A pressure group within the Edo State chapter of Labour Party, LP, Catalyst Committee, has tasked the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, and the judiciary to uphold the rule of law and the provisions of the Electoral Act in the forthcoming governorship election.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) told Civil Society Organisations on Tuesday, May 14, that their continued participation in the electoral process will depend on their submission of reports from elections monitored by them. Speaking at a quarterly consultative meeting with CSOs involved
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has announced the resumption of the Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) in Edo and Ondo states, to enable eligible citizens who are not registered voters to do so. The announcement is coming ahead of the governorship election in
The Abuja Division of the Federal High Court on Wednesday, fixed March 20 to deliver judgment in a suit filed by a member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, Ugochukwu Uchenwa, seeking to stop the conduct of elections and examinations on Saturdays. Justice James
Kogi State Police Command has confirmed that gunmen attacked the secretary of the state governorship election Tribunal, Mr David Umar Mike on Monday in Lokoja and made away with sensitive petition documents on the just concluded gubernatorial election in the state. The state
Security agencies have dispersed supporters of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in Kogi State at the Secretariat of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), in Lokoja, to protest what they termed “INEC’s dubious tampering with election materials”. The security agencies moved in on
The Nigerian Judiciary is once again being put forward for all the wrong reasons as Protesters have defied Security agencies threats, returned to the streets of Kano over the sack of Governor Abba Yusuf by the Appeal Court. Protesters were heard chanting in Hausa, “We will not accept it”;
– Asks would be losers not to waste their money going to tribunals: BY CHIBUEZE CHUKWUMA, ENUGU Pro-democracy and leading Civil Rights Advocacy Group- HUMAN RIGHTS WRITERS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA (HURIWA) has condemned the sporadic violence, armed political thuggery and electoral heists that
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has disclosed that there are no registered voters in 38 polling units in Imo State and two in Bayelsa State. The electoral body also noted that of the 2,419,922 registered voters for the November 11 governorship election
Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, SAN, says that Thursday’s judgment of the Supreme Court in the presidential election case has all but ended any contest, but maintained that it is not ideal for the judiciary to decide winners of elections. Falana, who was
Nigeria’s heartless President,Bola Ahmed Tinubu finally released all the 114 #EndBadGovernance protesters (minors and adults)
United States based Scientist and Business Woman, Princess Angela Obasi has joined other well meaning
A former member of the House of Representatives Farouk Lawan has regained freedom after serving
Washington state authorities said on Monday that five people were killed in a shooting at