There is a shrinking feeling about it all. With each off -season election that is conducted and results announced, we feel smaller and more unfree as a polity. Our elections bring about more insecurity; unpopular electoral outcomes require goons and thugs to protect illicit incumbents. And of course a...
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The Federal High Court in Abuja has dismissed a suit filed by Mr Ugochukwu Uchenwa, a member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, seeking to stop the conduct of elections and examinations on Saturdays. Delivering judgment in the suit on Wednesday, Justice James Omotosho held that the suit was...
Africa in 2024 will be the second fastest-growing economic region in the world (after Asia) at 4%, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), but behind the headline figure is a less auspicious reality. Fresh conflicts, more military coups, the renewed Israel-Gaza conflict, and the lingering Russia-Ukraine war are...
For Nigerians, 2023 would become one of the most remarkable years in recent memory in terms of defining moments and major events; some cheery while some are not very pleasant. This is just as there were major global events that highlighted 2023. We look at some of them:...
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is set to hold its presidential, legislative, and provincial elections countrywide on 20 December. These elections are taking place amid an environment of heightened uncertainty marked by logistical challenges and an ongoing conflict in the country’s eastern regions. Incumbent President Felix Tshisekedi is...
Mexico is on course to see its first female president as both the ruling coalition and the opposition have nominated women as candidates for the 2024 election. The country’s ruling party named former mayor of Mexico City, Claudia Sheinbaum as its candidate for the June 2 election, the...
The Vice-Chancellor of University of Lagos, Prof. Folasade Ogunsola, has advised the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to continue improving on the technology adopted for the conduct of elections. Ogunsola, who served as a State Collation Officer for Osun, gave the advice on Friday in Abuja in while speaking...
Former Vice President Atiku says for Nigeria democracy to be fully fledged, it must constantly evolve away from the current practice where the governing elite determines the outcome of elections. Abubakar, who was the Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 general election, said this...
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) says it received over 450 human rights related cases from the two elections held on Feb. 25 and March 18. The Human Rights Adviser to the Executive Secretary of the Commission, Mr Hilary Ogbonna, made this known on Monday, at a media briefing...
Sen. Opeyemi Bamidele (APC-Ekiti) has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to improve in future elections in the country. Bamidele, who represents Ekiti Central at the National Assembly, said this when he spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Abuja. The lawmaker, also the...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – The Sokoto State Commissioner of Police, Muhammed Gumel has warned criminal minded people in Sokoto against unruly behaviours, noting that the Command will not hesitate to deal with anybody or group of persons hiding under the guise of celebrating electoral victory to commit crime....
By OLA MUDOPE, Lagos – The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Lagos State has fixed Thursday for issuance of Certificates of Return to winners in the March 18 Governorship and House of Assembly elections in the state. Mr Olusegun Agbaje, INEC’s Resident Electoral Commissioner in Lagos State, disclosed...
Alhaji lbrahim Ajia, the PDP candidate for the llorin-West/Asa federal constituency in the Feb. 25 general elections in Kwara, has withdrawn his legal process against the APC and the INEC in the spirit of Ramadan. Ajia made the declaration in a statement made available to the News Agency of...
The Kogi House of Assembly on Thursday suspended nine lawmakers over alleged acts of terrorism and electoral violence during Saturday’s House of Assembly election in the state. The suspended lawmakers are Muktar Bajeh (Majority leader -Okehi), Daniya Ranyi (Bassa), Suleiman Attajachi (Idah), Bello Hassan (Ajaokuta) and Edoko Moses-Ododo (Ibaji)....
The Gombe chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has inaugurated a 5-man committee to investigate alleged anti-party activities against Sen. Danjuma Goje during the 2023 general election. Mr Tanimu Abdullahi, the chairman, APC Kashere Ward stated this on Wednesday in Kashere in Akko Local Government Area of the...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) would dominate the next Cross River House of Assembly having won 19 out of the available 25 seats in the just concluded election. According to the results released on Wednesday in Calabar by the INEC Head of Voter Education and Publicity, Mrs Tonia Nwobi,...
Gov. Hope Uzodimma has expressed gratitude to Imo people for massively supporting candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the Saturday House of Assembly elections conducted in the state. In a statement personally signed by him, Uzodinma, noted that the massive support for his party will spur him...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said the All Progressives Congress (APC) won 38 out of the 40 seats in the Lagos State House of Assembly at the Saturday’s state assembly elections in the state. Mrs Adenike Tadese, INEC’s Head of Department Voter Education and Publicity, said this in...
By BARBARA KALU, Awka – Anambra State Governor, Chukwuma Soludo has debunked rumours making round that his he spent a whooping N3.5 billion to execute the March 18 House of Assembly election in the State. Governor Soludo debunked the reports in a statement issued by his Chief Press Secretary,...
By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – The Speaker, Bauchi State House of Assembly, Abubakar Suleiman, has been reelected under the platform of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) for another term to represent Ningi State Constituency. Suleiman, who is also the Chairman, Conference of Speakers of State Legislatures of Nigeria, was...