The Senate on Tuesday reversed its earlier decision and approved the real-time electronic transmission of election results from polling units to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Results Viewing Portal (IReV), while retaining manual collation as a backup in the event technology fails. The upper chamber adopted the new position during an emergency plenary in Abuja after considering a motion moved by the Chief Whip, Senator Mohammed Monguno (APC, Borno North). The Minority Leader, Senator...

The Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal on Monday affirmed the decision of the Senate to suspend Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, ruling that the upper chamber acted within its constitutional and procedural powers. In a unanimous judgment delivered by a three-member panel in appeal number CA/ABJ/CV/1107/2025, the court held that the suspension of the Kogi Central lawmaker did not breach her parliamentary privileges or constitutional rights. The appeal was filed against the Clerk of the...

Heavy security has been deployed to maintain order around the National Assembly on Monday, including the Nigeria Police Force, the Nigerian Army, and the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, as Nigerians are currently converging in Abuja to protest the Senate’s rejection of e-transmission of election results. The protest, tagged ‘Occupy National Assembly’, had a prominent figure of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, Peter Obi. Speaking at the protest ground, Obi faulted the Senate’s position...