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Just in: INEC counters PMB, says voting violators’ll face electoral Act provisions

24 hours after President Muhammadu Buhari unilaterally announced that ballot box snatchers and disrupters of electoral process shall do so at the expense of their lives, the chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Mahmood Yakubu responded and announced…

Issues over INEC and underage voting challenges ahead of 2019 Presidential elections

Jointly written by Chima Christian; Oseloka H. Obaze   The beauty of democracy and indeed its attractiveness to many is the broad participation as well as the guarantee of periodic, genuine and credible elections. Nineteen years after Nigeria returned to…

‘Outlawing manual accreditation on failure of C’Reader may frustrate 2019 elections’

Political analysts and election experts have picked holes on the latest amendment introduced in the ongoing consideration of Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill, 2018 at the House of Representatives. If passed as it is, it means that in any polling unit…