Lagos: ADC welcomes new members in Amuwo Odofin as party prepares for 2027 general elections - ITREALMS

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The African Democratic Congress (ADC), Amuwo Odofin Local Government Area chapter, in Lagos State, recently held a proclamation and affirmation ceremony for new coalition partners who have joined the party, reports ITREALMS.

The event, which took place on Saturday, August 23, 2025, at White Field High School in Mazamaza, Lagos, was part of the party's preparations for the 2027 general elections.

African elections under rising threat from online disinformation - ITREALMS

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In an unprecedented year for elections in Africa, the increasing use of digital disinformation poses a rising threat to democracy across the continent, researchers warn today.

New evidence shows that politicians have been undertaking increasingly sophisticated digital disinformation campaigns. Designed to intentionally disseminate false information on platforms such as Facebook and X, the campaigns are increasingly using tactics such as trolls, cyborgs and bots to disrupt debate and drown-out dissent.

Elections are over: Gov. Obaseki, show statemanship - ITREALMS

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The statement credited to Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, which was used as the lead front page story in Thisday Newspaper of today (Thursday, August 24, 2023) did not come to anyone as a surprise. However, it is essential to clarify certain narratives for a more informed public discourse.

Governor Obaseki has, in recent times, shifted focus to the nation's economic challenges as cannon fodder to divert attention from his poor performance at the state level since his move to the Peoples Democratic Party. While it is common for leaders to have divergent views, it's crucial to align criticism with reality, and to premise discourse on tangible results.

Owhoko: Four biggest losers of 2023 Nigerian general elections - ITREALMS

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Real losers of 2023 Nigerian general elections are not the electorate who were deprived of their rights to freely choose candidates of their choice nor the first-timer youth who were disappointed by the Nigerian state nor the candidates who lost or won as declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

The biggest losers are President Muhammadu Buhari, INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, President-elect, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Nigeria as a political entity. Except for Bola Tinubu who carries the burden of legitimacy arising from flawed process and total miniature votes garnered, the others will live with scar and collective guilt slammed on the country by ethical deficit in delivery process of the elections.

With general disenchantment over the conduct of the 2023 Nigerian general elections by over 145,000 national and foreign observers deployed across the country, INEC failed to leave a split opinion on its capacity to conduct a free, fair and credible elections, a development that will hunt Mahood Yakubu, Mohammed Buhari and Nigeria for a long time to come. The exercise was not only a horrendous phenomenon on the psyche of Nigerians but a fleeting nightmare.

Nigeria records 3.8m cyber attacks over governorship elections - ITREALMS

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Nigeria has recorded a total of 3,834,244 attacks originating from both within and outside the country during the governorship and state assembly elections at the weekend, reports ITREALMS.

The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Ali Pantami, gave the break down as that on Friday 17th March, 2023 recorded 1,046,896; Saturday 18th March, 2023 had 1,481,847; Sunday 19th March, 2023 witnessed 327,718 and Monday 20th March, 2023 saw to 977,783.

Tech leaders unveil non-partisan live-result viewing platform for gubernatorial elections - ITREALMS

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Two Nigerian technology executives, Messrs Oo Nwoye, and Ozo Omosigho have launched Collate, an open and crowdsourced online result collation and viewing platform (ReV) built to aid transparency in the coming gubernatorial elections in Nigeria, reports ITREALMS.

In the wake of the controversies that marked the result of Nigeria’s last presidential election, Collate aims to have a robust, documented and centralized data of all polling unit results in all states in real time. To achieve this, at least one electorate from all 176,846 polling units across the federation is required to pre-register on the platform before Saturday and upload election results at their polling unit in real time.

Confirmed! INEC postpones governorship, state assembly elections by a week, to March 18 - ITREALMS

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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has postponed the Saturday’s governorship and State Assembly elections to March 18, 2023, ITREALMS reports.

This development is coming barely three days before the March 11 date as earlier slated for the state elections.

