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The 10th National Assembly was inaugurated 13 June 2023. We have 360 seats for the House of Representatives and two of the 360 seats in the House of Representatives have yet to be finalized.The Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced that there will be a supplementary election to fill in the two seats remaining to complete the members of the Legislative House of Representative.
The Senate President David Mark, Speaker of the House of Representatives Oladimeji Bankole, and most of the state Governors also attended the meeting. Unanimous approval by the council of the nominee for this critical appointment avoided controversy about whether or not the President should appoint the chairman of the INEC. [ 21 ]
In Nigeria, Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) is a title given to a person in charge of the Independent National Electoral Commission at the state level. The Resident Electoral Commissioner, assisted by relevant government agencies, undertakes the Presidential, National Assembly, Gubernatorial and House of Assembly elections in a state.
The 360 members of the House of Representatives are elected from single-seat constituencies using first-past-the-post voting; when vacancies occur, by-elections (or bye-elections) are called, scheduled, and administered by the Independent National Electoral Commission. New elections are also called if the general election was annulled by a ...
This is a list of the standing committees of the National Assembly of Nigeria. There are currently 57 standing committees in the Nigerian Senate, while the House of Representatives currently has 89 standing committees.
The 2015 Nigerian House of Representatives elections in Lagos State was held on March 28, 2015, to elect members of the House of Representatives to represent Lagos State, Nigeria. [ 1 ] Overview
The next day Attahiru Jega, the head of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), said that "The commission weighed all the options and considered the wide-ranging counsel of Nigerians and decided to reschedule all the elections as follows: Saturday, April 9, senate and house of representatives elections; Saturday, April 16 ...
INEC Rivers State Branch Office is the branch of the Independent National Electoral Commission that organizes, undertakes and supervises elections to federal and state executive as well as legislative government offices in Rivers State. [1] It is led by a Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), currently Obo Effanga.