Featured Politics

From Akpata to Amupitan: How INEC Chairmen Have Shaped Nigeria’s Democracy Since 1999

Promise Eze 14 October 2025 0

Since 1999, Nigeria’s democracy has risen, stumbled, and risen again — and through every election, one institution has stood at the centre of it all: the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). From the late Justice Ephraim Akpata, who midwifed the Fourth Republic, to Professor Joash

Politics

National Council of state approves Joash Amupitan’s nomination as new INEC chairman,

Awwal Owolabi 9 October 2025 0

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has nominated Professor Joash Ojo Amupitan (SAN), a legal scholar from Kogi State, as the new chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). The nomination, which received the unanimous approval of the National Council of State on Wednesday, follows the completion of Professor Mahmood Yakubu’s tenure in October 2025. Yakubu,

News

BREAKING: INEC: Mahmood Yakubu hands over to AVM Muazu as interim chairman

Ihesiulo Grace 9 November 2020 0

By Tunde Opalana Pending his second term confirmation by the Nigerian Senate, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu on Monday handed over to AVM Ahmed Muazu(rtd) as the interim Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). The Daily Times recalled that President Muhammadu Buhari just like week re – appointed Prof. Yakubu for a second and final […]

News Politics

Edo/Ogun Elections: INEC reveals why voters ‘might’ be disfranchised

Ihesiulo Grace 11 September 2020 0

The Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, has said that to ensure the safety of voters during the governorship polls, voters for Edo and Ondo governorship elections who failed to wear their face masks will be disfranchised. Yakubu disclosed this at the Presidential Task Force (PTF) briefing on COVID-19 on Thursday in […]

Featured Top Stories

Parties deregistration: INEC sticks to its gun as Court halts action

Ihesiulo Grace 18 February 2020 0

.Says court can’t stop action already taken .The parties have legal rights which must be protected -Judge The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said there is no going back on the recent deregistration of 74 political parties. The Daily Times recalls that the Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday, restrained Commission from de-registering 31

News Politics Top Stories

INEC wants NASS to expedite action on Electoral Offences Commission

Ihesiulo Grace 13 March 2018 0

Ï We’re handling 1080 cases of Electoral Offences since 2015- Chairman Ï Says commission files 124 cases, secures 60 convictions The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has urged the National Assembly and other stakeholders to expedite action on the bill to establish the National Electoral Offences Commission/Tribunal ahead of the 2019 general elections. INEC

News Top Stories

INEC sets up 8-man panel to probe over under-aged voting in Kano

Ihesiulo Grace 22 February 2018 0

Following allegation of issuance of voters cards and subsequent voting by under-aged persons in the recently conducted local government elections in Kano State, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has set up a committee to investigate the allegations. The INEC Chairman, Prof Mahmood Yakubu, constituted the committee on Wednesday while receiving members of

News Top Stories

We’ll collate Ekiti, Osun guber polls electronically – INEC chairman

Ihesiulo Grace 31 January 2018 0

The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Mahmood Yakubu, has disclosed that the commission is fully prepared to deploy the electronic collation and transmission platforms in the conduct of governorship elections in Ekiti and Osun states in July and September this year. He added that the development will be replicated during the […]

News

74 million Nigerians register to vote — INEC chairman

Ihesiulo Grace 19 January 2018 0

The Chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Mahmood Yakubu, says the commission had 74 million voters in its register by the second week of January. The INEC Director of Voter Education and Publicity, Oluwole Osaze-Uzzi, made the fact known in a statement in Abuja on Friday. Mr. Osaze-Uzzi quoted Mr. Yakubu as making the […]

Politics

INEC registers 21 new political parties

Ihesiulo Grace 15 December 2017 0

Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has registered twenty one (21) more political parties, making the total number of political parties in the country sixty seven (67). According to a press release issued by the commission yesterday, the newly registered parties are; All Blending Party, (ABP), All Grassroots Alliance, (AGA), Alliance For New Nigeria, (ANN),

Politics

Nigeria’s democracy, second largest worldwide, says INEC Chairman

Ihesiulo Grace 21 December 2016 0

…Assures Cameroun of technical assistance over poll The Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Mahmood Yakubu, said that Nigeria has one of the most sophisticated and largest biometric register in the world made up of 70 million voters. Yakubu stated that Nigeria’s presidential democracy is second largest in the world, coming after

News

Declare Ikpazu as Gov.-Elect Of Abia, PDP Tells INEC

Ihesiulo Grace 22 April 2015 0

  In a press conference in Abuja on Tuesday, The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has asked the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to declare its candidate, Victor Ikpazu, as winner of the April 11 Governorship election in Abia. Speaking to newsmen, PDP’s National Publicity Secretary, Mr Olisa Metuh, alleged that the military was cooperating with […]

News

INEC Sets up Fact Finding Committee over Poll Irregularities in Rivers

Ihesiulo Grace 30 March 2015 0

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has set up a three-member fact finding mission to ascertain the veracity of the allegation of electoral irregularities raised by the Rivers State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in respect of saturday’s presidential and National Assembly elections. The Rivers’ APC had petitioned the INEC