BARELY 72 hours after 28 political parties had their names deleted from the register of the Independent National Electoral Commission, indications emerged on Sunday that 24 more political parties might cease to exist before the 2015 general elections. The PUNCH learnt that INEC had decided that only 11 political parties would participate in the 2015 […]
A grand plot to cause divisions between President Goodluck Jonathan and the Senate President, David Mark, ahead of the 2015 election, has unfolded in Abuja, sources in the political circles have said. The design was said to be part of the grand design to emasculate President Jonathan ahead of the expected contest for the 2015 […]
Posted: December 10, 2012 – 04:05 Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo and Ghanaian President elect, John Dramani Mahama-Photo: Reuters By SaharaReporters, New York Following embarrassing and undemocratic utterances by General Olusegun Obasanjo at yesterday’s meeting of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the leadership of the commission today held a review meeting that […]
December 10, 2012 by Olusola Fabiy Buhari, Tinubu and Onu | credits: THREE major opposition political parties – Action Congress of Nigeria, Congress for Progressive Change and the All Nigeria Peoples Party – may drop their identities by April 2013, when talks on their proposed merger are expected to be completed. The merger of the […]
Ghana’s main opposition party says it is considering legal action to annul President John Mahama’s victory in Friday’s fiercely contested election. NPP chairman Jake Obetsebi Lamptey told the BBC it would decide on Tuesday whether there was “robust” evidence to prove the result had been manipulated. The election commission said Mr Mahama had secured 50.7% […]
A man suspected to be an okada rider was on Saturday evening electrocuted to death in Ejigbo, Lagos State. The deceased, identified as Oche Samuel, was said to have met his death at the shop of a motorcycle mechanic in the area. It was learnt that the deceased had taken his bike for repairs before […]
The police in Ekiti State have arrested a couple, Mr. Dada Ojo and his wife, Adejoke, for allegedly dumping their newborn baby inside a bush. Our correspondent learnt on Sunday that the woman and her husband were arrested on Friday. A source in the community said the cry of the baby in the bush attracted […]
Lagos State Governor Babatunde Fashola said post-civil war generation of Nigerians has moved beyond the sad episode and has resolved to ensure that the union of various ethnic groups in the country live in harmony. The governor said this in his speech at the 2012 Achebe Colloquium on Africa in Rhode Island, United States of […]
By Emma Amaize, Kingsley Omonobi, Austin Ogwuda & Festus Ahon ASABA – Gunmen, yesterday, raised the stake when they abducted the mother of the Minister of Finance, Prof. Okonjo-Iweala, Professor Kamene Okonjo, in Ogwashi-Uku, Delta State. Okonjo-Iweala’s mother, 82, who is the wife of the Obi of Ogwashi-Uku Kingdom, Professor Chukwuka Aninshi Okonjo Agbogidi, was […]
By Ayodele Babalola Deputy Chairman House Committee on Human Rights, Hon Rotimi Makinde has said that Federal House of Reps would do everything within its legislative capacity to ensure that the rights of every minority groups in Nigeria are protected under the law; even as he called for equity, fairness and justice, affirming that only […]
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