Registration of political parties is one of the main functions of INEC. Political associations are constitutionally prohibited from functioning as political parties unless they are registered with Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as political parties. Guidelines for the registration of political parties are intended to set out in unambiguous terms and statutory requirements for registering new political parties. It outlines the procedure for filing the application, condition for registration as a political party, the symbol of the association, eligibility to be registered as members of political association. It also provides extracts of constitutional requirements for the registration of new political parties.

The guidelines are designed to address all aspects of meetings, rallies and campaigns and also take full cognizance of relevant provisions of the Electoral Act 2010. It offers political parties and candidates a good understanding of the rules and legal limits regarding the conduct of rallies and campaigns. It also provides a more comprehensive reference point for monitors and observers to easily establish levels of compliance or non-compliance by political parties, candidates and their supporters respectively.

This is a Bill enacted by the National Assembly of the Federal Republic of Nigeria that authorize the issue from the Consolidated Revenue, Fund of the Federation for the year 2017.

The Independent National Electoral Commission’s (INEC) gender policy is a response to the National Gender Policy (2006) and Vision 20:20 (2009) which recognize that gender equality and women’s empowerment are basic human rights that lie at the heart of equitable development and which call on all state and non-state actors to promote gender equality through their institutional practices and policies. This policy therefore seeks to encourage and expand the participation of all in the political and electoral spaces. It demonstrates the Commission’s commitment to the goal of deepening Nigeria’s democratic experience by outlining measures that can collectively be taken to ensure that the participation of nearly half of the population of the country in its affairs is broadened.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) procures goods and services through competitive tenders in accordance with the due process policy of the Federal Government of Nigeria. This manual therefore defines the policies and procedures for determining, contracting and monitoring the acquisition, by purchase or lease, of goods, works and/or non-personnel services by the Independent National Electoral Commission.

These guidelines are provided to ensure that election observation duties are carried out in accordance with the law and best practices. They reflect the standards of Nigeria’s Electoral Act as well as the minimum standards for election observation, which Nigeria subscribes to as a sovereign member of the international community.

This manual is designed to guide Independent National Electoral Commission monitors in carrying out effective monitoring and reporting of party congresses (ward, local government area, state), party primaries, party national conventions. It details party monitoring, procedure for party monitoring, requirement aim & objective of party monitoring, and requirement and goals of monitoring.

This regulation is made further to the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and the Electoral Act 2010 (as amended) in order to ensure to ensure compliance with the legal process of selection of candidates and the conduct of free, fair and transparent primaries by all political parties.

The strategic plan is a practical, action-oriented guide which has been developed based on an examination of internal and external factors that direct goal setting and resource allocation to achieve meaningful results over time. It is a master plan designed to help the Commission develop a pragmatic roadmap for its work over the next five years. The strategic objectives of this plan are to provide electoral operations, systems and infrastructure to support delivery of free, fair and credible elections, to improve voter education, training and research, to register political parties and monitor their operations, to interact nationally and internationally with relevant stakeholders, to re-organize and reposition INEC for sustained conduct of free, fair and credible elections.

The 2018 appropriation act highlights the various Zonal intervention projects to be executed in Nigeria

These regulations apply to all embedded generators licensees, applications for embedded generation licenses being processed by the Commission, and prospective embedded generators, unless otherwise specified. The document defines the role of distribution licensees. Some of these functions include: forecasting the future demand on its distribution system; analysing the impact of the connection of new facilities such as generation unit(s), loads, distribution lines, or substations; planning the expansion of the distribution system to ensure its adequacy to meet forecast demand and the connection of new facilities; identifying and correcting problems on quality of supply, power quality and system losses in the distribution system; and distribution planning and system studies.

These regulations apply to all independent electricity distribution systems and the owners, operators and users of the distribution systems. Rule 9 of the document provides for the license application procedure. It emphasizes that all applications and related proceedings before the commission for grant of an independent electricity distribution system license shall be governed by the application for licenses regulations, including amendments and statutory re-enactments thereof.

The regulations fully recognize that hi-tech OEM equipment e.g. Turbines have little scope for national content in the near term. However, it is expected that the maintenance of such equipment has significant scope for national content.

This document describes the requirements regulating the generation, transmission, distribution, and user’s site standards, guides, and recommended practices for use in the Nigerian Electricity Supply Industry (NESI). This document makes a general provision for the qualification of engineering personnel. it emphasizes that any person engaged in the generation, transmission, distribution, system operation, and trading in electricity or any aspect in the value chain of electricity supply, including but not limited to engineering designs, installations, commissioning, decommissioning and maintenance of electric power systems to achieve safe and reliable supply, and utilization of electricity in Nigeria, shall comply with the provisions of the Electric Power Sector Reform (EPSR) Act 2005, the Nigerian Electricity Supply and Installation Standards (NESIS) regulations, license terms and conditions and all other regulations, codes, standards made under the EPSR Act.

This is an Act specifying miscellaneous offences and their stiff penalties and for the trial of such offenders. This act defines various offences, including the wilful setting on fire of cultivations and the sale of goods prohibited from importation by any law force in Nigeria. The act empowers the Federal High Court to try any person for any of such offences.

This regulation sets out the minimum physical, functional, interface and data requirements for a smart metering system. This covers all classes and types of smart meters, communication systems, and other components of an advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) deployment to measure electrical energy consumption, support billing (Multi-Tariff and Multi-Source), pre-paid and credit payment functionality, remote load control (connection/disconnection) and to report events/alarms to other control and monitoring systems e.g. outage management systems (OMS). The system shall provide information and data to support smart grid applications and have the capability of extending its functionality to load control, demand response and demand-side management (DSM) services.

This is an act to provide for the control of the importation, sale, advertisement, distribution, or offer as a sample or gift of breast-milk substitutes or infant formula to members of the public.

These regulations were developed in pursuance of the objective to empower the Commission to preserve the efficient industry and market structures, to ensure the optimal utilization of resources for the provision of electricity services, to ensure the safety, security, reliability and quality of service in the production and delivery of electricity to consumers and to regulate people engaged in the generation, transmission, system operation, distribution and trading of electricity.

This document provides the requirements for the installation, earthing and maintenance of electric fences, outlining ways to improve the performance and safety of electric fences. The regulations apply to electric fences intended for the protection of properties against theft and damage.

The objective of this Regulation is to promote the deliberate utilization of Nigerian human and material resources, goods, works and services in the energy industry and to build capabilities in Nigeria to support increased investment in the industry.