Tag Archives: Elections

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has won all the seats in the just concluded local government council election held in Taraba State on Saturday. The ruling party in the state, according to the Taraba State Independent Electoral Commission, TSIEC, won the 16 local government chairmanship seats and all the 168 ward councilorship positions. Announcing the results of the elections on ...

The Inspector General of Police, IGP Kayode Egbetokun has commended all police officers and operatives of other security agencies for providing adequate support to the Nigeria Police Force in ensuring security for the conduct of off-cycle elections in Bayelsa, Imo, and Kogi States. This is just as he has charged the Electoral Offences Desk Officers, under the supervision of the ...

Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Yakubu Mahmoud, has provided a fresh update on how far the commission has prepared for the off-cycle governorship elections in Bayelsa, Imo, and Kogi States. In 24 hours, 5,169,692 Nigerians who collected their Permanent Voters’ Cards (PVCs) in the affected states would be heading to their different polling units to elect ...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has again raised alarm over the rising cases of fake news and misinformation which it said was capable of having a negative impact on the management of elections in the country if not nipped in the bud. The commission described as distasteful, its experience with fake news, hate speech and misinformation during the 2023 ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has asserted that opposition parties failed to win the February 25 presidential election because of overconfidence. According to Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Buhari spoke on Thursday at his residence in the State House, where he received the Progressive Governors Forum, led by its chairman, Governor Abubakar Atiku Bagudu ...

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo yesterday described the just concluded elections in the country as a painful show of shame, saying efforts should be made by patriotic Nigerians to correct it and not to allow it repeat itself. Obasanjo also said he was too old to keep quiet and watch the country slid into dystopia and that efforts were required from ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed his sadness that some candidates lost in the just concluded general elections in Nigeria. He also hailed the conduct of the elections, describing it as credible. He made the comment while speaking at a farewell meeting with the outgoing United States Ambassador, Mary Beth Leonard, at the State House in Abuja on Tuesday. “President Muhammadu ...

President-elect Bola Tinubu has promised to hit the ground running from from Day One in office after inauguration on May 29. He said he promised to run a fair and inclusive administration would be kept to unite all Nigerians. The President-elect spoke yesterday in Abuja when he hosted members of his All Progressives Congress (APC) National Working Committee (NWC). They ...

The Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC), in Yobe State has revealed that it will not conduct elections in eleven polling units across four local government areas. The state has 2,823 polling units across the 17 local government areas. The Resident Electoral Commissioner for the state, Ibrahim Abdullahi made the revelation at a recent stakeholders’ engagement in Damaturu. He said the ...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), says all is set for the conduct of the general elections in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), . Ms Agnes Akpe, Head of Voter Education and Publicity Department INEC FCT, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the non-sensitive materials were distributed weeks ago. Akpe said that the distribution of sensitive materials began ...