…21 suspected thugs arrested, PDP Youth leader shot dead SIMON EBEGBULEM AND GABRIEL ENOGHOLASE BENIN CITY- THE National Assembly election in Edo state commenced peacefully Saturday with large turn out, as soldiers on election duty arrested a truck loaded with election materials alleged to have been meant for Zamfara, Kogi and Ogun States, at […]
THE national assembly election took place in the 44 councils of Kano State without any known case of violence and breach of the peace. Despite the mass turn out which took many by surprise, there were cases of three persons arrested with 500 ballot papers at Minjibir, Gejawa council of the state. At about the […]
Nigerians are voting in parliamentary elections which have been marred by bloody attacks and chaotic delays. Polling had to be abandoned last week after election material failed to reach many areas. Security is tight following sporadic violence in the campaign. Several people were hurt on Saturday in a blast at a polling station in the […]
A suspected bomber has reportedly died in an explosion at a polling unit in Unguwar Doki near Monday Market in Maiduguri, Borno State. The explosion, which occurred as accreditation of voters was underway, led to a fire at the abandoned nearby Maiduguri International Hotel. Reports said the dead man was trying to detonate the bomb […]
In its desperation to win tomorrow’s rescheduled National Assembly poll, the chiefT.A Orji-led government in Abia State has hatched a plan to use the military and other security agencies to intimidate opposition candidates and their supporters. A source told Daily Sun that feelers from the botched Saturday’s polls sobered the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) government. […]
President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday said Nigeria could not maintain its leadership position in Africa without a free, fair and transparent election. The President spoke during an audience with a delegation of the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs at the State House, Abuja. “Several countries in Africa have had successful elections, and if […]
Men of the State Security Service on Wednesday evening arrested a printer in Mokola, Ibadan,with about 7,000 copies of ballot papers. The man, who was arrested in his printing press, was taken to the Mokola Divisional Police Headquarters from where he was later moved to the Criminal Investigation Department of the state police command […]
The Federal Executive Council on Wednesday washed its hands off the failure of the Independent National Electoral Commission to conduct the National Assembly elections on April 2. It said after its weekly meeting in Abuja that INEC, which it described as an independent body, was granted all its requests prior to the botched elections. […]
WIFE of the presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Hajia Aishat Buhari, has appealed to women to use their numerical strength to vote incorruptible politicians into office. Hajia Buhari, whose husband, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, ruled Nigeria as a military head of state between 1983 and 1985, yesterday urged Nigerians to use their […]
THE United Nations (UN) on Tuesday expressed the belief that Nigeria was on track in spite of the shift in dates of the general elections by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC.) The UN spokesperson, Martin Nesirky, made this known to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in New York on the sidelines of the […]
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