Two Nigerian tech experts have created an online platform for the collation and transmission of the results of the ongoing general election directly from polling units. The platform known as Collate Africa was created by Oo Nwoye, the founder and executive director of TechCircle and Ozo Omosigho. Nwoye, in an interview on ARISE TV yesterday, said Collate was designed to allow Nigerians independently and anonymously upload the election results from the 176,846 polling units across...

Though one of the most fundamental government bodies with the responsibility of protecting the people and maintaining peace and order, the image of the Nigeria Police Force has been maligned given its continued silence in the face of the ever-increasing tension ahead of the March 18 election. Less than 48 hours to the governorship and Houses of Assembly election, Musiliu Akinsanya, the Lagos State Parks Management Committee chairman also known as MC Oluomo, in a...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has concluded the re-configuration of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) machines used for the February 25 presidential and National Assembly elections. The commission has also begun the deployment of the BVAS machines to states on Wednesday ahead of Saturday’s governorship and states’ House of Assembly election. It is to be recalled that INEC had shifted the gubernatorial election by one week due to a delay in commencing the...

Senator Anyim Pius Anyim, former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, and chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has thrown his weight behind the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ebonyi State, Rt. Hon Francis Ogbonna Nwifuru, ahead of March 18 governorship and State House of Assembly elections. The former lawmaker, who is a member of the PDP Board of Trustee (BoT), who contested the 2023 presidential primary election of...

Atiku Abubakar, the Presidential Candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has said that Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has caused Governors Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State, Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State and Samuel Ortom of Benue State to commit political suicide. The former Vice President also accused Wike of deceiving the presidential candidate of Labour Party, Peter Obi, stressing that the former Governor of Anambra left the party due to the constant insults from...

Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and the party have clarified the reason motions were withdrawn from the court. According to Atiku, the clarification has become imperative following some mischievous reports in the media. Atiku, in a statement by Paul Ibe, the Media Adviser to Atiku noted that it has become pertinent to make some clarifications following insinuations and mischievous reporting of the withdrawal of the application for the Independent...

President Muhammadu Buhari sworn-in seven reappointed board members for the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other related offences (ICPC) for another four years. All the seven board members were first inaugurated by Buhari in 2019, with their renewed term of office, it will end in March 2027. The ceremony, which took place in the Council Chambers of the State House, Abuja, was conducted before the weekly Federal Executive Council (FEC) presided over by the President. The...