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INEC chairman Mahmood Yakubu

February 20, 2023

Bayelsa: Riverine communities warn elections may be delayed over blockage by water hyacinth

Even when there is no water hyacinth, each time there is an election and materials are distributed by INEC, they arrive around 12:00 p.m. or 1:00 p.m.

Riverine community used to illustrate this story
February 20, 2023

INEC to deploy 17,812 ad hoc staff for polls in Adamawa: REC

Mr Yunusa said the BVAS had been tested to ensure its efficacy and capability to stimulate the electronic transmission of election results during elections.

INEC conducting BVAS accreditation in Ondo State
February 19, 2023

How 2023 will be an election like no other

One question to be answered in this election could be whether the country has the imagination and resilience to find pathways beyond these traditional fissures.

Peter Obi, Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Atiku Abubakar.
February 13, 2023

Buhari’s weekly performance review amid naira scarcity, Tinubu campaigns

Mr Buhari’s week is rolled by the naira crisis of which he’s considered an architect.

Buhari and Osibanjo
February 12, 2023

INEC restates neutrality ahead of general elections

Mahmood Yakubu, the Chairman, INEC said this when he addressed Supervisory Presiding Officers (SPOs) for the 2023 general election in Abuja.

Mahmood Yakubu addressing Supervisory Presiding Officers (SPOs) for the 2023 general election
February 10, 2023

INEC seeks NBA’s support in handling electoral cases

INEC has solicited the support of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) in handling its numerous pre-electoral cases in courts across the country.

Independent National Electoral Commission and Nigerian Bar Association
February 8, 2023

Appeal court affirms Peter Obi as Labour Party presidential candidate

The court held that the appellant who also filed suit at the lower court has no locus standi to institute the action.

Allied Peoples Movement (APM) and Peter Obi
February 8, 2023

Fuel/Cash Crisis: Elections will hold as scheduled, INEC assures after meeting Buhari

He identified the scarcity of petroleum products and the naira redesign as major challenges confronting INEC. However, Mr Yakubu said solutions were already in sight.

Prof. Yakub Mahmood
January 31, 2023

INEC urges registered voters to participate in Saturday’s mock accreditation

“I seize the opportunity of this visit to appeal to Nigerians to please go to the designated polling units,” the INEC chair said.

INEC chairman Mahmood Yakubu
January 21, 2023

Chatham House and Nigeria’s growing cultural cringe

Cultural cringe is the deep-rooted inferiority complex that causes psychologically damaged, formerly colonised people to inferiorise and disdain their own country and its culture.

Peter Obi and Bola Tinubu in Chatham House