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The INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner in Plateau state, Dr. Godwin Kwanga, said on Saturday that there will be no election in 14 polling units in the state because the names of the voters there “did not reflect on the register”. “We don’t have any registers to take there,” Kwanga said in an interview with our […]

The Independent National Electoral Commission has extended voting during the Presidential and National Elections to Sunday in problem areas It directed all Resident Electoral Commissioners in the country to conduct election on Sunday in areas where there were hitches. It said it has also relocated all the contents on its website to another site following […]

News reaching ViewPointNigeria indicates that Governor Jang has just casted his vote at his Ladura-Du polling unit in Du District of Jos South. Jang was able to vote this afternoon, following the initial hitches in the morning, where his PVC could not be read by the card machine. Immediately after exercising his […]

On the home front, voter registration and accreditation challenges continue. In Governor Jang’s ward of Ladura-Du, the governor and his wife’s PVCs were said to be unrecognisable by the card reading machine. As a result, the governor was said to have filled out an incident report sheet -pictures attached. At the […]

The election process appears to be showing a lot of challenges -as several high profile Nigerian were said to be unable to vote. In Otueke , the President’s PVC was said to have been rejected by the card reading machine. The same was the fate of his wife – Dame […]

Quick audit of the voters registration exercise this morning by The Transition Monitoring Group , suggests that as at 11:30am – approx. 68% of polling units across the country had opened and commenced relevant processes. Higher proportions of turn-out were observed in Northern parts of the country, compared to the South. For instance – the […]

The website of the Independent National Electoral Commission has been hacked. The website is hacked by a group that parade itself as Nigerian Cyber Army. The hacking was confirmed by INEC on its Twitter handle, @inecnigeria“We are aware of the recent hack of our @inecnigeria website, we are currently investigating this incident#NigeriaDecides” count | 80

Hitches being reported across Plateau – with several card readers said to have malfunctioned in Langtang, Jos South and Pankshin local government areas. Voters accreditation in these areas is currently on a stand still as resolutions are currently being south.  In a separate development, President Goodluck Jonathan has just been acredited at his polling unit […]

Voting has began in several polling units across Nigeria -reports reaching us from South West states indicates that things are progressing well with little issues. There are instances of card readers not working, but generally, things appear to be going on quite well. In the South East, Middlebelt and North Wests a similar story is […]