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Elections: Corps members receive allowances in Lagos

Posted by admin Elections 2011 Saturday, April 16th, 2011

Lagos – Corps members participating in the ongoing general elections in Lagos State have started receiving their allowances. The News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, reports that many corps members on Friday gathered at the state NYSC secretariat to collect the allowances, while others went to the local government secretariats for theirs. Mr Ladipo Olaniyan, the […]

10 election observers held hostage in Delta

Posted by admin Delta, Elections 2011, State News Saturday, April 16th, 2011

WARRI- AT least, 10 election observers, working for the Transition Monitoring Group, TMG, were held hostage in three local government areas of Delta State by political thugs, who did not want them to carry out their duties of monitoring today’s Presidential polls. The swift count observers were still being held by the thugs at Oghoye, […]

Ali Monguno Condemns Ohanaeze’s for call to Vote for Jonathan

Posted by admin Elections 2011, South-East Saturday, April 16th, 2011

FORMER Minister of Petroleum and Steel and elder statesman, Alhaji Shettima Ali Monguno, on Thursday condemned the Ohanaeze Ndigbo leadership for urging the Igbo to vote en mass for President Goodluck Jonathan in today’s election, warning that such calls could jeopardise the peace and unity of the country. Monguno, who spoke to The Guardian at […]

20 Arrested in Imo Over Polls Offences

Posted by admin Elections 2011, Imo, State News Saturday, April 16th, 2011

NO fewer than 20 persons, who indulged in various forms of electoral offences, have been arrested by security agencies in Imo State, the state’s Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Prof Selina Oko, has disclosed. Briefing journalists on Thursday in Owerri on recent developments in the ongoing elections in the state, Oko said the arrested persons’ offences […]

Credible Polls in Nigeria Will Boost Africa’s Image, Says Kuffuor

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Elections 2011 Saturday, April 16th, 2011

“WHIFF of successful elections in Nigeria has, in fact, heightened the self-confidence of Africa because the image of Africa internationally hasn’t been too palatable. And Nigeria being the most populous country, we should see a credible presidential election this Saturday as sending messages around the world that Africa really means to serve itself well. It […]

Nigeria presidential election: Voting under way – Pictures & Analysis

Posted by admin Elections 2011, NNP Elections 2011 Updates, Top Stories Saturday, April 16th, 2011

Polling is under way in Nigeria’s presidential election, amid hopes of the freest and fairest vote there in two decades. Incumbent Goodluck Jonathan cast his ballot in his home state of Bayelsa in the oil-rich Niger Delta. His main challenge is expected to come from Muhammadu Buhari, an ex-military leader popular in the north. Before […]

Alao-Akala’s Driver Dies in Stampede

Posted by admin General Politics, Oyo, State News Friday, April 15th, 2011

A driver attached to the convoy of Governor Adebayo Alao-Akala of Oyo State, Mr. Rahman Ishola, was killed in a stampede at the Ogbomoso residence of the governor on Thursday evening. The death of the driver took place inside the compound of Governor Alao-Akala in Ogbomoso in the presence of hundreds of people who thronged […]

No Amount Of Tears’ll Make Nigerians Change Their Minds – Oyedokun Tells Buhari

Posted by admin Elections 2011, Muhammadu Buhari (1983-85, 2015 - 2023), Presidency Friday, April 15th, 2011

Former National Deputy Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Shuaib Oyedokun, has said that no amount of tears shed by the presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Major-General Mohammadu Buhari (retd), would make Nigerians to change their minds from voting en-masse for the presidential candidate of the PDP, Dr. Goodluck […]

Western Union Fraud: Two bank officials arraigned, granted bail

Posted by admin Headlines Friday, April 15th, 2011

Two officials of Skye Bank Plc, Agodi, Ibadan branch, have been arraigned before a chief magistrate’s court on a three-count charge of forgery and stealing. According to the charge, the bank officials, Funmi Adekanbi and Adebukola Ademola, were accused of conspiring to commit felony including forgery and stealing, thereby committing an offence contrary to […]

Rescuing Nigeria from Her Godfathers and the Corporatocracy – By Dr. Leonard Shilgba

Posted by admin Columnists, Leonard K. Shilgba, PhD, NNP Columnists Friday, April 15th, 2011

By Dr. Leonard Karshima Shilgba, Yola, Nigeria – April 15, 2011 – The overwhelming verdict of people that participated in and observed the Nigerian national assembly election of April, 9, 2011 was that it was generally fair, transparent and credible. Nigerians voted for candidates of their choice. While some of those choices may not have […]