To a very large extent, elections and electoral practices shape the fate of the modern nation state. The reason for this is not difficult to establish. Elections provide the medium, by which the different interest groups within the modern nation state can stake and resolve theirF Iyayi...
Description This app contains the complete text of the Nigerian Electoral Act passed in 2022. The Act is a federal legislation that outlines the procedure for conduct of elections in Nigeria. It contains simplified explanations for every section of the law, relevant court decisions that interpret th...
Knowledge, strategies, trends and practices in political marketing in South-West Nigeria (1999-2015) Nigerias current democratic dispensation which started in 1999 entered its sixteenth year with the general elections held between March 28 and April 11, 2015. This suggests that democracy is gradually...
The advocacy workshop will be an interactive sensitisation focused on empowering young people on electoral best practices and further driving restructuring and reforms of electoral systems in Nigeria. Themed “Better Elections, Deepened Democracy”, the workshop is organised in par...
The Electoral Best Practices and Peace Building Strategy Towards Elections In NigeriaIroye Samuel Opeyemi
Nigeria is looked upon by many both in Africa and outside to give leadership in the best democratic practices. Unfortunately, since its independence in 1960, its electoral process has been marred by violence, the most extreme of which, until 2007, was the violence in the Western Region in ...
This article centers on psychologically based mechanisms of change as tools for sustaining and extending positive and progressive change in Nigeria's electoral process. Over the years, corrupt practices in Nigeria's electoral process have lead to world-condemned suffering among the masses; some ...
Since the dawn of the fourth republic, Nigeria has successfully organized six general elections with each of them raising issues of diverse concerns in relation to international best democratic practices. These contending issues have typically consisted of disputations concerning the credibility of the ...
The Paper investigated negative activities towards Electoral Process in Nigeria and the needs for Education especially negative attitude of populace, activities of the mass media and use of electoral materials. This Paper adopted descriptive survey design which allowed the researchers to have vivid ...
O. A. Ayodele engaged in the assessment of the legal framework put in place to curb electoral violence in Nigeria. He argued that elections are the modern and acceptable means of changing governments all over the world as they bestow legitimacy on governments. People are governed through their...