Ahead of off-cycle governorship elections in Nigeria’s Edo and Ondo states, the Abuja based Initiative for Research, Innovation and Advocacy in Development (IRIAD) and The Electoral Hub are... Read more
Implementing transparent mechanisms for direct funding to Local Government Areas (LGAs) so as to enhance local governance and development; strengthening the independence and capacity of Stat... Read more
By Chief Stephen Lawani President Bola Tinubu has, from a completely unexpected angle, offered something unifying of Nigerians. It is last Thursday’s Supreme Court ruling granting financial... Read more
The Supreme Court ruling on the financial autonomy for Local Government Councils will require an additional condition to make that tier of government functional and relevant. This is the vie... Read more
Can election personnel be so well trained (in character and learning) that they can stand up to any moves compromising of qualitative conduct of elections in Nigeria? This is the puzzle Dr.... Read more
It was another day of reflections on the life and times of Prof Abubakar Momoh, this time from the prism of perfecting elections in Nigeria through critical grooming of election personnel ah... Read more
By Adagbo ONOJA The first part of this report focused on the very scholarly but explosive dimension Prof Okey Ibeanu raised regarding the moving the assessment of the electoral management bo... Read more
Central to representative democracy is elections which, in turn, centralises an election management body. But what has been the name, composition and character or performance of the electora... Read more
BUKites (graduates of Bayero University, Kano) are insistent that the exceptional (food) insecurity being experienced in Nigeria is not a good enough reason not to celebrate one of theirs wh... Read more
It was a pleasant two-day house (hotel) arrest for the purpose of a collective peer review of a potentially explosive book project on electoral accountability in Nigeria on the one hand and... Read more
