Nigeria General Elections
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Here is a comprehensive walkthrough of the process of updating a PVC online in Nigeria.
Here’s a list of the mobile apps that allow you report any incident during the general elections today and next month.
By introducing the new features, Twitter wants to help Nigerians find election-related tweets with ease.
Nigeria’s most anticipated general elections kickoff on Saturday 16th of February 2019; less than 20 hours from press time. There have been allegations and serious concerns that the internet may be shut down during the election period on Saturday. Nigeria’s Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA) has officially denied these claims. Suggested Read; Why Nigeria’s…
Just before midnight on the 15th of February, barely 24 hours to Nigeria’s general elections, news broke of the suspension of at least 12 well-followed Nigerian Twitter users, popular referred to as influencers.
Nigeria does not have a law that protects its citizens online. With just two days to the presidential elections, Nigerians are exposed to the threat of digital rights violations.
As the general election approaches, telecom regulators, NCC suspend directives on Do Not Disturb code
A lot of recent attention has been on the 2019 general election. However, the unrest in not restricted to political arena, as tech companies in Nigeria are also feeling the heat.
Globally, 26 countries conduct elections with one form of electronic voting or the other with some even allowing internet ballots for general elections. In 2014, Namibia joined the list becoming the first African country to conduct an e-voting election. Nigeria has made moves too. In 2017, the National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI),…
It is mid-afternoon on the Friday before the local government elections in Kaduna State. Dr. (Mrs.) Saratu Binta Dikko-Audu, chairman of the Kaduna State Independent Electoral Commission (KAD-SIECOM), has been on her feet for the most part of the day moving from one end of the commission’s premises to the other. The compound itself is…
As the popular saying goes, uneasy lies the head that wears the crown, and as with previous democratic presidents of Nigeria, it’s definitely note going to be an exception for the incoming president, General Muhammadu Buhari. The president-elect will have more than social and traditional media to worry about, as the available media already got an…
This year marks the 5th General Elections to be conducted so far in the current democratic dispensation in Nigeria. None have generated as much buzz as the 2015 General Elections. One cannot but reflect on the role that technology and the internet played in the electioneering process. For the first time in the history of Nigeria, the…
“The people who cast the votes don’t decide an election, the people who count the votes do.” – Joseph Stalin I guess leader of the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s, Joseph Stalin was wrong on this. But he wasn’t even thinking about Nigeria in the context of the above quote though. Nigerians, at the recently conducted presidential…
The 2015 General Elections in Nigeria are just days away, and there’s much buzz around change and transformation. While the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is heading to the 2015 polls with card reader devices for accreditation, as a way of guarding against election malpractices, Enough is Enough (EiE) Nigeria also wants us to head to the…
Mark Essien’s online hotel booking platform, Hotels.ng is now offering a chance to win free hotel reservations to people who participate in the in the upcoming national elections. The startup is giving this incentive to encourage and improve participation in the coming polls. Participating in the competition is simple, post a selfie of you alone,…
In Omokri’s Case, Favs always win. President Goodluck Jonathan has improved (yes, improved) his social media team, by demoting the consistently controversial Reno Omokri, and appointing Obi Asika as his new senior special assistant on social media; better late than never, I guess. I think Mr. Omokri certainly did more harm than good to the…
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Most of the election flurry and debates and everyother thing has passed by me really quickly. Of course, I have seen the campaign posters, interviews, manifestos and the slurs that the candidates have thrown at each other. Perhaps the most salient campaign point of the APC against the PDP would be the security issue we…
We’ve all been caught up in the frenzy. A few days from now, the 2015 general elections will hold. Arguably, the most keenly contested presidential election in the history of Nigeria will be held on February 14, 2015. Different parties, politicians and activists have given several reasons why the outcome of these elections, the presidential…
The general elections are about 2 weeks away, not that I need to remind you, with the aggressive (but not so focused) campaigning from both sides, you’d need to be selectively deaf and/or blind to not be aware [Soludo’s epistles >_>]. With the elections so close, Google Nigeria recently held a workshop for Nigerian journalists…
The Presidential elections are drawing closer and we have seen the extreme lengths that both sides are going to, in order to win. In the spirit of everyone revealing their plans for Nigeria if they win, the All Progressives Congress (APC) is organising a live internet broadcast via Google Hangouts which will feature Professor Yemi…