Final push to register millions of Nigerian voters

Feb. 5 | Nigeria wrapped up a huge effort to register voters in Africa’s most populous nation Saturday ahead of April elections after a process that was sometimes chaotic and violent — but better than past years. The aim was to provide what many...

National Assembly makes provision to extend voters registration

Jan. 25 | Nigerian lawmakers passed a bill Tuesday that could extend a voter registration drive for the oil-rich nation’s April elections by more than two weeks, responding to criticisms surrounding the effort. The vote by Nigeria’s House of Representatives...

Nigeria Vote 2011: ACN holds national convention amidst great optimism

Dec. 22 | By Yemi Ifegbuyi, exclusive for Nigerians Abroad magazine Nigeria’s mainstream opposition party, Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, on Tuesday held its much anticipated National Convention, and re-elected many of the party’s officials, but Dr. Usman...

INEC to receive equipments needed to create new voter list in 35 days

Nov. 7 | Nigeria’s national election board says it has signed an agreement with companies that will supply Africa’s most populous nation with the equipment needed to carry out a massive voter registration drive. A Sunday statement from the Independent...

Wole Soyinka’s Speech at the DFPF Party Convention

Sep. 27 | Chairman’s Speech at the DFPF Party Convention Comrades-in-arms in the embattled field of the Nigerian nation space, welcome. You will immediately observe that I do not refer to the space whose passports a number of you carry by the brief name by which...

INEC to review election timetable, needs more time to register voters

Sep. 19 | Nigeria’s independent electoral commission has asked for more time to prepare before the oil-rich nation’s presidential election. A spokesman for the Independent National Electoral Commission told The Associated Press on Sunday that the...

Jonathan signs amended electoral act

Aug. 20 | Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan signed an amended electoral act on Friday that should clear the way for the country’s electoral commission to finalize the timetable for presidential and parliamentary polls. The Independent National Electoral...

Jonathan to announce new INEC chairman next week

Jun. 1 | President Goodluck Jonathan announced in Nice, France, that he has finalised a list of those he believes are credible, competent and non-partisan Nigerians who will be nominated to serve as Chairman and electoral commissioners in the Independent National...

Nigeria’s Election 2011 Check List

May. 17 | By Chinedu Vincent Akuta. An activist and leader of “Support Option A4 Group” Leicester-UK I am sure that most political parties/political leaders in Nigeria, watched as Gordon Brown (Ex British Prime Minister) resigned from his position after...

Jonathan names Solomon Soyebi as INEC acting chairman

May. 12 | The President Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has approved the appointment of Prince Solomon Adedeji Soyebi as the acting Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) pending the appointment of a Chairman for the Commission. Making...