Tag: #INEC

Oct

2025

Take Action, Kalu Urges S/Easterners, as Voter Registration Hits 6.8 Million

POLITICS#DrEmekaCharlesKalu, #ECKFoundation, #INEC, #Voterregistration

Take Action, Kalu Urges S/Easterners, as Voter Registration Hits 6.8 Million Over 6.8 million Nigerians have registered for the Continuous Voter Registration exercise. Women account for 52.23% (3,581,562), while men make up 47.77% (3,275,417). Youths aged 18-34 represent 4,689,263 of the registrants, students comprise 1,728,384, and persons with disabilities number 154,479. The completed online pre-registrations total 658,766, alongside 557,282 physical registrations. In light of this positive development, E.C.K. Foundation President, Chief Dr Emeka Kalu, is urging Southeast voters, especially those in Abia North and Abia State, to take the ongoing INEC voter registration exercise seriously. In a statement, Dr Kalu…

Oct

2025

By Famous Reporters

Arrest former INEC chairman, Mahmood, court orders IGP

NATIONAL NEWS#Arrestyakubumahmood, #Electoralirregularities, #INEC, #YakubuMahmood

Arrest former INEC chairman, Mahmood, court orders IGP The Federal High Court sitting in Osogbo, the Osun State capital, has again ordered the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Kayode Egbetokun, to arrest the former INEC chairman, Prof Mahmoud Yakubu, for an offence relating to contempt of court. The court gave this directive in spite of Yakubu's exit as the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). The order was issued a few hours after Yakubu left the office as the INEC chairman. It will be recalled that earlier, the Action Alliance, (AA), had instituted a case before the court…

Oct

2025

By Famous Reporters

JUST IN: New INEC Acting Chairman Assumes Office, as Yakubu bows out

NATIONAL NEWS#INEC, #MayAgbamuche-Mbu, Yakubu Mahmood

JUST IN: New INEC Acting Chairman Assumes Office, as Yakubu bows out Following the completion of two tenures, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, the former National Commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission, May Agbamuche-Mbu, will take over as the Acting Chairman of the Commission. May Agbamuche is the oldest serving national commissioner in the electoral body, and has emerged as the acting national chairman. This followed the formal handover of duties by Professor Mahmood Yakubu, who is proceeding on a terminal leave. The announcement was made by Yakubu, on Tuesday at the INEC headquarters in Abuja during a stakeholders’ meeting with…

Aug

2025

By Famous Reporters

Enugu ADC Rejects INEC’s Voter Registration Figures, Alleges Attempt…

POLITICS#ADCCoalition, #INEC, #Misrepresentation, #Voteregistration

Enugu ADC Rejects INEC’s Voter Registration Figures, Alleges Attempt… Enugu, Nigeria – The African Democratic Congress (ADC) Enugu State Chapter has strongly rejected the recently released voter registration figures by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for Enugu State and the entire Southeast, describing the numbers as “false, manipulated, and designed to suppress the voting power of the region.” In a press statement signed by Comrade David C. Ani, State Publicity Secretary of the ADC in Enugu State, the party expressed shock and disappointment at the data published by INEC, insisting that it does not reflect the reality on the…

Nov

2023

By Famous Reporters

OFF-CYCLE ELECTIONS: PSC Monitors Arrive Duty Posts, Releases Numbers For Public Complaints

NATIONAL NEWS#INEC, #SolomonArase

OFF-CYCLE ELECTIONS: PSC Monitors Arrive Duty Posts, Releases Numbers For Public Complaints KOGI, IMO, BAYELSA GOVERNORSHIP ELECTIONS: PSC Monitors Arrive Duty Posts As Commission, Releases Dedicated Phone Numbers For Public Complaints -Arase charges them to live above board Off-cycle elections monitoring staff of the Police Service Commission have arrived their respective duty posts in the nine Senatorial districts of the three states of Kogi, Imo and Bayelsa Governorship elections where it will be holding tomorrow, Saturday, 11th November 2023. In a press statement e-signed and released to the National Association of Online Security News Publishers, NAOSNP by the Commission's Spokesperson,…

Jul

2023

By Famous Reporters

Deputy Speaker Admits Submitting Fake SSCE Result To INEC

NEWS#INEC, #Speaker, #SSCE

Deputy Speaker Admits Submitting Fake SSCE Result To INEC The Deputy Speaker of the Benue State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Danladi Lami, has confirmed to the Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Makurdi, the state capital, that she truly submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Senior School Certificate Examination certificate not obtained from the West African Examination. The embattled Deputy Speaker further admitted that the deed poll dated May 10, 2022, wherein her name was changed from Ogenyi Danladi Lami to Danladi Lami, which she tendered before the Tribunal was not registered with the Nigerian Civil Registry. Lami,…