Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said voting would no longer take place in religious places of worship across the country. During a meeting with Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs) on Wednesday, June 16, 2021, Mahmood Yakubu, INEC chairman, said the move was part of efforts to create more polling units ahead of the […]
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About 27 per cent of all the attacks suffered by offices of Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) since the 2019 general elections were carried out by “unknown gunmen and hoodlums,” the commission has revealed. In a statistical report shared on Thursday, INEC stated that its facilities have been attacked a total of 41 times […]
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A wave of attacks on Nigeria’s electoral commission offices in southeast Nigeria is raising concerns about preparations for upcoming electoral events, particularly the 2023 general elections. In May alone, at least five offices of Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) were torched in a series of ramped-up attacks that were reminiscent of the election-related violence […]
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Two offices of Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Ebonyi State, Southeast Nigeria, were burnt on Tuesday, May 18, following late-night attacks on the facilities by arsonists. In the attacks on its offices in Ezza North Local Government Area of the state, INEC, on Wednesday, May 19, said no casualty was recorded. Footage of […]
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The Enugu state, Southeast Nigeria office of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Sunday night, May 16, came under attack by an armed group who set six vehicles ablaze after they overpowered the security operatives attached to the office. Festus Okoye, INEC Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, in a Channels Television report, said the […]
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