The Nigerian Senate on Tuesday amended the Electoral Act to allow electronic transmission of election results, while retaining manual submission as a fallback for technical failures. The move reverses the upper chamber’s earlier rejection of compulsory electronic transmission from polling units to INEC’s Result Viewing Portal (IREV). Senator Tahir Monguno, who sponsored the motion, said…
The Lagos State Government has sealed off the popular Ladipo Spare Parts Market, along the Murtala Muhammed International Airport Road (Apapa–Oshodi Expressway), in Mushin due to repeated environmental violations. Tokunbo Wahab, the Commissioner for the Environment and Water Resources, said taskforce operatives carried out the enforcement action as part of the state’s ongoing efforts to…
The Senate was divided, yesterday, as 13 frontline opposition senators kicked against reports that the upper chamber of the National Assembly rejected mandatory electronic transmission of election results in its Wednesday’s passage of the Electoral Act 2022 (Repeal and Re-enactment) Amendment Bill 2026. As outrage trailed the Senate’s reported decision, Senators Enyinnaya Abaribe, Victor Umeh…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has downplayed concerns over a meeting called by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), saying there is no cause for alarm despite what it described as a controversial invitation. This was stated in a post on the official Facebook page of the PDP, signed by the party’s National Publicity Secretary,…
