98 days to #EkitiDecides2022
Dear Active Citizen, Elections will always be decided by votes! In 98 days, electorates in Ekiti State will be presented with an opportunity to decide their next governor. Ahead of #EkitiDecides2022, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has brought Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) to ward level (registration areas). The ward registrations which began on March […]
#IWD 2022: Before We Get Overtaken By Faux Platitudes
[By Chioma Agwuegbo] I woke up angry this morning; perhaps more tired than angry. No, not because we’re in the middle of the worst electricity situation we’ve experienced in a while, not because this is the fifth week of an utterly debilitating fuel scarcity; not even because the value of the naira continues to […]
CVR FAQs
DEMOCRACY IN RETREAT: A PETITION BY EXCLUDED NIGERIAN WOMEN
Dateline: (Abuja) 9th March,2022 BEING A TEXT OF A PRESS CONFERENCE DELIVERED AT THE NASS BY WOMEN GROUPS UNDER THE AGEIS OF WOMENIFESTO THE CONVENINING COALITION OF WOMEN GROUPS FOR #WOMENOCCUPYNASS #BreakThe PoliticalBias #BreakTheConstitutionalBias #BreakTheRepresentationImbalance #TheConstitutionNigerianWomenWant Gentlemen and Ladies of the Press, Today, women comprised of your mothers, wives, sisters, and daughters […]
No Woman! No Nation!
Dear Active Citizens, The Nigerian government at federal, state, and local levels has consistently demonstrated disdain for its citizens. The disregard for citizens showed up again last week when the male-dominated National Assembly, Nigeria’s Parliament, voted on constitutional amendments. They voted as follows: 1. Denied Nigerians in the diaspora the right to vote. This is despite […]
GENDER BILLS – WOMEN WILL CONTINUE TO OCCUPY NASS
Dateline: (Abuja) 6th March,2022 #BreakThePoliticalBias #BreakTheConstitutionBias Nigeria has a woeful women representation in political and elective positions. At the National Assembly (comprising the Senate with 109 members and the House of Representatives with 360 members totaling 469 members of parliament), only 29 are women (six per cent of the total). There are, however, […]
While We Wait For The 2023 Elections
[By Rachael Eni] On the 19th of November, 2021, the National Assembly forwarded the Electoral Amendment Bill to President Muhammadu Buhari. What would eventually follow was a drama so unnecessary that it left me bewildered. Rather than assent or decline the Bill, the President chose instead to jet out of the country, spurring calls […]
Enough of the Harassment of SERAP and Other NGOs!
March 3, 2022 Last month, Mr. Lai Mohammed, Nigeria’s Minister of Information and Culture, in his usual manner, made the unfounded and false statement that some Nigerian NGOs “are working to destabilise Nigeria” – and went on to attack NGOs that had exercised their constitutional right to challenge the Nigerian government in a court […]
WOMEN’S STATEMENT ON THE REJECTION OF GENDER BILLS BY NASS
Dateline: (Abuja) 1 March 2022 #BreakThePoliticalBias #BreakTheConstitutionBias Nigeria women are disappointed and aggrieved at the actions of the 9th National Assembly (NASS) today Tuesday March 1, 2022 when they denied women the opportunity of inclusion and representation in governance by voting against the gender bills. The NASS has spoken loud and clear that they […]
Release of the Timetable and Schedule of Activities for the 2023 General Election Held at the Conference Room, INEC Headquarters, Abuja, on Saturday 26th February 2022
Ladies and Gentlemen of the Press As you are aware, yesterday, Friday 25th February 2022, the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria signed the Electoral Bill 2022 into law. This is historic being the fourth time since the restoration of democracy in Nigeria in May 1999 that the Electoral Act was repealed and re-enacted. […]