BENIN presidential election favourite Romuald Wadagni swept to victory in the country’s polls, securing 94 percent of votes, according to…
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SENATE President Godswill Akpabio has expressed optimism that Nigeria’s worsening insecurity will subside shortly after the forthcoming elections, attributing the…
WITH growing fears that the militant Islamist insurgency that has engulfed large parts of West Africa is spreading, security has…
AS preparations gradually intensify for Nigeria’s 2027 general elections, the Federal Government has proposed a substantial sum of N135.22 billion…
IN a decisive step towards strengthening Nigeria’s electoral integrity ahead of the 2027 General Election, the Independent National Electoral Commission…
THE campaign for next month’s presidential election in Congo-Brazzaville begins on Saturday, with 82-year-old President Denis Sassou Nguesso seemingly assured…
LAST weekend, the Federal Capital Territory area council elections held and for the first time in recent memory, all eyes…
THE House of Representatives was in a rowdy session on Tuesday as lawmakers disagreed over a motion seeking to rescind…
THE Senate has defended its decision to make the electronic transmission of election results discretionary rather than mandatory in the…
NIGERIANS love a good buzzword. We grab onto one, hold it tight, and convince ourselves that once we crack that…
NIGERIAN elections never end. But the cycle gets into overdrive roughly one year before a fresh general election. This is…
A DEMOCRACY rarely collapses in a single dramatic moment. More often, it is slowly redesigned clause by clause until citizens…
OUR habit of amending our electoral laws almost every election cycle deserves serious scrutiny. The popular justification, continuous improvement, sounds…
MILITARY authorities in coup-prone Guinea-Bissau have scheduled presidential and legislative elections for 6 December, despite calls for a swifter transition…
UGANDA said Sunday it would maintain a ban on social media platforms, while lifting a nationwide internet block hours after…
UGANDAN opposition leader Bobi Wine said Saturday that he had escaped a police raid on his home and was in…
UGANDAN President Yoweri Museveni won a seventh term in office on Saturday after an election marred by violence and an…
UGANDAN opposition leader Bobi Wine was forcibly taken away in an army helicopter from his home on Friday, his party…
VOTES are being counted in parts of Uganda amid an internet shutdown and opposition accusations of rigging in presidential and…
UGANDA’s opposition leader told AFP on Wednesday that he would call for protests if President Yoweri Museveni rigs this week’s…