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Is the Nigerian government registering inmates for the upcoming election?

Lami Sadiq · 107 views · Sep 26, 2021

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...

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Nine things you need to know about Kaduna’s electronic voting system deployed for LG elections

Lami Sadiq · 114 views · Aug 29, 2021

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.