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The Journal seeks to become the most reliable, first-choice Pan-Nigerian information and public knowledge platform. The Journal Nigeria is a serious Journalism from an African Worldview
The Nigeria Democratic Congress has cleared one of the biggest administrative hurdles facing a new party heading into an election, with the Independent National Electoral Commission uploading its approved logo on the commission’s portal after a Federal High Court ruling. Senator Seriake Dickson, the party’s national leader and former Bayelsa State governor, announced the…
The Independent National Electoral Commission has asked the Federal Government to release the balance of its 2026 budget without delay, warning that the preparations for the 2027 general elections cannot stay on track unless the money arrives on time. INEC Chairman, Prof Joash Amupitan, made the appeal in Abuja on Tuesday at a World…
The Independent National Electoral Commission wants voting to begin at the same moment in every polling unit across Nigeria during the 2027 general elections, its chairman, Prof. Joash Amupitan, has said. Amupitan set out the target on Monday in Abuja while delivering a keynote address at a strategic workshop for editors organised by the…
Nigeria’s political class and legal community are divided over what a fresh Supreme Court judgment means for candidates already fielded for the 2027 elections, with two major parties declining to state a position until they see the certified text and lawyers reading the decision in sharply different ways. The apex court ruled on Thursday,…
As the 18 political parties cleared to field candidates begin campaigns for the 2027 general elections, questions are mounting over how they will pay for it, with most declining to say where the money will come from. The concern sits against sharply higher legal ceilings. Under the Electoral Act 2026, which President Bola Tinubu signed…
More than 1,200 candidates cleared to contest Senate and House of Representatives seats in the 2027 general elections list the Senior Secondary School Certificate as their highest educational qualification, according to an analysis of candidate records published by the Independent National Electoral Commission. The review examined the final lists for the National Assembly polls…
The Independent National Electoral Commission moved swiftly on Wednesday, 16 September 2026, to quell mounting opposition hysteria regarding the whereabouts of its chairman, Joash Amupitan. Official spokesmen confirmed that the electoral boss travelled outside Abuja on an approved international mission to represent Nigeria at an institutional conference. The clarification directly answers a barrage of questions…
More than three years after the failure of the portal meant to show Nigerians their votes in real time, a former senior official of the Independent National Electoral Commission has offered a fresh account of what went wrong, saying the commission’s digital systems came under sustained cyberattacks during the 2023 presidential election even as he…
Peter Obi has returned to the most contested question of Nigeria’s last presidential election, alleging that the man who presided over it was not neutral. Speaking in an interview with ARISE News, the presidential candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress said Mahmood Yakubu, who chaired the Independent National Electoral Commission through the February 2023 poll,…
The dispute over the Nigeria Democratic Congress candidates for the 2027 Anambra State House of Assembly elections has shifted from political accusation to a question that can potentially be settled by electronic records, as the Independent National Electoral Commission says its candidate nomination system contains an audit trail capable of showing how the disputed…