Disturbed by news report that retired military generals of Northern extraction would soon meet in Kaduna at the instance of the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) to discuss issues about the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari, and the 2011 general election, chieftains of the ACF, on Wednesday, in Kaduna said the […]
THE Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), on Wednesday, prayed a Federal High Court in Abuja to stop the execution of the judgment that extended the tenure of five governors to 2012. In a motion for stay filed by the counsel for the electoral body, Carol Ajie, INEC asked the court for an interim order stopping […]
Chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Attahiru Jega has expressed concern over alleged hostility by some state governors to opposition parties in their states, especially as it concerns electioneering campaign. He expressed his concern just as some 13 political parties, including the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) withheld their assents to the new […]
IBADAN-Ahead of April polls, the Oyo State Police Command has warned that any politician caught with dangerous weapons during the poll would be seriously dealth with. Unlike in the past election when the police would need directives from the Independent National Electoral Commission, the State Police Commissioner, Mr. Baba Adisa Bolanta, said the force had […]
President Goodluck Jonathan (left),Vice President Namadi Sambo(middle), and former Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Board of Trustees (BoT) Chairman, Tony Anenih, acknowledging cheers at the party’s presidential campaign rally in Benin City … on Tuesday. American Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, may lead a high-powered delegation to observe and monitor the April elections in Nigeria. White […]
Ebonyi State Governor, Martin Elechi yesterday shunned the presidential campaign train of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), led by the party Chairman, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu as the team was turned back at the gate of the Government House. The team including the presidential candidate, Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau was denied entry by security operatives, claiming […]
Ahead of the April 2011 general elections and and the need for the peoples votes to count, the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) is putting in place a high-powered meeting of former security chiefs of northern extraction to tackle the worsening security situation in the country, particularly in the North. The Forum, at one of its […]
Following reports of sharp practices among the electoral officers during past elections, Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Attahiru Jega yesterday summoned the electoral officers across the federation to a meeting warning that any of them caught conniving with politicians in the April polls will be prosecuted and sent to jail. Jega […]
THE presidency is said to have uncovered plot by some opposition figures to discredit the process leading to the conduct of the April general election, even before the elections are conducted. Sources told the Nigerian Tribune that the government had uncovered plans by certain opposition leaders to push negative stuff about the elections into some […]
The Chairman, Senate Committee on Finance and former governor of Kaduna State, Senator Ahmed Mohammed Makarfi, has predicted that during the forthcoming general election in Nigeria, the people may likely vote for individuals and not necessarily political parties. In an interview with newsmen in Kaduna, Makarfi said he believed that the election was going to […]
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