Tag: Nigerian elections

1. Introduction A closer examination of our polity will reveal that Nigeria stands at democracy's precarious crossroads. It’s been 27 ...

INEC's Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS). The future lies not in choosing between technology and human processes, but in embedding ...

Chidi Anselm Odinkalu aThis is not an attack on the judicial branch. It is a call to conscience. Judges are ...

In Nigeria where the decision on whom to confer the mandate to rule has been relocated by fiat of the ...

YIAGA Africa's Samson Itodo speaks about election regulators, politicians, CSOs and the citizenry and what each category needs to do ...

All three states saw low voter turnout - indicating that many Nigerians have little interest or confidence in the system ...

On the whole, there isn’t much to cheer about the conduct of the just-concluded off-season elections. The various stakeholders seem ...

The roles of the judiciary in pre- and post-election matters will never stop to beg the question of what should ...

Gavel and Themis statue in the court library. Initially, politicians appeared to believe that they needed to have excellent lawyers ...

We need to demonstrate true commitment to values and ideals underpinning democracy, including diversity and inclusive participation, justice and fairness, ...

As long as elections are not conducted as fairly as possible in their entirety: involving a process where citizens decide ...

Burna Boy A senior South African journalist, Ferial Haffajee, put it this way: “South African media is pretty myopic. There ...

"INEC officials were present at polling stations before they opened at 0830 in just 36.7% of cases according to our ...

"The point I'm making is that everybody arrived late. And before they could start with the voting, it took some ...

Many who seek to reflect on these candidates find it difficult to see the differences between the three. As we ...

As Nigeria prepares for the 2023 general elections, it is worth remembering that the very ability to participate in the election of leaders at every ...

About 160 lady golfers will take part, drawn from several clubs across the country, and other African countries such as ...

An election tribunal There are many politicians in Nigeria who have reclaimed their victories in court and ousted those who ...

The campaigns for the 2023 elections have just opened and the moment has arrived for Nigerians to deliberately begin the ...

The 2023 general elections will witness a lot of intricacies right from the pre-election phase to the election day and ...

Rivers State Governor, Nyesome Wike We must also care how our favourite candidates will win…if they are prepared to feed ...

In Nigeria, we make a mockery of election results because the number of voters is always located between magic and ...

Social media is a very competitive tool. Millions of political aspirants will jostle for the attention of the same audience. ...

''The United States supports a democratic process where the will of the Nigerian people is reflected in the results."

CPJ documents the ill treatment meted on some Nigerian journalists during the elections.