The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has called on civil society organisations (CSOs) to expand their election monitoring efforts beyond general elections to include political party...
The Police Service Commission (PSC) has decried vote-buying in Saturday’s governorship election in Ondo State. The PSC spokesman, Ikechukwu Ani, in a statement in Abuja, lamented...
The ongoing Ondo governorship election has been tainted by allegations of vote-buying, with personnel of the Department of State Services (DSS) apprehending a suspected vote buyer...
Reports of vote-buying emerged on Saturday at several polling units in Akure, Ondo State, during the ongoing gubernatorial election. Alleged voter inducements were observed at Ward...
The senator representing Edo North Senatorial District, Senator Adams Oshiomhole, has denied allegations that the All Progressives Congress (APC) was involved in vote-buying. Senator Oshiomhole made...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has deployed its operatives to Edo to check vote-buying in Saturday’s governorship election in the state. The EFCC’s Head...
Nigeria’s fight against electoral corruption faces a worrying trend, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). Their latest report, “Corruption in Nigeria: Patterns and trends...
The Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD) on Saturday decried the widespread vote-buying and violence in the Bayelsa, Imo and Kogi governorship elections. A member of...
The Court of Appeal, Abuja, on Wednesday, dismissed an allegation of vote-buying leveled against the Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)...
Police operatives in Ogun have arrested 30 persons for alleged violence and vote-buying in last Saturday’s governorship and the house of assembly elections in the state....
The Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD) has decried the low number of security personnel deployed to polling units in the governorship and state house of...
Massive vote buying has been reported in several local government areas of Cross River State which has led to the disruption of the governorship and State...
While voting has commenced for the Governorship and State House of Assembly elections in Gombe State and has been peaceful so far, the citizens are being...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested a lecturer with the Sarwuan Tarka University in Makurdi, Benue State, Dr. Cletus Tyokyaa, for alleged vote-buying....
Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have intercepted the sum of N32.4 million allegedly meant for vote-buying in Lagos. The commission confirmed the...
The thorny issue of vote-buying reared its ugly head, once again, after the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) alleged that some politicians are planning to...
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The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abdulrasheed Bawa, on Wednesday reaffirmed the commission’s readiness to check vote-buying, and other electoral frauds in...
The Coalition of Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) of Nigeria, has alleged that the Supreme Court’s decision on Wednesday suspending the February 10 deadline for the use...
Members of Bauchi Elders for Sustainable Development have raised the alarm alleging that the activities of the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development,...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Wednesday promised to ensure credible conduct of this month’s elections. The EFCC Chairman, Abdulrasheed Bawa, gave the assurance...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will work with the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Matters Commission (ICPC) and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has proposed one year jail term for vote-buying during the 2023 general elections. Vote-buying is one of the major problems...
The Nigeria Police has devised new strategies to arrest and prosecute politicians who are into vote buying ahead of the 2023 general elections, according to the...
The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abdulrasheed Bawa, on Monday, cautioned Nigerians against vote-buying ahead of the 2023 general elections. Bawa, who...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has raised the alarm that some politicians are buying Permanent Voters’ Cards (PVCs) ahead of the 2023 elections. The INEC...
The Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, on Wednesday, called for the inclusion of lessons on the danger of vote-buying in school curricula in the country. Lawan made...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has called for the speedy passage of the National Electoral Offences Commission and Tribunal Bill by the National Assembly to...
Vote buying has been referred to as an evil force that threatens the integrity of the democratic process in the nation by Sanusi Lamido, the 14th...
Nigerians felicitated with Dolapo Osinbajo, the wife of the Vice President of Nigeria, Yemi Osinbajo, as she clocked 55 today (Saturday). The Nigerian lawyer and political...
Like a ravaging epidemic, vote buying is rapidly becoming a momentary menace in Nigeria political space. Since the country returned to democracy in 1999, vote buying...
Mr P whose real name is Peter Okoye, one half of the popular singing twin duo, P Square has admonished Nigerians not to sell their votes...
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Ayo Arise, declared on Saturday that vote-buying has become a major feature of Nigerian politics. He stated...
A former Governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi has alleged instances of vote-buying in the ongoing Anambra elections. Obi made these claims during an interview with...
Yiaga Africa has said that there were vote buying and other electoral offences during the Saturday governorship election in Ondo State. It said the offences were...
Fears have once again been raised over the alleged commercialisation of votes in Nigeria by desperate politicians – an issue that was reported during the just...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has charged security agencies in Edo and Ondo States to arrest anyone involved in vote-buying during the forthcoming governorship polls....
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has informed that it is doing everything within its capacity to eradicate ‘do or die’ attitude and the menace of...
The Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD) has expressed concern over reported cases of vote-buying ahead of Saturday’s governorship election in Kogi State. In a statement...
The Plateau State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has accused the All Progressives Congress (APC) of vote buying in the ongoing by-election for Pengana...
Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, on Tuesday labelled electoral corruption as the worst form of corruption as it undermines...
Kindly tick your preferred answer. Thank you. The 2019 general elections have come and gone. But the reverberations remain. The elections were controversial in many ways....
The Councillor representing Bolari East in Gombe local government area of Gombe State, Ishiyaku Garba, has been sentenced to three months imprisonment over vote buying. Justice...
The Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD) has spoken on the March 9 Governorship and house of assembly polls, pointing out the high rate of vote...
Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Saturday reportedly caught a governorship candidate with a bag full of cash. They were however said...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has announced the arrest of the Acting Accountant General of Imo State and over 10 officials of the Kwara...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has alleged that agents of the All Progressives Congress (APC) were engaged in vote buying in some polling units in Zamfara...
The brickbats over which party is amassing money to woo the electorate in the forthcoming general elections is unending, at least four days to the polls....
By John Chukwu… The general elections are nearby. Nigeria is on the brink of another democratic history. Thus, Nigerians are in the mood to hit the...
