ELECTIONS
In 2018, a Court of Appeal sitting in Benin affirmed a 2014 judgment of a Federal High Court which gave prisoners the right to vote in Nigeria’s elections. The court of appeal further directed the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to include all...
Some users on social media have expressed displeasure with INEC’s online registration portal, attributing the problem to some other areas that may be harmful to the country’s elections.
In 2018, Kaduna State became the first state in Nigeria to conduct an election using an electronic voting system. It also made Nigeria the second in Africa to achieve the feat. Come September 4th 2021, Kaduna State Governor, Malam Nasir El-Rufai, has geared up to deploy the same technology with an updated software to conduct the local government elections. Here are nine things you need to know about electronic voting and how it works.