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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

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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

COLUMNS

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 […]

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INEC Chair threatens to sue PDP for defamation

Daily Dispatch March 10, 2023

Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission INEC, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu has advised officials of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP to desist from maligning his character in the media or risk being sued for libel. Chief Press Secretary to the INEC Chairman, Mr Rotimi Oyekanmi who was reacting to calls by the PDP on Prof. Yakubu to […]

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2023 Elections: ECOWAS Parliament to deploy observer mission to Nigeria

Daily Dispatch January 31, 2023

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Parliament is deploying observer mission to Nigeria for the forthcoming general election. The Parliament also plan deploying observer missions for the elections holding in Sierra Leone in June and Liberia in October, this year. The deployments was part the decision taking by the fifth Legislature of the […]