The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Yakubu Dogara, has said that the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmood Yakubu, is...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has put a hold on its planned announcement of governorship election results from Tafawa Balewa local government area in Bauchi...
By Jerome-Mario Utomi… Like every crisis that has its dangers and opportunities, this piece stems from a recent discussion I had with a very unique Nigerian–a...
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has accused the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of working with the All Progressives Congress (APC) to frustrate its Presidential candidate,...
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has promised to work hand in hand with the National Assembly in order to review and strengthen the nation’s electoral...
Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Mahmood Yakubu, has urged the 9th National Assembly to commence and conclude in earnest the amendment to...
Nigerians have been fair and patient with Muhammadu Buhari. However, there is a limit to reasonable fairness, in the midst of continuous provocation. In my extensive...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has retracted its earlier claim at the weekend that military personnel took over its premises and hijacked the collation of...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has condemned the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmoud Yakubu, over declaration of elections as inconclusive, in...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has warned that it will not issue certificates of return to any candidate declared winner of an election under duress....
The Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP) has rejected the results of Saturday’s presidential election currently being collated by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), describing...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has suspended the collation of the Presidential Election results till 11am on Monday. Chairman of the Commission, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu,...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said it will begin the announcement of results of Saturday’s Presidential and National Assembly elections Sunday evening, saying that...
YPP rejects results of presidential election, accuses APC, PDP of electoral malpractice While President Muhammadu Buhari has received Certificate of Return from the Independent National Electoral...
By Fredrick Nwabufo… Will an election conducted under the cumulus of suspicion, doubt and allegations against the umpire of the exercise be accepted by most Nigerians?...
By John Chukwu… There is a special sweetness that early morning sleep carries. I was drenched in that sweetness – last Saturday morning. I was stylishly...
Reactions from political parties on the Independent National Electoral Commission’s (INEC) suspension of last Saturday’s presidential election have not stopped flying. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)...
By SOC Okenwa… Last Saturday (February 16th) ought to have witnessed the organization of the much-anticipated presidential election in Nigeria. But it never happened! At the...
Opposition parties ignore INEC, tell members to resume campaign for Atiku Opposition political parties under the aegis of Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP), has instructed...
By Jude Ndukwe…. The sudden postponement of the 2019 general elections by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, came to Nigerians as a very rude shock...
By Jerome-Mario Utomi… With just a few days to the planned general election in the country, it will be appropriate to acknowledge two remarkable developments. First...
By Jerome-Mario Utomi … As the nation pulls closer to the February 2019 general polls, like other well-meaning Nigerians, I have gained new awareness to the...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said it would manually transmit results of the forthcoming general elections rather than electronically. The commission Chairman, Mahmood Yakubu,...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) for all newly registered voters between 2017 and 2018 are ready for collection. Mahmood Yakubu,...
Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Professor Mahmood Yakubu, has described some of the outcome of political parties primaries for the 2019 general elections...
The chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmood Yakubu has been warned against succumbing to pressure to manipulate the electoral process for President...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Friday gave reasons it will not implement in 2019 elections all the provisions of the amended Electoral Act. The...
Following revelation that President Muhammadu Buhari once again did not submit his secondary school certificate to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as a presidential candidate...
The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, has identified rising security challenges in the country and logistics as the major reasons...
By Jude Ndukwe… During his screening exercise before the senate prior to his confirmation as Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof Mahmud Yakubu...
By Omoshola Deji…. After about thirty years of stern military rule, Nigeria re-embraced democracy in 1999 and five elections have produced Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo (two term),...
The suspended work on the budget of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for the 2019 general elections will resume on the 27th of August. The...
A meeting of the joint committee of the National Assembly on Thursday to consider the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) N189 billion supplementary budget for the...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said that it is going to feed policemen who will participate during 2019 general elections with N6 billion. The electoral...
A Federal High Court, sitting in Abuja, on Tuesday insisted that the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Professor Mahmood Yakubu be arrested and...
Respite has come the way of Professor Mahmood Yakubu, the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). The Court of Appeal, Abuja, Monday ordered a...
Just months away to the 2019 general elections, 136 groups have applied to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) seeking to be registered as political parties....
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu has described as untrue and baseless Ekiti State governor Ayodele Fayose’s rigging allegation against the commission....
The Southern and Middle Belt Leaders’ Forum on Sunday cried out for the suspension of the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Mahmood Yakubu....
Ahead of the 2019 general elections, a vote of no confidence has been passed on the Independent National Electoral Commission’s (INEC’s) chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, by...
The chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC ), Professor Mahmood Yakubu, on Friday revealed what the futile exercise to recall Senator Dino Melaye cost...
While Senator Dino Melaye is being treated in a hospital following injuries he sustained in a bid to escape the custody of the security operatives, the...
The chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmood Yakubu, on Monday in Abuja, expressed worries over the disturbing incidences of election meddling through...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Tuesday released the timetable for the 2019 general elections. While briefing journalists, INEC said the presidential and National Assembly elections...
Ahead 2019 general elections, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, has said that the commision would not mind sacking all staff and...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has inaugurated a 16-member Election Project Plan Committee (EPPC) with the mandate to coordinate its preparations for the 2019 elections....
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, has exonerated the commission from incidents of failed elections in the country. He stated in Abuja...
Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu has said that governorship elections in Kogi and Bayelsa states will hold before ending of 2019. Yakubu...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, said commencement of continuous voters’ registration (CVR) will begin by April 2017, till an undisclosed date....
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, on Tuesday revealed that 86 new political associations want to be registered as political parties ahead...
