Justice Stephen Pam of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Wednesday, August 1, 2018 ordered the arrest of chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Mahmood Yakubu, for refusing to appear in court.

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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced a temporary suspension of the ongoing continuous voter registration (CVR) exercise. According to Augusta Ogakwu, Secretary to the commission, who announced this in a memo to resident

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Days after his release, the senator representing Abia South, Enyinnaya Abaribe, claimed his arrest and detention by the Department of State Services (DSS) was part of politics by the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). Senator

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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced the ban of mobile telephones at polling centres during the September 22 governorship election in Osun State. INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in the state, Mr. Olusegun

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The British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Paul Arkwright has warned the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and the Independent National Electoral Commission, against bias ahead of the 2019 general elections. The UK envoy spoke when

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Former chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Attahiru Jega, has said that the current leadership of the Commission has made significant and commendable progress since taking over in November 2015. Jega who spoke

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President Muhammadu Buhari has rejected the amendment to the Electoral Act, which intended to change the country's elections sequence, Daily Trust has learned. The president, it was gathered, gave three reasons for withholding assent to

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Kogi state Governor Yahaya Bello, will be made to face the full wrath of the law over the allegation of double INEC registration, an official of the electoral body has revealed. While speaking at the

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The Peoples Democratic Party has rejected the composition of the Independent National Electoral Commission committee set up to investigate the existence of underage voters in some states. INEC Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, had constituted the

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The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, has warned politicians and political parties to stop campaign, ahead of the 2019 general elections. He said the ban on campaign was still

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