The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has issued a stern warning to the Federal Government and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), threatening a nationwide boycott of the 2027 general elections if the electronic transmission of results is not legally mandated. In a statement released following its National Executive Council (NEC) meeting in early February 2026, […]
A former National Commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has expressed reservations regarding the persistent calls for the mandatory real-time transmission of election results from polling units to a central portal. In a recent analysis of Nigeria’s electoral framework, the former official argued that while the push for digital transparency is commendable, the […]
President Muhammadu Buhari deserves commendation for his new year pledge to reform Nigeria’s electoral process, but he should have gone further to admit that the exercise through which he was re-elected to a second term in office was grossly flawed. He should have equally confessed that, by law, the degree of irregularity in the 2019 […]
Justice Ahmed Mohammed of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has stopped the National Assembly from going ahead with its planned move to over ride president Muhammadu Buhari veto electoral bill 2018. The court while ruling on the oral application argued before it by Chief Wole Olanipekun SAN, held that National Assembly should maintain […]
Enugu State governor, Hon. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi has said that there has been no free and fair election in Nigeria in the last couple of years. Ugwuanyi said this in Enugu when the Constitutional and Electoral Reform Committee led by Sen. Ken Nnamani paid him a courtesy call. He said that lack of free and fair […]