Nigeria Decides 2019

The Senate has confirmed the 43 ministerial nominees appointed by President Muhammadu Buhari. Some of the nominees confirmed during the plenary presided over by Ahmad Lawan include the former governor state of Osun, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, Dr. Chris Ngige, Mrs. Gbemisola Saraki,  Alhaji Lai Mohammed, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, Sen. Godswill …

The Independent National Electoral Commission has said it will resume the distribution of over eleven million uncollected permanent voter cards this month. INEC National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education, Mr. Festus Okoye, in an interview with newsmen in Abuja noted that all the uncollected PVCs were still locked …

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC has expressed concern over the growing number of political parties in Nigeria saying it had made the conduct of elections cumbersome. The commission which said it can deregister parties that fail to meet the constitutional threshold embedded in the 4th alteration to the constitution, however, called on Nigerians to hold …

The Independent National Electoral Commission has resumed the collation of results of the Rivers State governorship election. National Commissioner supervising Bayelsa, Edo and Rivers States, Mrs. May Agbamuche-Mbu, while announcing the resumption of the governorship results collation, assured party agents and other stakeholders of a fair, credible and peaceful collation …

The All Progressives Congress again on Wednesday said it would not share any position in the National Assembly with members of the Peoples Democratic Party. The party’s National Publicity Secretary, Lanre Isa-Onilu, made this known in Abuja that it is winner takes all. There is no room for power sharing …

Former senate leader, Senator Ali Ndume has written the National chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Adams Oshiomhole, to inform him of his decision to run for the office of the president of the senate of the ninth national assembly. Ndume in a letter of intent addressed to Oshiomhole, specifically sought …

Justice Abdulaaziz Waziri of Yola state high court has lifted the interlocutory injunction restraining the Independent National Electoral Commission from conducting supplementary governorship elections in Adamawa state. The INEC had fixed last weekend as the date of the rerun after declaring the earlier election inconclusive but the court stopped the …

Reports just reaching us say the court of appeal sitting in Sokoto state, led by Justice Tom Yakubu, has set aside the judgment of a Zamfara high court on the All Progressives Congress primary election that produced the party’s candidates for the governorship, national and state assembly elections. details will …

The federal high court in Abuja today gave the Independent National Electoral Commission the leeway to continue and conclude the collation of the results of the march 9, 2019 governorship election in the Tafawa Balewa Local Government Area of Bauchi state. Delivering judgment, Justice Inyang Ekwo set aside his earlier …

The Independent National Electoral Commission has released the results of the supplementary governorship election it conducted in some states after it declared the initial poll in the affected states inconclusive. The states where the governorship run-off poll was held are Sokoto, Plateau, Kano, Benue and Bauchi. But while INEC has …