{"id":196150,"date":"2026-02-25T10:00:02","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T09:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/e-transmission-all-polling-units-in-nigeria-online"},"modified":"2026-02-25T11:08:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T10:08:15","slug":"e-transmission-all-polling-units-in-nigeria-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/e-transmission-all-polling-units-in-nigeria-online","title":{"rendered":"E-Transmission: All Polling Units in Nigeria Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Former National Commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Festus Okoye, says every polling unit in Nigeria has internet access.<\/p>\n<p>Okoye made this revelation on Tuesday during an interview on Trust TV monitored.<\/p>\n<p>He was speaking on the national debate around the Electoral Act amendment by the National Assembly and signed by President Bola Tinubu.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cAll the INEC machines for the election come with power bank and other accessories.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow, when elections are over, the Presiding Officer has snapped the For EC8A and there\u2019s no network at that particular point, it stores the information in. The moment it comes into contact with the network, it transmits immediately.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, what the Presiding Officer has inputed, he cannot undo it until he gets network. No these whole issue about network, I think it\u2019s an unnecessary debate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s no polling unit in this country where there\u2019s no network. None. Forget about all these things about network connectivity. It\u2019s just a lame excuse.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBefore iReV was deployed, the Commission conducted elections in different places and has used its result viewing portal to upload polling units level results.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Former National Commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Festus Okoye, says every polling unit in Nigeria has internet access. Okoye made this revelation on Tuesday during an interview on Trust TV monitored. He was speaking on the national debate around the Electoral Act amendment by the National Assembly and signed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":196149,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[254],"class_list":["post-196150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>E-Transmission: All Polling Units in Nigeria Online - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former National Commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Festus Okoye, says every polling un ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/e-transmission-all-polling-units-in-nigeria-online\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"E-Transmission: All Polling Units in Nigeria Online\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Former National Commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Festus Okoye, says every polling un ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/e-transmission-all-polling-units-in-nigeria-online\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-02-25T09:00:02+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-02-25T10:08:15+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2026\/02\/sm_1772014061.913174.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/e-transmission-all-polling-units-in-nigeria-online#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/e-transmission-all-polling-units-in-nigeria-online\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"E-Transmission: All Polling Units in Nigeria Online\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-02-25T09:00:02+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-02-25T10:08:15+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/e-transmission-all-polling-units-in-nigeria-online\"},\"wordCount\":211,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/e-transmission-all-polling-units-in-nigeria-online#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2026\/02\/sm_1772014061.913174.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/e-transmission-all-polling-units-in-nigeria-online#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/e-transmission-all-polling-units-in-nigeria-online\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/e-transmission-all-polling-units-in-nigeria-online\",\"name\":\"E-Transmission: All Polling Units in Nigeria Online - 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