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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has postponed the governorship and state assembly elections till March 18. The exercise was previously scheduled to hold on March 11, but INEC, citing a logistics crisis stemming from BVAS configuration and transportation, said the election could not hold again as scheduled following a meeting of its executives on Wednesday evening. “The elections were ...

The Presidential Election Petition Court, PEPC, sitting at the Court of Appeal in Abuja, on Wednesday, gave the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, the nod to reconfigure the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System, BVAS, it used for the presidential election. The court, in a unanimous decision by a three-member panel of Justices, held that stopping the electoral body from reconfiguring the ...

The Supreme Court has ordered that old N200, N500, N1,000 notes remain in circulation till December 31, 2023. The apex court which gave the order on Friday, also nullified the Federal Government’s naira redesign policy, declaring it as an affront to the 1999 Constitution. The Supreme Court delivered judgement in the suit brought against the Federal Government on the naira ...

Nigeria’s president-elect, Bola Tinubu has received his Certificate of Return from the chairman of the Independent Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmood Yakubu. The former Lagos State governor received the certificate on Wednesday. Kashim Shettima, the vice president-elect also received his certificate. Tinubu won 12 states, his closest rival Atiku Abubakar of the People’s Democratic PDP, also won 12 states. The ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated the winner of 2023 Presidential Election, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Reacting to the presidential election results announced this morning by Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Mahmoud Yakubu, President Buhari said: “I congratulate His Excellency Bola Ahmed Tinubu on his victory. Elected by the ...

The Independent National Electoral Commission Chairman and Chief Returning Officer, Professor Mahmood Yakubu at 2:30am Wednesday, declared the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Ahmed Tinubu as the winner of Saturday’s Presidential election.   Tinubu was declared the winner of the election on Wednesday morning, after the completion of the collation and announcement of results from across ...

The All Progressives Congress and its presidential candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, on Tuesday, commenced a legal battle to prevent moves by opposition parties to halt the ongoing collation of Saturday’s presidential election results. The candidate and his party filed a suit to restrain the Labour Party and the People’s Democratic Party preventing the continuous announcement and collation of results of ...

The Peoples Democratic Party, the Labour Party and the African Democratic Party have asked the Chairman of the Independent Electoral Commission (INEC), Mahmood Yakubu, to step aside. The three parties in a joint press conference on Tuesday, in Abuja alleged that the February 2023 presidential election was marred with violence, rigging and intimidation of voters. The parties demanded the conduct ...

A total of 87.2 million Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) have been collected by Nigerians, out of the 93.4 million registered voters ahead of the general election, starting from this Saturday, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said. The number of collected PVCs which is already becoming a matter of concern is contained in a document released by the INEC ...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday adjourned judgement in the new naira policy suit to March 3, 2023. The court, which heard the case on Wednesday, was filled to capacity with a retinue of Senior Advocates of Nigeria and other lawyers. The Court had temporarily banned the implementation of the February 10 deadline of the CBN from making the old N200, ...