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The Youth Party has adopted the e-voting method for conduct of its forthcoming primaries for the by-elections slated for February 3, 2024.

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The Lagos High Court in Ikeja has sentenced All Progressives Congress (APC) Ward Leader, Wahab Hammed to one year in prison or a fine of N1 million for

The Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission to fish out its officials involved in the registration of underage persons during the continuous voters’ registration exercise

The Ilorin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arraigned a suspected vote seller, Adekunle Ademola, who was arrested by

The defendant allegedly agreed to sell his vote during the last 18 March governorship/House of Assembly elections in Kwara State.

When President Goodluck Jonathan spoke about his take on off-cycle elections in the early morning of Saturday, November 11, just after he had cast his

He also said that if the trend continued, it might happen that the nation’s presidential could become off-cycle one day, adding that in 2007, the election that brought the late President Umaru Yar’Adua and himself into office as President and Vice President was nearly nullified at the Supreme Court, with four Justices ruling in favour of the election and three against. He described the practice as “odd” and “not a global best practice” for elections.

Off-season governorship elections were held across three states of the federation on November 11, 2023. Before the elections, the Independent National

Editorial: Off-cycle elections, politicians and their old ways.In fact, there was nothing spectacular about the just concluded off-cycle e