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Dayo Johnson – Akure The Civil Resource Development and Documentation Centre, CIRDDOC has released its findings on the survey of budget transparency and performance by states. The Centre declared Jigawa State top among 36 States on Budget Transparency Index 2020 ranking with Ondo coming second. The survey was funded by the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office, FCDO, formerly known as DFID/UkAid, and implemented by CIRDDOC. Meanwhile, the Ondo State Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Donald Ojogo in a statement in Akure quoted CIRDDOC’s Lead Researcher, Engr Ralph Ndigwe,...

The Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu on Sunday, said amending the Electoral Act without a commitment from stakeholders to do things differently, cannot guarantee free and fair elections. Yakubu said this in an address delivered on his behalf by the INEC National Commissioner in charge of Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus

Chuks Okocha in Abuja The Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu has called on National Assembly to use bipartisan approach in amending the Electoral Act to help improve elections in the country. He made the call at the inauguration of the Joint Technical Committee on the Electoral Act Amendment Bill yesterday in Abuja. The event was organised by the National Assembly Joint Committee on INEC and Electoral Matters with support from Policy and Legal Advocacy Centre (PLAC) and UK Foreign and Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO). The INEC chairman was r...

Daily Post Nigeria Published Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers: 1. No fewer than seven persons have been kidnapped in Kadauri, a community under Jabaka district in Maru Local Government Area of Zamfara State as bandits stormed the village and unleashed terror on the people, kidnapping seven and injuring one villager during the operation. According to the APC chairman of senator Kabiru Garba Marafa’s faction in Maru Local Government, Hon. Sani Gyare, the notorious bandits entered the village with many motorcycles and sophisticated weapons and left with six of h...

The United Kingdom (UK) has disclosed that it spent more than £50million to support electoral processes in Nigeria in the last five years. Sam Waldock, Head of Governance and Stability, UK Foreign and Commonwealth Development Office, spoke at a retreat of the Joint Technical Committee on the Electoral Act Amendment Bill 2020 in Abuja. Waldock said his country was a proud supporter of Nigeria’s democratic process. “In the last five years, the UK had invested over £50million into Nigeria’s democratic process. We recognise Nigeria as the largest democracy in Africa, and a leading member ...