As part of preparations towards the July 14, 2018 governorship election in Ekiti State, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) stepped down the ongoing Nationwide Continuous Voters Registration (CVR) exercise to the 177 ward registration centers in the State.This is geared towards ensuring that as many citizen that are eligible, are given the opportunity to...
Display claims and objections took place across INEC offices in the 774 LGAs and registration centres nationwide, from March 29 to March 31, 2018. According to Section 19 of the Electoral Act 2010 (As amended 2015), the Independent National Electoral Commission is mandated to [by notice, appoint a period not less than 5 days and...
In continuation of its efforts to deepen citizen participation ahead of the 2019 general elections, YIAGA AFRICA deployed citizen observers across the 36 states and the FCT since the commencement of the continuous voters registration exercise on Thursday, April 27, 2017. The Continuous Voters Registration Exercise (CVR) as conducted by the Independent National Electoral Commission...
YIAGA Africa’s WatchingTheVote Trained on Open Election Data INEC must meet Increased Registration Demand by Citizens – YIAGA AFRICA How Politicians Pose Threat to Nigeria’s Electoral Democracy Over 350 people Turn out for the WatchingTheVote Election Dialogue Series Download WatchingTheVote February 2018 Newsletter here
Introduction Ladies and Gentlemen, it gives us great pleasure to welcome you to the Youth Initiative for Advocacy, Growth & Advancement (YIAGA) WatchingTheVote (WTV) Preliminary Statement on the Process of the 2017 governorship election in Anambra. This press briefing is the third in series hosted by YIAGA WTV for the 2017 Anambra governorship election. This...
Mid-Day Situational Statement on the 2017 Anambra Gubernatorial Election Issued Saturday November 18, 2017 Summary The Youth Initiative for Advocacy, Growth & Advancement (YIAGA) Watching The Vote is observing the 2017 Anambra governorship election in Anambra state. YIAGA WTV deployed 500 carefully trained stationary observers and 29 mobile observers in all the 21 Local Government...
#WatchingTheVote is a citizen led election observation initiative aimed at enhancing the integrity of elections in Nigeria using technological tools like sms and evidence-based research methodology tools for election observation.