Politics

INEC registers two new political parties

Daily Dispatch June 17, 2025

Ahead of the 2027 general elections, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has registered two new political parties in Nigeria. A notice on the commission’s website, signed by Mrs. A. C. Ogakwu, Secretary to the Commission states that the newly registered parties are the

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INEC, Election Riggers and Twisted Narratives

Daily Dispatch May 13, 2025

By Anietie Ekong Lately, there has been an upsurge of politically motivated and unwarranted attacks on the President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio using several guises camouflaged as serving public interest. The article by Mr Segun Adeniyi on the backpage of THISDAY, Thursday, May 8, 2025 is one of such attempts to rewrite our recent […]

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Another fake news: “INEC Chairman, Mahmood Yakubu is not dead”

Daily Dispatch December 14, 2024

Professor Mahmood Yakubu, Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, is alive. For two days, rumour has been doing the rounds that the INEC boss was dead. THE CONCLAVE learnt from a top shot at the INEC that Yakubu just returned from Ghana where he had monitored the presidential poll in that country. On […]

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INEC holds first 2023 post-election review meeting

Daily Dispatch July 19, 2023

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Wednesday held its first meeting to review the 2023 general elections conducted in Nigeria. The electoral body in a tweet disclosed that the meeting will last for the next two weeks. “The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) today met with Electoral Officers from 36 States, the FCT and […]

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Court fails to extend order stopping suspended Adamawa REC’s prosecution

Daily Dispatch July 18, 2023

A Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday declined  to extend its July 10 interim order stopping the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from prosecuting the suspended Adamawa Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC),  Hudu Ari, pending the hearing and determination of substantive motion. Justice Donatus Okorowo, who refused to extend the order in a suit filed

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INEC, Mahmood Yakubu And History

Daily Dispatch April 16, 2023

By Kazeem Akintunde I cringed and I was moved to tears after reading a tweet from Abubakar Hamma Galafi on his Twitter handle @Galafo_Hamma recently. Galafi wrote: ‘I cursed this man, Prof Mahmoud in every of my sujoud this fasting and appealed to Allah (SWA) to deny him peace and harmony on earth and in […]