With nine days to the presidential election, President Goodluck Jonathan, the candidate of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), is most likely to win at first ballot, going by the latest results from the poll conducted for THISDAY by Ipsos, the world’s leading market research company. But on the down side, the ruling party may […]
By Hakeem Babalola, Budapest, Hungary – April 7, 2011 – We’re all analysing with a first class self-deceit. How can we sorrow about the postponed election when we have already projected Nigeria as doomed? Don’t we understand INEC is part of that doom we have been mouthing about? To be surprised is to be part […]
By Dr. Leonard K. Shilgba, Yola, Nigeria, April 7, 2011 – The last presidential debate organized by the Nigerian Election Debate Group (NEDG) on March 30, 2011 exposed the petulance and pettiness of some of the presidential candidates seeking the votes of Nigerians. What options does the Nigerian electorate have now? It was reported that […]
By Muhammad Ajah, NNP – April, 2011 – In Nigeria, soldiers are feared to a large extent and respected too. This is a product of the military regimes under which the country was subjected for very long time after Nigeria’s Independence in 1960. Added to that, soldiers are naturally seen as the harshest of all […]
Powerful Nigerians close to President Jonathan are pushing for the removal of the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Attahiru Jega. They are using last Saturday’s botched parliamentary elections as a convenient peg, and are mobilizing members of the National Assembly to return to Abuja to carry out a speedy trial and […]
The chances of sweeping the polls in Kwara state at the April general elections by the Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN) has become brighter following the defection yesterday of the chairmen, gubernatorial candidates, members of six opposition parties and their supporters in the state to the ACPN. The parties are the Labour Party, National […]
THE Rivers People Congress, yesterday, warned that no harm must befall the state governor, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi. National leader of the group, Chief Martins Kunumgbe, in a statement said the Federal Government should offer protection to the citizens, adding that a strong security presence is needed in the riverine parts of the state. The statement […]
THE presidential candidate of Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (Rtd), has said his administration would ensure even development of the country and judicious application of resources, insisting that it was only corrupt Nigerians that were afraid of him coming to office. Speaking in Onitsha during his campaign tour of Anambra State, Buhari […]
Former Head of State and presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), General Muhammadu Buhari (retd) has insisted that his government would remove the immunity clause that protects public office holders. He said propriety and accountability could not be compromised. Buhari made the assertion yesterday in Lagos while presenting his party’s manifesto. He […]
Thirty-nine Corps members who are Adhoc staff of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) were yesterday arrested by the police in Lokoja, Kogi State for allegedly holding a secret meeting on how to rig Saturday’s rescheduled National Assembly election in the state. They were arrested in the GRA house of a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) stalwart […]
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