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The contentious provision of the 2022 Electoral Act known as section 84 (12) was the subject of a legal challenge...

Bakura, Bukkyum, Birinin Magaji, Shinkafi, Maradun, and Zurmi Local Government Areas of Zamfara State have been removed from consideration for...

Senator Ike Ekweremadu and his wife Beatrice have reportedly been detained and charged with taking a kid to the United Kingdom for organ harvesting....

On the 21st of June, 2022, soldiers from the 13th Brigade of the Nigerian Army, which was operating under the...

The Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) has threatened a statewide strike if the Kaduna State Government does not overturn its...

Recent church attacks in Owo, Ondo State, and the southern portion of Kaduna State were "planned and politically driven criminal...

According to the Nigeria Extractive Industries and Transparency Initiative (NEITI), the removal of fuel subsidies will release Nigeria from economic...

The ongoing continuous voter registration (CVR) effort was originally scheduled to come to a close at the end of June 2022, but the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has finally agreed to prolong it until further notice. The disclosure was made by the Honorable Aishatu Jibril Dukku, Chairman of the House of Representatives committee on Electoral...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) cannot cease voter registration on 30 June 2022, according to a federal high court in Abuja. Today, Honorable Justice Mobolaji Olajuwon (Court 10) issued an order of temporary injunction following the hearing of Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project's argument on motion exparte (SERAP). SERAP and 185 concerned Nigerians filed the lawsuit against INEC at the beginning of this month, asking the court to "declare unconstitutional, illegal, and incompatible with international standards the electoral body's refusal to extend the deadline for voter registration to allow eligible Nigerians to exercise their rights." In the lawsuit, SERAP asked the court for "an order restraining INEC, its agents, privies, assigns, and any other person(s) claiming through it from discontinuing the continuous voters' registration exercise from June 30, 2022 or any other date pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice." The hearing on the Motion on Notice for interlocutory injunction has been postponed until June 29, 2022. The lawsuit followed INEC's decision to extend the deadline for political party primaries by six days, from June 3 to June 9. However, the commission failed to prolong online pre-registration, which concluded on 30 May 2022, and Continuous Voter Registration (CVR), which ended on 30 June 2022. In suit number FHC/L/CS/1034/2022 filed at the Federal High Court in Lagos and transferred to Abuja, SERAP asks the court to determine "whether INEC's refusal to extend the deadline for voter registration violates the Nigerian Constitution, 1999 , the Electoral Act, and international standards." SERAP is requesting that the court declare that INEC's refusal to extend the deadline for voter registration violates the rights of eligible Nigerians to freely participate in their own government, equality, and equal protection. SERAP is also requesting "an order of mandamus to direct and compel INEC to extend voter registration by at least three months and to take effective measures to guarantee that eligible Nigerians can register to exercise their right to vote in the 2023 general elections." The complaint stated, in part, that enforcing an unrealistic deadline for voter registration while extending the time for party primaries would violate the constitutional and international human rights of eligible voters. "INEC responsibilities must be carried out in a fair, just, and nondiscriminatory way. The expansion of voter registration would guarantee that all Nigerian voters are treated fairly and equally. The future of democracy in Nigeria hinges on it." "Voters are also essential participants in the electoral process. A fair treatment of all eligible Nigerian voters will promote the people's right to vote and participate in their own governance. "INEC must not only be independent and impartial in the exercise of its constitutional and legislative obligations, but also be perceived as such. "Extending voter registration would also increase voter confidence in the voting process. "The right to vote is one of the most precious rights of the people. The commission has a constitutional and statutory obligation to ensure that all eligible voters effectively exercise their right to participate in their own governance."...

At least three attendees were feared to have been slain when terrorists stormed a Catholic church in Kaduna State's Kajuru...