The Human and Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA Resource Centre), an NGO, has asked the CBN and the EFCC to clamp down on illicit funds transactions ahead of the gubernatorial and House of Assembly elections. This is contained in a statement…
The 2023 presidential election has been concluded and the result announced. The electoral umpire, the Independent National Electoral Commission has declared a winner, issued a certificate of return to the presidential and vice-presidential candidate of the ruling party and converted…
By Lasisi Olagunju | The 2023 presidential election in Nigeria is not the worst in human history. That dubious reputation belongs in Liberia where, in 1927, the then President Charles D.B. King scored 234,000 votes out of a total of…
By Farooq A. Kperogi | Twitter: @farooqkperogi In the aftermath of INEC’s declaration of APC’s Bola Ahmed Tinubu as the winner of the February 25 presidential election, a broad range of Nigerians from a certain demographic category have been squirming…
The Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD) has identified areas where the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) failed during and after the February 25 presidential and national assembly elections. The elite pro-democracy think tank in a statement issued on Tuesday…
Nigeria’s president-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has promised to give his best when he assumes office in May 29, 2023. Tinubu said this in the early hours of Wednesday while giving his acceptance speech following the declaration of the Independent National…
Bola Ahmed Tinubu, candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has been declared winner of the February 25, 2023 presidential election. Tinubu was declared winner by Professor Mahmood Yakubu, Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), in the early…
The Federal Government of Nigeria has replied former president Olusegun Obasanjo asking him to allow the ongoing announcement of the presidential election be concluded. This was conveyed in a statement issued on Tuesday and signed by the Minister of Information…
The European Union Election Observation Mission (EU EOM) to Nigeria, in its preliminary report of the just concluded presidential and national assembly elections has said that failure for the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to execute Saturday’s polls according to…
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged the US President Joe Biden to exercise his powers “pursuant to the Presidential Proclamations 7750 and 8697 and the Immigration and Nationality Act to ban Nigerian officials, politicians and other perpetrators and…
