The Senate has failed to enshrine real-time, mandatory electronic transmission of election results into Nigeria’s electoral law.

The Senate re-amended the Electoral Act to accommodate the electronic transmission of results. However, the provision comes ...

The Senate on Tuesday made a U-turn by rescinding its earlier decision rejecting real-time electronic transmission of election results from polling units to the Independent National Electoral ...

By September 2025, the senate and house of representatives committees on electoral matters opted to retain the positive ...

Ezekwesili accused the Senate leadership of attempting to manipulate future elections, warning, “The Senate President and his collaborators are brazenly giving Nigerians a heads-up that our votes will ...

Former Senate Minority Leader, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, has expressed concern over what he described as confusion and lack ...

The emergency plenary session became rowdy commotion shortly after the Senate Chief Whip, Tahir Monguno, moved a motion seeking to rescind the Senate’s previous resolution and amend the Electoral Act ...

According to the source, the clause passed by lawmakers on Wednesday, February 4, 2026, explicitly required presiding ...

Senate will hold an emergency plenary session to revisit the Electoral Act amendment following protests led by Peter Obi and mounting pressure from CSOs.

A chieftain of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Kenneth Okonkwo, has urged the Senate to completely remove any clause allowing manual transmission of results in the Electoral Act, insisting that ...