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Local Nigerian election sparks constitutional debate over Electoral Agency’s decision
The first Osun State governorship election took place on the 22nd of September 2018. Based on the results collated by the Returning Officer, Senator Ademola Adeleke of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) garnered 254,698 votes, while Alhaji Gboyega Oyetola of the All Progressives Congress (APC) won 254, 345 votes. The margin between the two leading […]
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Understanding the trend of buying votes in Nigeria
“Extreme poverty anywhere is a threat to human security everywhere.” – Kofi Annan Any reward given to a person for voting in a particular way or for not voting can be called vote buying and this is a widely known corrupt election practice. The practice of vote buying is banned in United States as well as several other countries as it is a threat […]
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Cameroon Crisis: Will elections hold in the Anglophone region?
A Country Divided Since 2016, the English-speaking minority of Cameroon have faced different acts of violence which has left more than a hundred people dead and about 200,000 displaced. Amid rising concerns for election safety and in spite of mounting bloodshed in the central African country’s Anglophone region, government officials have insisted they will go ahead with […]
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Will Nigeria Improve Female Representation in its 2019 Elections?
Since the return to democratic rule in 1999, Nigerian women have tried to break into the political scene within the country by contesting for elective positions at various levels. Unfortunately, women are yet to occupy up to 15% of elective positions in a country where the voting population of both men and women are almost […]
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Does Nigeria’s National Assembly Have Legal Powers to Alter the Sequence of the Elections?
The recent move by Nigeria’s National Assembly (NASS) to alter the sequence of elections has stirred a major legal controversy in the country. NASS passed a 2018 Electoral Amendment Bill which has received stiff opposition from the country’s electoral body, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the executive arm of the government. President Muhammadu […]
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Was Agora’s Blockchain Technology Deployed In Sierra Leone’s Election? Here’s What We Know.
Ordinarily much of the world does not know enough to care about the recently concluded Sierra Leone March 7, election. Not until the small country made ‘history’, with claims that it had become the first to deploy a block chain based voting solution. At the center of this is a Swiss based company named Agora, […]