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 […]
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 […]
“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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal on Friday stopped the Independent National Electoral Commission from conducting the April 26, 2011 governorship election in Sokoto, Kogi, Adamawa, Bayelsa and Cross River states. It held that since they took oath of office and oath of allegiance in 2008, the tenure of the five governors […]
Today, the die is cast and all the anxiety of who becomes the country’s president in the next four years would give way within the next 48 hours, when the results would be announced. Some of the presidential candidates are seen as contestants to the throne, while some are mere pretenders. Indeed, most of them […]
For Nigerians, the moment of decision is here, as they troop to the polling booths today (Saturday) to elect their president. All eyes will be on Nigeria, the most populous African country with a population of 150 million. President Goodluck Jonathan of the Peoples Democratic Party; Mallam Nuhu Ribadu of the Action Congress of Nigeria; […]
Senate President, Senator David Mark, has submitted that the perseverance, commitment and patriotism displayed by Nigerians towards the success of the 2011 elections have erased the fears hitherto expressed by skeptics about the polls. Senator Mark told a delegation of the European Union (EU) international observers to the 2011 elections in Nigeria that Nigerians had […]
A total of 1, 980,000 ballot papers have been received by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Ogun State ahead of tomorrow’s presidential election. Also, all the Form EC8 series needed for the recording of the election results were also received. Disclosing this, on Thursday, to newsmen was the state Resident Electoral Commissioner, Mr […]
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