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• Ensuring financial independence of State Houses of Assembly and State Judiciary;

  A human rights organisation, the International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law (Intersociety) has called on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission and other anti-graft agencies to beam their searchlights on governors who have gone into lavish squandering of state resources to ensure their preferred candidates win by hook or by crook.  

General Abdulsalami Abubakar has appealed to candidates and political parties to ensure that they maintain the peace throughout the last leg of the democratic transition

On the 7th of March, 2023, the Delta State High Court delivered a landmark judgment that many public commentators now concede as the solution to the

The INEC Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, has placed the REC for Sokoto State, Dr Nura Ali, on indefinite suspension with immediate effect.

From Romanus Ugwu, Abuja  An All Progressives Congress (APC) group, under the auspices of Muhammadu Buhari/Osinbajo Dynamic Support Group, has

A three-member panel of the appellate court, led by Justice Joseph Ikyegh, granted leave to the applicant for the purposes of configuring the BVAS for the election this Saturday.

India’s Supreme Court last week plugged a hole in the procedure for appointment of the members of the Election Commission. It is the body charged with the task of conducting free and fair elections. It conducts elections to the legislatures of the States and the Union Territories, the two houses of Parliament, and the office of the

Taiwo Amodu, Abuja Ahead of next weekend's conduct of governorship and State Assemblies elections, the Independent National Electoral Commission ( INEC)

The inalienable implication of this reality is that we, as a people cannot in truth distance ourselves from the choices we had willfully made for good or for bad, for progress or setback every time in the past 24 years that we have gone to the ballot box and imprinted our thumb to install the next habitués of  our political and in fact, existential institutions; the legislative arms, from the Senate, the House of Representatives through to the State Assemblies; formulators and guardians of our...