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- Highlights, Report Update
- February 21, 2018
An eight-man delegation of the ECOWAS Network of Electoral Commission (ECONEC) has arrived Conakry, the Guinean capital to begin a five-day Post-Election Follow-up Mission (PEFM), as part of measures instituted by the regional body to track and address risk factors that could negatively impact the conduct of peaceful and credible elections in member states. Led
READ MOREIn its bold move to ensure that the two governorship elections in Ekiti and Osun States scheduled for July and September this year respectively are better than previous elections, The Electoral Institute (TEI), the training and research arm of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) organized a Roundtable titled “Anambra Governorship Election: A Post-Mortem and
READ MOREEuropean Union Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr Ketil Karlsen, has said that there is a need for more political inclusion and participation of people living with albinism in the electoral processes in the country. Speaking at a media parley in Abuja, on the challenges of Albinism and the EU intervention in Nigeria, Karlsen, noted that a
READ MOREThe Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has re-constituted its Election Monitoring and Support Centre (EMSC) Committee ahead of the Ekiti and Osun governorship elections. The committee, according to a statement issued on the commission online newspapers, was inaugurated by INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, on Monday in Abuja, to also plan for a successful 2019
READ MOREThe Media Rights Agenda (MRA) has named the National Library of Nigeria (NLN) this week’s inductee of the “Freedom of Information (FOI) Hall of Shame” for its failure to fully implement the FOI Act, 2011. MRA’s Programme Officer, Mr. Idowu Adewale, announced the induction in a statement in Lagos, saying “The National Library, whose vision
READ MOREThe International Press Centre (IPC), Lagos-Nigeria has strongly condemned the recent attack on Mr Saint Mienpamo, a blogger who was physically assaulted and abducted by suspected militants in Bayelsa, raising fresh worries about some concerted move to asphyxiate the freedom of speech in the country. According to Sahara Reporters, Mienpamo a former senior special assistant
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