Elections: NPSA tasks INEC on deployment of effective technological devices - ITREALMS

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The Nigerian Political Science Association (NPSA) has tasked the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to ensure the deployment and use of technological devices that are well-tested, protected from hacking, and replace malfunctioning for effective functioning during the 2023 General elections, reports ITREALMS.

The association also asked INEC to ensure seamless operational and logistics arrangements to prevent delays in the opening and closing of the accreditation and voting process, and the counting, collation, and transmission of results.

2023: Paradigm Initiative hosts Digital Rights and Elections in Africa Meetings - ITREALMS

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Leading Pan-African organization, Paradigm Initiative (PIN), has launched a project that will see the institution collaborate with elections stakeholders across the continent to proactively sensitize citizens on digital rights ahead of general elections, reports ITREALMS.

The move comes just 17 days ahead of the Nigerian election poll, which will take place on Saturday, 25th February 2023.

Alliance4DD to track planning, conduct of 2023 Elections - ITREALMS

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The Alliance for Deepening Democracy (A4DD), a coalition of organizations from various sectors working collaboratively to engage critical aspects, stages and actors in the 2023 general elections in order to ensure that its outcome reflects the will of the people and contributes to the consolidation of democracy in Nigeria.

In a statement issued by the Chair of its Steering Committee, Mr. Edetaen Ojo, who is Executive Director of Media Rights Agenda; and its Vice Chair, Ms Hadiza Mrumun Garba, Communication Officer for the Women in Politics Forum, the Alliance said it intends to complement the work and activities of other coalitions and organizations engaging the electoral process and that its main focus would be to ensure that the 2023 elections are transparent, properly organized and conducted, secure, and credible, unlike the situation with many elections in the past.

IPOB expresses support for 2023 elections, berates PANPIEC - ITREALMS

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The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) on Thursday have expressed support for the 2023 general elections in Nigeria, saying will not issue any sit-at-home order during the February poll.

The group then issued a warning to the Pan Nigeria President of Igbo Extraction Coalition (PANPIEC) to desist from linking IPOB with the enforcement of sit-at-home orders to blackmail IPOB and ESN.

ECOWAS on 2023 elections: Nigeria must conduct peaceful exercise - ITREALMS

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The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Commission has warned that Nigeria cannot afford not to conduct peaceful and credible elections in 2023 as a lot is at stake even within the sub-region should the country fail.

This is even as the Independent National Electoral Commission, hailed the Commission over its dialogue with leaders of political parties towards peaceful 2023 general elections, describing it as very commendable.

INEC takes last BVAS delivery for 2023 elections- ITREALMS

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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has taken delivery of the last consignment of the BiModal Votor Accreditation System (BVAS) reports ITREALMS.


The National Commissioner & Chairman, INEC, Festus Okoye Esq, confirmed this to ITREALMS on Wednesday.

This, he said was in furtherance of the preparations for the 2023 General Election, the Commission, on Tuesday, 3rd January 2023, received the last consignment of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation (BVAS) machines with 52 days to the election.

ECOWAS engages Nigeria's political actors ahead of the 2023 elections - ITREALMS

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The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Commission is set to hold a series of training and interactive workshops on dialogue and mediation as tools for preventing and mitigating election-related disputes and violence for political actors and stakeholders in Nigeria.

The workshop, the Commission said is part of its strategic and operational support for the country’s peaceful 2023 General Election.

The workshop series, according to the statement made available to the media on Saturday by the Program Officer, Mediation Directorate of Political Affairs, ECOWAS Commission, Mr. Brown Odigie, is billed to hold in some selected states across the six geo-political zones of the country. It targets the leadership of the Inter-Party Advisory Council (IPAC) among others and is aimed at strengthening their capacity to prevent and mitigate potential pre- and post-election-related disputes and violence, to ensure peaceful electoral outcomes.

It is also a follow-up to the ECOWAS’ October 23rd-November 12th, 2022 Pre-election Fact-Finding Mission to Nigeria which among others, assessed the level of preparation by relevant stakeholders for the forthcoming general elections while mapping out areas of potential support by ECOWAS.

The Commission explained that the program is being held against the backdrop that electoral contestations have become a major source of conflicts in West Africa, with the potential for violence, triggered or heightened by the high premium on political power and incendiary rhetoric in political discourse.

