National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI) has launched an unmanned aerial vehicle which was locally developed by the agency to boost agricultural production in Nigeria.

Prof. Mohammed Sani Haruna, Executive Vice Chairman of NASENI, who disclosed this at the venue of the launch in Abuja, also displayed an e-voting machine that would assist the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to conduct free and fair elections in Nigeria.

He said the agency’s solar-powered electronic voting solution with cloud-based (computing) collation of election results is the solution to Nigeria’s electoral challenges.

According to him, “The electronic voting solution developed by NASENI is the solution to the nation’s election issues. “It was specifically developed to address almost all the issues and challenges that bedevil election processes in Nigeria. It would be appropriate and beneficial for Nigeria to accept and adopt this indigenous solution for increasing the credibility of election processes.”

He explained that the existing Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Permanent Voters Card (PVC) has been adopted for use in the new e-voting equipment.

He noted with satisfaction that the e-voting machine could print out Permanent Voters Card (PVC) within five minutes after registration.

The Executive Vice Chairman of NASENI further pointed out that the machine, which relies on a robust hardware and software, also guarantees national, state, and local government elections are conducted on the same day and at the same time.

Other special features which the NASENI electronic voting solution provides, according to him, include the fact that it minimizes human interference to the election process, eliminates the use of ballot boxes, discards the use of paper ballot as well as eliminate multiple voting, among others.

Haruna noted that the agency had over the years developed capacities that would take the country to the greater heights as well as reduce poverty, hunger and misery in the country.

He explained that through the deployment of engineering innovations, technologies, researches and other scientific breakthroughs and results, the country would become great among the comity of nations.

https://www.today.ng/news/nigeria/95798/naseni-launches-unmanned-aerial-vehicle-voting-machine

This is very impressive, after the machine is properly test-runned, I hope INEC adopts it for the 2019 and subsequent elections.



With technology base solutions such as this, rigging of elections will continue to reduce.

with this the high vote in the north will surely drop, Technology is the best way

We don't know how expensive one machine is. I doubt if it'll be feasible in Nigeria in a span of 10 years.