Benin’s Finance Minister Romuald Wadagni secured a landslide victory in the West African nation’s April 12 presidential election, garnering over 94% of the votes, provisional results from the electoral commission showed on Monday. Sacca Lafia, head of the country’s independent electoral commission, announced on national television that the result was based on more than 90% […]
The Supreme Court has ordered the Electoral Commission to suspend all arrangements for the rerun of the parliamentary election in Kpandai pending the determination of an application changing the High Court’s judgement that ordered the rerun. In an order this morning, a five-member panel of the Supreme Court, which had Justice Gabriel Pwamang presiding, said […]
The UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has announced a July 4 general election in a statement outside Downing Street. After discussing the Covid pandemic, the furlough scheme, and the war in Ukraine, he said the question is “who do you trust?” Sunak said he’s proud of what his government has achieved, including on NHS spending […]
The Electoral Commission (EC) will receive nominations of candidates for this year’s presidential and parliamentary elections from September 9 to 13 in a major countdown to the climax of the political season. This will be followed by the balloting for positions on the presidential ballot paper on September 23, 2024, and the parliamentary balloting on […]
After receiving the results of 14 states, the INEC Chairman and Returning Officer for the presidential election, Mahmood Yakubu, said Monday evening that the collation of results continues today by 10 GMT. Mr Yakubu received the Results of Ekiti on Sunday. On Monday, he received the results of Kwara, Osun, Ondo, Ogun, Oyo, Yobe, Enugu, […]
