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CVR: Online Registration Remains Suspended, INEC Clarifies

June 22, 2022 5:30 am

Following several weeks of complaints about hitches experienced in the online registration of voters, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Tuesday announced that the portal has been shut.

In a briefing in Abuja before the Youth Vote Count Mega Music Concert recently, the Resident Electoral Commissioner of the Federal Capital Territory, Yahaya Bello, provided the clarification.

Bello questioned why Nigerians continue to flock to the commission’s website despite a warning from the commission last month that it will stop accepting online registrations on May 30.

He says that those who complained that online registration was no longer valid ought …

#OndoDecides2020: Yiaga Africa Trains, Deploys 646 Observers

October 4, 2020 2:57 pm

Yiaga Africa on Sunday said it has trained and would deploy a total of 646 observers for the 10 October gubernatorial election in Ondo state.

The Executive Director of the citizen-led movement, Samson Itodo, in a statement, disclosed that the training was held in 47 centres spread across all 18 LGAs in the state.

Beneficiaries of the training included 600 polling unit observers, 27 local government area observers and 18 collation center observers.

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‘The 18 Collation Centre observers will deploy to all 18 Local Government Area collation centres to observe, document and report

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Yiaga Africa Affirms INEC Result

September 21, 2020 8:45 am

Yiaga Africa has urged al the political parties, their candidates and all those who participated in the just concluded governorship election in Edo State, to have confidence the result announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

The group said this on Sunday evening at the post election press briefing, after the declaration of candidate of the PDP, Governor Godwin Obaseki, as winner of the election by INEC.

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A statement endorsed by Ezenwa Nwagwu and Dr. Aisha Abdullahi Co-Chairmen, Yiaga Africa WTV Working Group, explained that the …

Edo 2020: How We Will Check Credibility Of Results – Yiaga Africa

September 18, 2020 2:27 pm

In its determination to ensure credibility of Saturday’s governorship election in Edo state, Yiaga Africa, through the Watching The Vote citizens movement, said it would deploy its Parallel Vote Tabulation (PVT) methodology for the election.

According to Yiaga Africa, PVT is an advanced election observation methodology that employs well-established statistical principles and sophisticated information technologies in providing timely and accurate information on the conduct of accreditation, voting, and counting, and it independently verifies the official governorship results as announced by the INEC.