The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has called on the commission’s desk officers to develop themselves for greater productivity for the forthcoming general elections to be more credible than that of 2015. Alhaji Umar Ibrahim, Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) Gombe…
How we’ll deliver clean election without new electoral bill — INEC (Vanguard)
Irrespective of President Muhammadu Buhari’s veto of Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill, 2018, Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has worked out strategies to deliver a free, fair and credible election in 2019, using enhanced smart card readers. The Electoral Act (Amendment)…
INEC forecloses use of incident forms in 2019 polls (Guardian)
11 December 2018 As the 2019 general elections inch closer, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has foreclosed the use of incident forms, insisting that the measure was aimed at correcting abuses in previous elections. The commission said its decision…
400,000 PVCs unclaimed in Rivers – Senate Committee (Punch)
The Senate Committee on Independent National Electoral Commission has expressed concern over more than 400,000 Permanent Voter Cards unclaimed in Rivers State INEC office. Senator Suleiman Nazif, Chairman, Senate Committee on INEC, made this known to the News Agency of…
APC Bye-Election victories in Kwara, Bauchi and Katsina shatters myth of PDP return -Presidency
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has recorded a number of significant outcomes in the last 24 hours thereby shattering any assumptions of a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) return. This is a sign of things to come in the 2019 elections.…
Aminu Tambuwal is Sokoto PDP gov candidate – INEC (Punch)
The Independent National Electoral Commission has said that the incumbent Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Tambuwal, is the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the 2019 elections. Tambuwal finished second behind Atiku Abubakar, who emerged the party presidential candidate…
Imo, Zamfara APC candidates missing from INEC guber lists (Guardian)
Unless there are fresh developments such as judicial interventions, the All Progressives Congress (APC) will not field gubernatorial candidates in Imo and Zamfara states next year. The name of the party was missing from the shortlists of political parties’ gubernatorial…
Identity of man who jumped into Lagos Lagoon revealed (Punch) * Minimum Wage: Labour insists on strike despite court ruling (Guardian)
Identity of man who jumped into Lagos Lagoon revealed (Punch) The man who drowned after he reportedly jumped into the Lagoon in Lagos on Friday has been identified as a staff of the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria. A staff…
My credentials still with military, Buhari tells INEC (Punch) * I earned N60.2m in three years, Atiku tells INEC (Nation)
My credentials still with military, Buhari tells INEC (Punch) Over 70 out of the 91 political parties are presenting presidential candidates that will participate in the 2019 Presidential elections, The PUNCH can report. Our correspondent, who visited the FCT office…
APC denies allegation court stopped it sending Delta candidates’ list to INEC
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Delta State has said that there is not truth in the reports that a Federal High Court sitting in Asaba, has restrained the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party from submitting the list…