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Elections 2011, Latest Politics
Monday, May 23rd, 2011
SURVIVORS of the post-election violence in some northern states yesterday in Abuja narrated their plight and attributed their escape to divine providence. Some of the survivors, mostly National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) members posted to Bauchi State for the mandatory national assignment, called on the Federal Government to prosecute the perpetrators of the mayhem to […]
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Elections 2011, Latest Politics
Sunday, May 22nd, 2011
Acting on the reports on the last general elections, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), is to embark on total restructuring and overhaul of its over 12, 000 personnel in preparation for the next polls. This is even as the commission disclosed that it spent over N10 billion to conduct the April elections. The INEC […]
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Abia, Elections 2011, Headlines, State News
Tuesday, May 17th, 2011
•Ballot box Photo: Sun News Publishing More Stories on This Section Fresh facts are unfolding in Abia State to corroborate numerous calls by opposition politicians for the cancellation of the April polls alleged to have been rigged by those declared winners in the state, mostly members of Peoples Democratic party, PDP . The latest was […]
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Edo, Elections 2011, Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Presidency, State News
Sunday, May 15th, 2011
Prior to the April 16 presidential election , one of the states President Goodluck Jonathan was not expected to win was Edo State. Though a South- South state, the state was marked an “enemy” territory. The state is ruled by the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN). Consequently, political pundits in various analysis gave the president […]
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Elections 2011, Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Latest Politics, Presidency, South-East
Thursday, May 12th, 2011
President Goodluck Jonathan has thanked the people of the South East for massively voting for him during the just concluded Presidential election.Jonathan, at a one-day rally in Owerri on Friday, however, said the support and votes for him as President cannot be complete if the governors of the zone are not carried along in the […]
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Elections 2011
Thursday, May 12th, 2011
THE Presidential Commission of Inquiry into the election violence in Akwa Ibom State and the civil unrest in parts of North which was inaugurated by President Goodluck Jonathan has asked for adequate security for its members to enable them carry out their assignment. The Chairman of the Panel, Sheikh Ahmed Lemu, called for the protection […]
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Elections 2011, Latest Politics, NNP Elections 2011 Updates, South-West
Tuesday, May 10th, 2011
Fresh documents obtained by Daily Sun have exposed the massive electoral fraud perpetrated by the Peoples Democratic Party in the previous elections, especially in 2003. A comparative analysis of the results of the presidential election in 2003 and 2011, with particular reference to Ogun state, show a rather wide margin between registered voters and actual […]
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Articles, Churchill Okonkwo, Columnists, Elections 2011, NNP Columnists, South-West
Sunday, May 8th, 2011
By Churchil Okonkwo, NNP – May 8, 2011 – Just before this general election in a piece “Southeast Governors, Dora Akunyili and Ohaneze: The Scavengers that will Destroy Ndigbo” I wrote that the present crop of politicians pretending to be fighting for Odimma Ndigbo are nothing but scavengers that will ultimately leave the position of […]
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Elections 2011, Governors, Imo, Latest Politics, NNP Elections 2011 Updates, Party Politics, State News
Saturday, May 7th, 2011
The Association of Opposition Political Parties, under the aegis of Patriotic Alliance of Nigeria (PAN) in Imo, on Saturday described the defeat of Gov Ikedi Ohakim as “a new dawn” for the state. In the same vein, the Conference of Nigerian Political Parties (CNPP) says the emergence of Chief Rochas Okorocha also signalled “the end […]
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Elections 2011, Imo, Latest Politics, NNP Elections 2011 Updates, State News
Saturday, May 7th, 2011
Owerri – The declaration of the APGA candidate in the Imo supplementry governorship poll Rochas Okorocha as winner by INEC has been received with mixed feelings by Nigerians spoken with on Saturday. Thousands of youths, traders, artisans, tricycle operators took over the major roads and streets of the town in celebration of the candidate’s victory. […]
