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Just In: Gunshots rock Ondo Polling Unit as voting commences

There was sporadic shooting earlier this morning at polling unit 11 at Edo lodge, Oke Ijebu, Akure, the Ondo State Capital. However, calm...

Ondo guber primary: INEC dishonours APC’s letter unsigned by National Chairman

The leadership crisis bedevilling the ruling All Progressives Congress reared its ugly head on Wednesday as the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) turned a...

Edo Court clears hurdles for Obaseki to contest PDP primary

A reprieve came the way of Gov. Godwin Obaseki on Tuesday as an Edo State High Court gave him the green light to...

INEC mulls electronic voting as from 2021

  With effect from 2021, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it will introduce electronic voting in major elections. “We will pilot the...

Just in: APC fixes June 22, July 20 for Edo, Ondo guber primaries

  Announces N22.5m for nomination and expression of interest form   Ahead of the governorship polls in Ondo and Edo States, the ruling...

INEC Fixes September, October Dates for Edo, Ondo Gov. Polls

  September 19 and October 10, 2020, has been announced as Governorship Election for Edo and Ondo States just as the Independent National Electoral...

2023 elections: INEC approves only 18 political parties, de-registers 74

  Ahead of the 2023 general elections, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has approved only 18 political parties from the 92 parties...

In spite of killings, Kogi Senatorial Supplementary Elections hold Nov. 30 — INEC

    Barring any last minute logistic hitch, the Kogi State supplementary elections for West Senatorial District and Ajaokuta Federal Constituency respectively will...

Iwu’s rearraignment: Judge’s absence stalls trial

  The absence of the judge has stalled the trial of former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Maurice Iwu....

Bello meets Buhari says he won by a landslide

    Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello has said he will meet those who want to challenge his victory at the November...

Election Duty: Deceased corps member’s family gets INEC’s N1.9m cheque

  A youth corps member, Miss Kemisola Adeniran, who died during an election-related assignment in Oyo State, has been posthumously rewarded by the...

Kogi Gov. Election: 149,576 votes cancelled, says INEC

About 149,576 votes were cancelled in the just concluded November 16 Kogi Governorship Election, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has disclosed. According...

Kogi elections: We are alarmed by the fatalities, violence, say EU, U.S., UK others

    With the violence that trailed the Kogi elections, the European Union, the United States, the United Kingdom, and other countries under...

Kogi polls: INEC postpones results collation of two outstanding LGs till Monday

  With just two more local government areas to go, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Sunday evening announced the postponement of...

SERAP seeks ICC probe of APC, PDP officials over violence in Bayelsa/Kogi elections

  Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has asked the International Criminal Court (ICC) “to investigate whether the persistent crimes of corruption, violence,...

Kogi polls: “Missing” 30 INEC ad hoc officials found, safe and sound

The 30 missing Ad-hoc staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), engaged in the 2019 Kogi Governorship election, have been found. Earlier,...