We can Fix Nigeria!
Dear Active Citizen, Are you ready for the 2023 general elections? From next Monday, June 28th, you can register to vote! The Continuous Voters’ Registration (CVR) exercise has been made easy with an online platform to capture your data after which you are scheduled for biometric capture at an INEC office close to you. For citizens without access to […]
PRESS CONFERENCE BY THE CHAIRMAN, INDEPENDENT NATIONAL ELECTORAL COMMISSION (INEC), PROFESSOR MAHMOOD YAKUBU, ON THE LAUNCHING OF THE ONLINE REGISTRATION PORTAL FOR THE RESUMPTION OF THE CONTINUOUS VOTER REGISTRATION HELD AT THE CONFERENCE ROOM, INEC HEADQUARTERS, ABUJA, ON THURSDAY 24TH JUNE 2021
Ladies and Gentlemen of the Press 1. I am indeed very glad to address you today on the resumption of the Continuous Voter Registration (CVR). As you are aware, the Register of Voters is at the heart of democratic elections. A good register of voters is a precursor to a good election. For this reason, […]
Breathe! With Life, There’s Hope!
Dear friends, We take a break from all the happenings in our nation to share love and light with you. Remember, the journey to fixing Nigeria is a marathon and not a sprint. Catch a breath, rest and share this hope with someone!
Southeast Nigeria: When Silence Is No Longer Golden
[By Ike Chioke] Nigeria and Nigeria’s friends must speak out on the heightened spate of insecurity in the Southeast now before it is too late. What started as flickering candlelight is quickly snowballing into a huge forest fire. And if we do not act quickly, history will not be kind to all of us who […]
Happy Democracy Day!
Happy Democracy Day!
This Democracy: We Must Keep It On!
Dear Active Citizen, Tomorrow, June 12th is Democracy Day – or should we say, the irony of it! Democracy in name only, it would seem. Yesterday, during his appearance on Arise TV’s Morning Show, General Buhari told young Nigerians to “behave” so the country can be secure enough for foreign investment. He said this in the context of #EndSARS. […]
#JUNE12PROTEST: The Nigerian Government and its Security Services must play by the rules
Nigerians from across the country have widely publicised a peaceful #June12Protest to register their displeasure at the way the country has been governed. By this statement, the Civil Society Consortium on Civic Space wish to remind the Nigerian Government and its security services that every citizen has a constitutionally guaranteed right to protest. Making this known in a […]
STATEMENT ON SUBMISSION OF THE NAME OF MS. LAURETTA ONOCHIE TO THE NIGERIAN SENATE FOR CONFIRMATION AS INEC NATIONAL COMMISSIONER
Issued in Abuja: 11:00am, Thursday, 10th June 2021 The Nigeria Civil Society Situation Room again expresses concern with the nomination of Ms. Lauretta Onochie, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Social Media as National Commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) representing the South-South. Ms. Onochie is a political appointee and staff of incumbent […]
Case Number 04062021: Twitter vs. Nigeria
(From the blog: ‘My Nigerian Dream’) By: Ayobami Akinyode OLUNLOYO If this incredulous situation went to court, I guess the case name might sound something like the title of this piece. Ha! But guess what? Nigerian courts are currently on strike, so no chance of that. When we sit idly by, while our courts are […]
RELIGIOUS AND ETHNICITY THREATS TO THE NIGERIAN ENTITY
Every administration that has assumed political power in this country over the last four decades has failed fundamentally. Part of the failures stem from the malfunction to deliver good governance, which heralds the provision of basic social amenities to the public. Rather than fulfilling and delivering on election promises, they are busy amassing wealth (public […]