Buhari appoints Mahmood Yakubu as INEC chairman

ABUJA–President Mohammadu Buhari on Wednesday appointed Professor Mahmood Yakubu as the new chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. Yakubu who is taking over from the Acting Chairman of the Commission, Mrs. Bala Zakari was the former Executive Secretary of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund, TETFUND.

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APC members from Rivers state storm INEC HQ, demand sack of state REC

About 1,000 APC members from Rivers state this morning March 7th stormed the headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission in Abuja, demanding for the immediate sack of the state Resident Electoral Commissioner, Gesila Khan. See photos below:

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Governorship Elections: Card Readers Won’t Malfunction – INEC Assures

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has assured Nigerians that the hitches experienced with the use of card readers in the just concluded presidential elections will not re-occur when Nigerians troop out for gubernatorial elections on Saturday, April 11, 2015.

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Abia Election Results Were Forged – INEC Returning Officer Alleges

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC Returning Officer for the Saturday, 28 March, 2015 Abia North Senatorial and House of Representatives elections, Dr. Ihekweaba Chukwugoziem has raised alarm about threat to his life, following his refusal to be compromised or sign the adulterated results of Abia North NASS elections.

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‘We feared Jonathan would not accept defeat’ - APC

While Professor Attahiru Jega, Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, was announcing the results of the March 28 presidential election on Wednesday, fear of uncertainty engulfed the All Progressives Congress, APC, and its presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari.

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REVEALED: INEC officials, corpers get N1.99m insurance each

Officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission who participated in last Saturday’s presidential and National Assembly election and those who will take part in the governorship and state Houses of Assembly election on April 11 have been insured for N1.99m each.

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Final results of the 2015 presidential elections - Buhari wins

As announced by Prof Attahiru Jega, chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission...
"14 candidates, fielded by 14 political parties participated in the election. We'd like to announce the votes for each party"

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How to vote & What to expect at the Polling Centre

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A voter on arriving the polling station on Saturday will meet a team of between four and five polling officers. The voter will, on arrival, join the queue for accreditation and when it gets to his or her turn, the voter will handover the Permanent Voter’s Card, PVC to an assistant presiding officer, APO, whose duty it is to check the authenticity of the card using the card reader.

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Security beefed up at INEC’s Lagos office

Security has been beefed up at the Lagos state office of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) ahead of Saturday’s presidential election.

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APC tells voters: Ignore IGP, stay after voting

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has told voters to ignore Thursday’s order of Suleiman Abba, inspector-general of police (IGP) warning the electorate against staying around polling booths after casting their ballots in the general election.

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Politicians that cloned, bought PVCs will be disappointed – INEC

ABEOKUTA- The national Commissioner of Independent National Electoral Commission in charge of Oyo, Ogun and Ekiti states, Prof. Lai Olurode, has said politicians who have either cloned or bought up the Permanent Voter Cards from registered voters will be disappointed during the forthcoming elections.

Olurode said this yesterday, at the INEC headquarters in Abeokuta while briefing journalists on the preparedness of the commission.

The  INEC commissioner who allayed the fears of the electorate over the usage of  card readers during the coming elections, said the commission introduced the machines with a view to checking counterfeiting and impersonation during the elections.

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Nigeria2015: Jonathan, Jega, Security Chiefs in crucial Meeting

A crucial meeting with likely implications for the forthcoming general elections, scheduled to hold on March 28 and April 11, is currently underway at the presidential villa, Abuja.

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APC Dismisses DSS Latest Findings

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has dismissed as hogwash the so-called findings of the DSS following its Gestapo-like raid on the party's offices in Lagos, saying the 'findings' presented to the media by the agency on Wednesday is a great disservice to Nigeria and an embarrassment to all intelligence-gathering organizations around the world.

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APC plans to clone INEC database – DSS

The Department of State Services, DSS, has accused the All Progressives Congress of plans to to clone the Independent Electoral Commission, INEC’s database.

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We won’t postpone Feb polls — INEC

ABUJA — The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, yesterday, rebuffed entreaties to postpone next month’s round of elections, saying it was financially and mentally set for the polls.

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2015: Supreme Court to hear appeal challenging Jonathan’s eligibility on December 16

The Supreme Court has scheduled December 16 as a date for the hearing of an appeal filed by a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Umar Ardo, who is challenging the Abuja division of the Court of Appeal’s judgment that refused to join him as a party in an appeal filed by a certain Cyriacus Njoku.

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Police find 1,700 voter cards inside bush

The Lagos State Police Command has recovered no fewer than 1,700 Voter Cards believed to have been hidden by unknown persons inside a bush in the Seme, Badagry area of Lagos.
PUNCH Metro learnt that the VCs, which were concealed in a swampy forest in the area, were recovered by policemen attached to the Area K Command, Morogbo.
Our correspondent gathered that the officers, who were on patrol, stumbled on the hidden election materials on Sunday, November 16.
According to the police, the recovered VCs, which had been handed over to the Independent National Electoral Commission, Lagos State office, are suspected to have been stolen from an INEC worker in the Ajeromi-Ifelodun Local Government Area.

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PLOT TO RIG 2015 ELECTIONS: Jega goes tough, arrests two INEC staff

The National Chairman of Nigeria’s indepen-dent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Attahiru Jega, yesterday confirmed the arrest of two INEC Ad hoc staff for carrying out a house-to-house registration of voters in Kano State.

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Residents Laud Extension PVC Distribution Lagos

Residents of Ogba and Agege, suburbs of Lagos State, on Sunday applauded the extension of the deadline for Permanent Voters Card distribution, saying that it was a welcome development.

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Anger in Lagos, Ogun over hitches in distribution of voter cards

Against high expectations that trailed the massive public enlightenment for residents of Lagos and Ogun States to collect their Permanent Voter Cards, PVCs, the collection turned into a near flop in the two states at the commencement of the three day exercise.

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