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Aviation Minister Festus Keyamo has lambasted opposition parties for their criticisms of the Federal Capital Territory area council election outcomes, asserting that they only deem polls credible when victorious and accusing them of fabricating irregularities to incite unrest among Nigerians. In a statement posted on his X account on Sunday, Keyamo dismissed the opposition’s…
The Independent National Electoral Commission has directed anti-corruption agencies to station personnel at polling units during Saturday’s Federal Capital Territory Area Council elections, with orders to make immediate arrests of anyone caught buying or selling votes. INEC Chairman Prof. Joash Amupitan, SAN, delivered the warning at a stakeholders’ meeting in Abuja on Wednesday, describing…
The Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria will reconvene in extraordinary session on Tuesday, February 10, 2026, at noon—a summons that carries the unmistakable weight of a chamber seized by political urgency and facing mounting pressure to reconsider a decision that has fractured consensus on a foundational issue of electoral integrity. The announcement…
Nigeria’s upper legislative chamber has once again resisted efforts to enshrine mandatory electronic transmission of election results into law, preserving the Independent National Electoral Commission’s (INEC) discretion in determining how results are handled from polling units. This decision, reached during deliberations on the Electoral Amendment Bill, revives longstanding tensions over transparency and fraud prevention…
