Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, yesterday told the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mr. Ibrahim Idris that the Commission would participate in any programme the Nigeria Police might decide to put in place to honour the late Sergeant Peter Uchi, who was murdered []...

Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmood Yakubu, has expressed INEC’s willingness to share ideas and experience with the Cameroonian Election Management Body, Elections Cameroon (ELECAM), in terms of Voter Registration, Voter Cards Distribution and Voter Education. The IN []...

Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmood Yakubu, has assured Nigerians that the Commissions independence has not and will not be compromised by any external forces under any circumstance. He said: “There is no influence on INEC, and there will never be any influence on IN []...

Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmood Yakubu, has disclosed that over 70 incidents of deliberate obstruction of the electoral process were recorded in the Saturday 10th December, 2016 Rivers Federal and State Constituency re-run elections. He described as unprecedented t []...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is to deploy 10,294 staff to conclude the National and State Assembly elections in Rivers State scheduled for Saturday, 10th December 2016. Fourteen (14) categories of staff will be deployed as follows: 3 Returning Officers for the three Senatorial District; 8 Ret []...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has cautioned political actors in the Saturday, December 10th 2016 Rivers Re-run elections to refrain from making statements or pronouncements that could either overheat the policy or instigate violence. The appeal was contained in a press statement, signed and is []...

The candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Oluwarotimi Odunayo Akeredolu, in the Saturday, 26, November, 2016 governorship election held in Ondo State, has been declared winner by the Returning Officer, Professor Abdul Ganiyu Ambali, having polled a total of 224,842 votes to defeat 27 other candidates. Ro []...