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Bayelsa INEC to use helicopter to lift election materials

Posted by admin Bayelsa, Elections 2011, State News Friday, March 25th, 2011

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Bayelsa State is to use helicopters to airlift election materials in the state in the coming electioins. It has also acquired 18 speedboats to aid it in moving men and materials. The State Resident Electoral Commissioner, Engr. Edwin Nwatalari told political stakeholders at a meeting in Yenagoa that […]

Buhari, Ribadu, Shekarau Opt out of BON Debate

Posted by admin Elections 2011, National Politics Thursday, March 24th, 2011

The hopes that Nigerians have of seeing a televised debate involving all the leading presidential candidates in the country will have to wait a little longer following the decision of the three frontline opposition candidates to withdraw from the event schedule to take place next Tuesday, March 29 in Abuja. Muhammadu Buhari of the Congress […]

Election violence: Anti-terrorism squad takes over INEC HQ •Jega expresses worries

Posted by admin Elections 2011, Top Stories Thursday, March 24th, 2011

AS the general election draws near, officers and men of the Anti-terrorism Squad (ATS) of the Nigeria Police have taken over the national headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Abuja. According to checks by the Nigerian Tribune, the ATS personnel, armed to the teeth, were stationed at strategic positions within and around […]

Why crooked politicians win elections in Nigeria -Jega

Posted by admin Elections 2011, INEC Politics, National Politics Thursday, March 24th, 2011

The national chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Attahiru Jega, on Wednesday stated that political apathy by the citizens was responsible for the emergence of crooked politicians as leaders across the country. He observed that people did not get involved in the electoral process because their votes did not count adding that […]

Nigerians in Italy caution on April polls

Posted by admin Elections 2011 Thursday, March 24th, 2011

AHEAD of the April polls, Nigerians in Italy have cautioned against violence during the exercise. They also stressed the need for the citizens to use the polls to build a new Nigeria. Speaking on behalf of the Nigerian community, the General Secretary of Nigeria Union in Milan, Mr. Ezenwa Nwokoro, called on the electorate to […]

Govt orders crackdown as polls violence rages

Posted by admin Elections 2011 Thursday, March 24th, 2011

Two feared dead in Ekiti, Ondo, Jigawa clashes Supporters dump slain member at Fayemi’s office PDP, CPC secretariats burnt in Hadejia THE Federal Government yesterday declared as unacceptable and non permissible again the current orgy of violence in the polity. To the perpetrators of the mayhem, the Federal Executive Council (FEC), which met in Abuja, […]

Jonathan orders suspension of campaign director

Posted by admin Elections 2011 Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011

For ignoring his directive not to join opposition parties in smear campaigns, the Peoples Democratic Party, [PDP] Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) has suffered a casualty as President Goodluck Jonathan, on Tuesday, ordered the suspension of the PCC Director of Research and Strategy, Mr. Mike Omeri. A Daily Sun source revealed that at its stormy meeting […]

PICTURE: Concerns over rising pre-election violence

Posted by admin Elections 2011 Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011

POLITICAL parties and activists on Wednesday, expressed concerns at the rising level of political violence across the country. In Ekiti and Ondo States clashes among the supporters of the Peoples Democratic Party, the Action Congress of Nigeria and Labour Party left two dead and eight others seriously injured. While the violence raged in the […]

April polls: SSS uncovers gun factory in Enugu, 4 suspects arrested

Posted by admin Elections 2011 Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011

Few weeks to the commencement of the 2011 general elections in the country, the State Security Service (SSS) in Enugu State has uncovered an illegal factory where guns are manufactured in Agbada, Nenwe in the Aninri Local Government Area of the state. Four of the five suspects who are believed to run the illegal factory […]

Buhari defies police, shuts down Jos

Posted by admin Elections 2011, Top Stories Monday, March 21st, 2011

Presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on Monday, defied police order as he addressed a rally in Jos. Buhari’s action was said to have forced Plateau State Governor Jonah Jang to reschedule his planned rally which was earlier fixed for Monday till Tuesday (today). The police had a hectic […]