NIGERIA has been registering voters for elections since 1922 when the legislative council elections were held by the Clifford colonial administration. And yet, about 89 years later, Nigeria is still having problems compiling a proper data base for elections nor is it able to formulate an acceptable electoral framework: it is the ultimate sign of […]
There are indications that at least three sitting Peoples Democratic Party governors in the North are currently desperate for the support of President Goodluck Jonathan in the run-up to April’s governorship election. Investigations by our correspondents on Friday showed that there was concern among the supporters of Zamfara State Governor, Alhaji Aliyu Shinkafi; his Sokoto […]
GOVERNOR Babatunde Raji Fashola of Lagos State has directed that the usual restriction of movement on the last Saturday of the month be suspended tomorrow. Commissioner for the Environment, Dr. Muiz Banire who made this known said the governor issued the directive to enable more people participate in the ongoing voters’ registration exercise which is […]
Atiku Abubakar has through his campaign organization, petitioned the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on the outcome of the last presidential primary election of the party where President Goodluck Jonathan emerged the winner. In the petition dated January 20 and signed by the Director-General of the campaign organisation Senator Ben Obi, the Atiku group said […]
Mercy Johnson might rightly be one of the most-talked about actresses in Nollywood. One of the reasons for this is the controversies that have surrounded her career. Yet, the babe is daring and a professional to the core. The curvy actresses shocked many people when she shaved off her hair recently for a role in […]
Apparently in a last-minute effort to beat the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)’s January 31 dead-line for bank customers to update their account infor-mation, customers, on Fri-day, thronged the various banking halls to avert the apex bank’s sanctions. The CBN had initially set December 31, 2010 deadline for the update but later shifted it to […]
Barely 48 hours after the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) issued a communique denouncing the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) primary that produced President Goodluck Jonathan as its presidential candidate, a pro-Jonathan member of the ACF and former secretary of the forum’s political committee, Alhaji Mohammed Abdurrahman, has called the bluff of the Arewa chieftains, whom he […]
Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) may have lost no fewer than 20 Direct Data Capturing (DDC) machines to thieves who stormed various centres earmarked for the ongoing voter registration exercise. Some of the machines were reported stolen in the stores in which they were kept by the commission. Saturday Tribune findings, however, show that out […]
Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, witnessed pandemonium on Friday following the killing of All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) candidate in the forthcoming April poll, Alhaji Modi Fannani Gubio, and six other persons, including blood brother of Governor Ali Modu Sheriff, Alhaji Goni Modu Sheriff. The men were killed by gunmen suspected to be members of […]
The Nobel Peace Laureate returned to the country on Thursday from a month abroad and declared he was ready to lead the protesters towards regime change. Police stationed outside his suburban Cairo home have told him he cannot leave the house after he joined tens of thousands of protesters in the capital. Yesterday, crowds threw […]
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