…party meets with INEC seeks soft landing  By Tunde Opalana Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC,  Professor Mahmood Yakubu on Tuesday asked the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to clarify position on who is the actual occupant of its National Secretary office.
By Ukpono Ukpong Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmood Yakubu, has revealed that severe congestion at the Commission’s current headquarters forced it to rent additional office spaces for over a decade. He made the disclosure yesterday, at the groundbreaking ceremony of INEC’s new annex building in Abuja. Yakubu noted that the
…laments financial burden of conducting bye- elections By Tunde Opalana The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, after presenting a compelling case for an increased budgetary allocation got the nodding of the National Assembly for additional N86 billion for the 2025 fiscal year. As against the N40 billion budgetary
The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu has emphasized the need to relocate the remaining Fifty-Nine (59) INEC Local Government offices currently housed within the Local Government Secretariats to independent locations. Addressing the House of Representatives Committee on Electoral Matters at the National Assembly Complex
…says presidential candidates will sign Peace Accord again on Wednesday By Tunde Opalana Despite uncertainty that pervades the land five days to the commencement of the 2023 general election, the nation’s Chief Electoral Officer, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu has assured of the preparedness of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to conduct a free, fair and
The Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, Nigerian Aviation Handling Company Plc (nahco aviance), Mr. Idris Yakubu, has promised to lead the attitudinal change and a fresh drive for excellence that the Company requires to move it to the next level. Speaking when he held his maiden meeting with workers at the Head Office of the Company, […]
The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Tuesday admitted former Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mr. Andrew Yakubu, to bail on the sum of N300 million with two eminent sureties in like sum. Trial judge, Justice Ahmed Mohammed, granted the defendant bail while ruling on the bail application that […]
The Independent National Electoral Commission said in Abuja on Tuesday that the possibility of Nigerians living abroad to vote in the 2019 general elections would depend on the amendment to the country’s electoral laws. The Chairman of the Commission, Prof. Mahmoud Yakubu, stated this when he played host to the Senate Committee on Diaspora and […]











