Election Security
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Nigeria’s Electoral Body Suspends Voter Registration As Terrorists Disrupt Process In Southeast State
Nigeria’s electoral body, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has suspended the Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) exercise in a local…
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Politicians Using Thugs To Frustrate Gubernatorial Poll In Southwest Nigeria State
Thugs, suspected to be members of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), on Monday, July 11, attacked the…
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Terrorists Attack INEC Office In Southeast Nigeria
Burnt INEC office at Enugu State. Photo: INEC/Twitter The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says terrorists destroyed 748 ballot Boxes…
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How Hate Speeches By Politicians, Others Lead To Election Violence In Nigeria
In Aug. 2020, just as the South-South state of Edo state was gearing for its gubernatorial elections, Joseph Ihama, a…
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Jihadists Trying To Disrupt 2023 Elections In Nigeria’s Northwest
Birnin Gwari Local Government Area (LGA) of Kaduna State, Northwest Nigeria, faces multiple threats. One of them is an Al-Qaeda-linked…
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Misinformation May Aggravate Tension As General Elections Approach In Nigeria
There was outrage on Nigerian social media on Thursday, June 23, after a video went viral. The person who recorded…
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Nigeria’s Deadly History Of Electoral Violence In Five Charts
Nearly all of Nigeria’s general elections since independence have been tainted with the brush strokes of violence. The outrage that…
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The Role Of Insecurity, Militarisation In Fostering Voter Apathy
Nigeria’s elections have been characterised by voter apathy since the return of democracy in 1999. A small percentage of the…
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Thuggery Hurting Political Activities Ahead Of Nigeria’s General Elections
On May 26, Sha’aban Ibrahim Sharada, a gubernatorial aspirant and outspoken critic of Kano state governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, went…
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Violence During Party Primaries And What It Means For Nigeria’s Next General Elections
Nigeria is preparing for its general elections, which happen every four years. But already, events suggest that they will likely…
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