It is expected that this series of training and interactive workshops will also create opportunities for stakeholders to understand better, the ECOWAS normative principles and frameworks for democracy and good governance, sustain and enhance ECOWAS’ strategic engagement with the political process in Nigeria as well as its commitment and determination to promote dialogue and mediation in resolving electoral disputes and conflicts.

It would be recalled that similar workshops were organized in the lead-up to the 2019 general elections in Nigeria and around the electoral processes of several other Member States.

The training and interactive workshops are being supported with funding from the Government of the Kingdom of Denmark under the Danish Africa Programme for Peace.

The workshop is being organized by the Directorate of Political Affairs (DPA), Department of Political Affairs, Peace and Security of the Commission, and will commence a series on the 22nd of November 2022 in Lagos, Nigeria.

Danbatta: Credible journalism can influence credible elections - ITREALMS

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Less than four months into 2023 general elections, the Executive Vice Chairman (EVC) of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof. Umar Danbatta, has said declared that the media holds the ace in making a difference in promoting credible elections in Nigeria, reports ITREALMS.

Danbatta told the gathering of the cream of Nigerian editors at the 18th All-Nigeria Editors Conference, organised by the Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE) at the Concord Hotels in Owerri, Imo State, with the Governor of Imo State, Senator Hope Uzodinma in attendance, reiterated the importance of the roles of the media and journalists specifically, before, during and after the 2023 elections.

Elections completed @ ITU Council, Radio Regulations Board - ITREALMS

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​​​​Member States of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) have voted on the composition of the next ITU Council and the members of the Radio Regulations Board for the coming four years, reports ITREALMS.

The voting started Monday morning at the ITU Plenipotentiary Conference (PP-22) in Bucharest, Romania.

GOCOP's confab gets October 6 date in Lagos, to discuss 2023 elections - ITREALMS

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The 2022 conference of the Guild of Corporate Online Publishers (GOCOP) will hold in Lagos on Thursday, October 6 at Sheraton Hotel, Ikeja.

The theme for the conference is “2023 Elections: Managing the Process for Credible Outcome” and it will feature prominent stakeholders in the polity, civil society organisations, security, judiciary, media, among others.

Exclusive! 2023 Presidential Elections: Labour Party to leverage crypto for funding – ITREALMS

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The leadership of the Labour Party of Nigeria (LPN) may have advanced consideration to deploy cryptocurrency for the 2023 general elections to meet its increasing financial demands of funding election, reports ITREALMS.

A cryptocurrency, crypto-currency, crypto, or coin is a digital currency designed to work as a medium of exchange through a computer network that is not reliant on any central authority, such as a government or bank, to uphold or maintain it according to Wikipedia.

Minister inaugurates NBC board, urges stronger regulation ahead 2023 elections - ITREALMS

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The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has inaugurated the Governing Board of the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), with a call on the commission to scale up regulations ahead of the 2023 general elections.

“Please note that as we move closer to the 2023 general elections, the NBC will come under increasing pressure to step up its regulatory role to prevent a repeat of what transpired before, during and after the 2019 general elections, when some broadcast stations threw caution to the wind and engaged in inciting, incendiary and unprofessional broadcasts.

LG/LCDA Elections: Lagos restricts movement - ITREALMS

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The Lagos State Government has announced restriction of movement across the state between the hours of 8a.m and 3p.m on Saturday, 24th July, 2021, due to the local government elections, reports ITREALMS.

Honourable Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr. Gbenga Omotoso, confirmed this to ITREALMS in a press statement on Thursday.

He said that the restriction is to enable the Lagos State Independent Electoral Commission (LASIEC) conduct hitch-free elections into positions of Chairmen and Councillors in all the 57 Local Governments and Local Council Development Areas.

"The restriction will facilitate the ease of movement of the electorate, election materials and LASIEC officials for the sanctity of the election, effective monitoring and enhanced security," he said.

Omotoso also urged all eligible voters to participate in the elections, which require the cooperation of all residents.

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