The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has proposed sweeping reforms to improve the country’s electoral system, following lessons learnt from the 2023 general elections and subsequent off-cycle polls. Among the reforms being proposed are diaspora voting and phasing out of the use of Permanent Voter Card (PVC) during elections. The INEC Chairman, Prof, Mahmood Yakubu, disclosed these on Thursday in …

Five days after the 21 September governorship election in Edo State, renowned columnist Ikechukwu Amaechi, in a piece titled, If I Were Asue Ighodalo, stated: “The Edo election has confirmed what every discerning Nigerian knows: the Mahmood Yakubu-led Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is a fraud with no moral fibre to conduct free, fair, and credible elections. If I were …

The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmoud Yakubu, has told people insinuating that the creation of Nigeria is artificial, to dismiss the thinking that Nigeria is divisible after a century of its amalgamation. He spoke at an International Conference organized by Arewa House, Department of History, Political Science, and Economics, alongside the Faculty of Law, Ahmadu …

The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, on Monday arrived in Benin, Edo State capital, 12 days ahead of the governorship election scheduled for 21 September. According to his itinerary, the INEC boss will on Tuesday witness a mock accreditation in three locations, a readiness assessment of INEC local government offices, inter-agency consultative committee on …

The mistake Nigerian leaders make is in thinking that the citizens easily forget. But that is wrong. Times have changed. With improvements in technology and other electronic devices, errors by the leaders are kept, to be served them at appropriate moments, often in harsh measures. In other words, the evil that men do, now lives with them. Some call it …

The Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC) on Wednesday said that, contrary to perception, it had nothing to hide regarding the conduct of the 2023 general election. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu stated this at the Post Election Review of the 2023 General Election with media stakeholders in Lagos. Yakubu said there were many …

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said that it is ready for the announcements of the Presidential and National Assembly elections conducted yesterday. The collation centre will now open for the announcement by 6 pm, according to INEC National Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu. Yakubu had said on Saturday that the collation of elections on Sunday by midday. He said …

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said that it would start the collation of 2023 presidential and National Assembly elections on Sunday by midday. At a news conference on Saturday in Abuja, INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu said results were expected by the commission from the states starting from Sunday. “I will like to invite you at midday tomorrow …

As part of its growing desire to integrate technology into Nigeria’s electoral process, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) may in the foreseeable future adopt the use of body odour for voter verification. Some years ago, voters were verified by simply looking at their paper cards and checking the voter register. In 2012 however, INEC introduced the Smart Card Readers …

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said that this year’s general elections face serious threat of cancellation unless the security situation is improved. As scheduled, the presidential and National Assembly elections are 47 days away, while the governorship and state assembly polls hold a fortnight afterwards. At the validation of election security training resources held in Abuja on Monday, INEC …