoming Local Government elections on July 12. The resolution follows a motion moved by Rotimi Ajomale, Chairman of the House Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights, Public Petitions, and LASIEC, during...
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By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, has called on African youths to take the centre stage in promoting peaceful and credible elections across the continent. He also urged them to actively engage in the electoral process with a...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – Professor Mahmood Yakubu, the Chairman of Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has faced criticism for his handling of elections in Nigeria. However, his influence within ECONEC and international community has been significant, particularly in promoting cooperation and best practices among West African electoral...
On June 11, 2018, former President Muhammadu Buhari designated June 12 as Nigeria’s Democracy Day in honour of Chief MKO Abiola, the presumed winner of the 1993 presidential election. Reveling in the declaration, Prof. Humphrey Nwosu, the erstwhile Chairman of the defunct National Electoral Commission (NEC), commended Buhari for the...
Chief George Moghalu has emerged as the Labour Party (LP) candidate for the upcoming Anambra governorship election scheduled for Nov 8, following the party’s primary election held on Saturday in Awka. Moghalu, a former Managing Director of the National Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA), secured 573 votes to defeat his...
Anambra State Governor, Chukwuma Soludo on Saturday won the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) governorship primary in Anambra. Governor Soludo was declared winner at the primary held at Dr Alex Ekwueme Square, Awka, amidst tight security and under the watch of the officials of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)....
An All Progressive Congress (APC) top gubernatorial aspirant in Anambra, Mr Paul Chukwuma has resigned from the party ahead of its primary election slated for April 5, 2025. Chukwuma disclosed this in a resignation letter addressed to the APC Ward Chairman, ward two, Umueri, Anambra East Local Government Area...
Mixed reactions have continued to trail the tribunal’s judgment affirming the election of Gov. Monday Okpebholo as the winner of the Sept. 19 governorship election in Edo. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Edo election tribunal, sitting in Abuja on Wednesday, reaffirmed Okpebholo’s victory. It dismissed...
A former Kaduna lawmaker, Sen. Shehu Sani, has said he lost his senate re-election bid in 2019 because he opposed the former Governor Nasir El-Rufai’s move to obtain a 340 million dollars foreign loan. Sani, who represented Kaduna Central Senatorial District in the Eighth Senate, stated this in an...
The Women Wing of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Anambra Chapter, has endorsed Gov. Chukwuma Soludo for re-election in the Nov. 8 gubernatorial election in the state. The endorsement was announced on Thursday in Awka at the 2025 Anambra State Women Summit held at APGA South-East Regional Office....
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has refuted allegations by Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, accusing it of selective conduct of elections to fill vacancies arising from the defection of serving members of the National and State Assembly from one political party to another....
Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, has cast his vote in the ongoing local government elections in the state. Adeleke voted at Unit 9, Sagba Abogunde Ward 2, Ede North Local Government Area at about 7:56a.m. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the governor arrived at the polling...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and All Progressives Congress (APC) have disagreed over the admissibility of an Apppeal Court judgment in the ongoing petition before the Ondo State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal. The contention followed the APC and its candidate, Gov. Lucky Aiyedatiwa’s, attempt to tender in evidence the...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has renewed its call for creation of the electoral offences tribunal to ensure speedy prosecution of electoral offenders in the country. INEC Chairman, Prof Mahmood Yakubu, made the call on Friday in Abuja during the commission’s regular quarterly consultative meeting with media executives....
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), on Friday, called more witnesses at the election tribunal to challenge the victory of All Progressives Congress (APC) and its candidate, Monday Okpebholo, in the Sept. 21, 2024 governorship election in Edo. Five witnesses testified before the Justice Wilfred Kpochi-led three-member panel of the...
By CHRISTIANA LOT, Jos– Plateau State Governor, Caleb Mutfwang, has called on political leaders to regard party affiliations as tools to achieve shared objectives. He stressed the importance of inclusive governance, asserting that his administration will not adopt a winner-takes-all mentality but rather pursue a framework that reflects the...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Bola Tinubu has congratulated President-elect John Dramani Mahama on his victory in the Saturday general election in Ghana, following his opponent’s concession speech. In a telephone call to Mahama, Tinubu hoped that his ascension to power for the second time would further bring...
Namibia’s first woman president, Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, on Thursday said her victory in a disputed vote last week had broken a “glass ceiling”. The vice-president secured just past 57 percent of the vote, well ahead of the candidate for the main opposition Independent Patriots for Change (IPC) on 25.5 percent,...
The Nigerian Chapter of the International Press Institute (IPI Nigeria) will hold its annual general congress on 11 and 12 December in Abuja, Nigeria’s federal capital, the organisation has announced. Ahmed Shekarau, the group’s secretary, released a statement on Sunday stating that the annual congress would be a three-part...
As different states across the country embark on Local Government Council and off season elections, the Commissioner of Police (CP), Bayelsa Command, Mr Francis Alonyenu, has cautioned politicians and their supporters that election is not war. Alonyenu, gave the caution during an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria...