Anambra: TMG Demands Improved INEC Equipment, End To Vote-Buying   Barely hours after the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, declared the winner of the Anambra State 2021 gubernatorial election, foremost civil society election observation organisation in Nigeria, the Transition Monitoring Group (TMG), has called for the...

Six-Year Assessment Outlines President’s Anti-Corruption Record (CDD Press Statement)     Pro-democracy think tank, the Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD), an organization advocating for transparent and accountable public governance in the West African sub-region, has released an assessment report on the Buhari administration’s anticorruption programme. The report...

INEC Job and The Risk Elements By Eric Teniola     As expected the tenure of Professor Mahmood Yakubu (58) as chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission ends on Monday November 9. Then came the announcement by Professor Yakubu that the presidential election will hold February 18, 2023...

WANEP Urges INEC To Provide Regular Updates The West Africa Network for Peacebuilding (WANEP) and its partners express disappointment over the postponement of the 2019 general elections originally scheduled for 16th February and 2nd March 2019. Without prejudice to INEC’s reasons for the postponement, the group...

Senate Okays N189bn For INEC’s Elections Budget   The Senate yesterday approved the sum of N189 billion for the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to conduct the 2019 general elections. The approval followed the adoption of the report of the Committee on Appropriations chaired by Sen Danjuma...

The much anticipated launch of one of the first in the series of publications on the 2015 general elections titled, “Against the Run of Play: How an incumbent president was defeated in Nigeria”, has come and gone. As part of the build up to...