A member of the Senate Committee on INEC and chairman, Senate Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters, Michael Opeyemi Bamidele (Ekiti Central), has said that voting ‘no’ does not mean the rejection of electronic transmission of election results.” Following the passage of the Electoral Act Amendment Bill 2021 that makes the electronic transmission ...

The refusal of the Senate to confirm Lauretta Onochie, President Muhammadu Buhari’s nominee, as national commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), is a triumph of public opinion.

A man being considered by the Senate for appointment as INEC national commissioner, Prof. Sani Adams, was sanctioned on more than one occasion for physical assault, documents obtained by PREMIUM TIMES have shown. This may be one of the reasons he did not pass the screening exercise of the Senate committee that initially reviewed his ...