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The Business Of Vote-Buying In Nigeria
In this month’s review, we dive into the seemingly lucrative business of vote-buying during elections in Nigeria. Read the full review, here: Need more insight into Nigeria’s election processes? Read the January review.
Conrad Omodiagbe
US: Supreme Court Makes Its Decision
Months after its November polls, the US Supreme Court has officially rejected a handful of cases related to the 2020 election, including disputes from Pennsylvania that had deeply divided the justices just before the election. The cases the justices rejected involved election challenges filed by former President Donald Trump and his allies in five states […]
Farida Adamu
Nigeria: 3 Postulations Ahead of 2023
It’s more than 700 days to the 2023 general elections but the conversation on who Nigeria’s next president will be, has inundated the current political discourse. The country’s middle class is now more politically active and the regular culprits may be running for office again. How will things look in the next few months, here […]
Farida Adamu
The Electoral Amendment: A Decade in Deliberations.
The Electoral Act (Amendment Bill), a proposal aimed at making changes to existing electoral laws in Nigeria has been a rallying cause for civil society in Nigeria for a decade. The Electoral Act was first passed in 2010 to replace the 2006 Electoral Act is now set to be repealed. Find out what we know: […]
Farida Adamu
Five Protests that Shaped Civil Resistance in 2020
Civil resistance became the most prominent theme across countries globally as lockdown restrictions were being relaxed. However, protests held in countries like Israel even in the heat of lockdowns. More than ever, young people around the world are calling for an end to old and discriminatory systems, and the end of the one-man rule. Here are some peculiar protests […]
Farida Adamu
Is Electronic Voting a Security Nightmare?
In April, we looked at the steps INEC was taking to make manual voting a thing of the past, how voting is done and what Nigeria can gain from having an e-voting system. The popular perception about biometric voting and other forms of electronic voting are those of confidence in the ability of technology to […]
Farida Adamu
Last Lap: African Elections To Watch As 2020 Ends
No fewer than 13 African elections were scheduled to hold on the continent in 2020. Many were postponed, including the presidential elections in Ethiopia, which was moved by a year and has sparked tensions in the Horn of Africa. Somalia, which should have held one-man-one-vote elections for the first time in history did not only take back the decision […]