Ahead of the governorship and House of Assembly polls on Saturday, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has deployed its teams of personnel across the states in the country to monitor the elections. A press statement on Friday signed by the Spokesperson of the Commission, Wilson Uwujaren, stated that, the teams led by senior officers began arriving at their assigned locations earlier Friday, March 17, with a number of them holding consultations with other...

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...