The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has hinted that it might not continue with the delisting of political parties that failed to secure either a seat in a state Assembly or the National Assembly. The chief press secretary to INEC chairman, Mr. Kayode Idowu, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of […]
A JOINT research by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and other organisations has showed that the enthusiasm of Nigerians in the electoral process waned as violence disrupted the April general elections in some northern states. Consequently, INEC Chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega, said yesterday in Abuja that the commission had taken steps to increase voters’ participation […]
The Independent National Electoral Commission on Thursday disowned a programme of events to celebrate the INEC’s chairman’s one year in office being planned by a group named Nigeria Vote-Count Campaigners. The commission, in a statement by spokesman for the INEC boss, Mr. Kayode Idowu, said, “This programme, scheduled for Thursday, June 9, 2011, in […]
By Paul I. Adujie, New York, NY – May 28 2011 – Elections are over and inaugurations are scheduled to take place nationwide in a matter of days, and nobody is asking for Professor Jega’s head, what could the secret be? Local and international elections observers and monitors have all adjudged and pronounced the elections […]
By the time cases at election petitions tribunals are determined, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will invoke a section in the amended Electoral Act to deregister more than 50 political parties, Saturday Sun can authoritatively reveal. When this provision is invoked, only 10 political parties would survive. Part V, Section 7 of the Electoral […]
Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) yesterday issued certificates of return to elected officials in the 2011 general election in Anambra State amidst tight security with only Dr. Andy Uba of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) being the only senator-elect present. The fear of chaos necessitated INEC inviting security agencies including the military to man the […]
Some staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, serving in Imo State have been suspended from office and others charged to court for alleged complicity in the political stalemate in the state. The supervisory Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, for Imo State, Aniedi Abasi Ikoiwak, who disclosed this Thursday in Owerri while briefing the press, […]
A National Electoral Commissioner, Prof. Lai Olurode, on Wednesday said the Independent National Electoral Commission was compiling the dossier of corps members who participated as ad hoc staff in the just concluded general elections. Olurode, who applauded the performance of the corps members during the polls, said it was only wise to collate and […]
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere” – Martin Luther King Jr. By Philips Akpoviri, NNP, May 4, 2011- I am neither an Imo state resident nor an Imo state indigene. I am of Delta state extraction – a proud Deltan but a prouder Nigerian. My friend who saw this piece prior to publication […]
Indications emerged on Saturday that 36 ad-hoc employees of the Independent National Electoral Commission sent to conduct a rerun election in Ekeremor III State Constituency, Bayelsa State, escaped being killed. Some of the workers who were on duty for the rescheduled election that took place on April 28 were reportedly bathed with fuel at […]
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