In contemporary state system, ultimate power lies with the military, not so much for its famed discipline and cohesive structure, but because it monopolises access to organised, purposeful and legitimate violence. Among other defining characteristics of the modern state, which includes definitive and delineable territories, the military is the most decisive guarantor of the state, […]
Less than a month to the general elections, major political parties are violating the Independent National Electoral Commission’s rules on campaigns. Investigations by our correspondent on Friday in Abuja showed that political parties had been violating INEC’s rules on the conduct of political parties at campaigns. But the Chief Press Secretary to the INEC Chairman, […]
Indications have emerged that President Goodluck Jonathan and the Peoples Democratic Party have begun moves to neutralise the strength of the Congress for Progressive Change presidential candidate, Gen. Mohammadu Buhari, in the North-West ahead of the April presidential poll. SATURDAY PUNCH investigations on Friday showed that the President and the party had intensified pressure on […]
THE Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has come under pressure not to publish the list of names of influential politicians who were involved in multiple registration during the voter registration exercise held in the country recently. Investigation by Saturday Tribune revealed that notable politicians, who knew their culpability in the multiple registration saga could mar […]
T emerged in Abuja on Thursday that the campaign organisation of President Goodluck Jonathan and the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) may shun the planned presidential debate as a result of the failure of opposition parties to join the presidential campaign train. Sources told the Nigerian Tribune that the president’s men believed that […]
ON Wednesday, last week, a Federal High Court sitting in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, ruled that five state governors, namely, Ibrahim Idris of Kogi, Aliyu Wamako of Sokoto, Murtala Nyako of Adamawa, Liyel Imoke of Cross River, and Timipre Sylva of Bayelsa who won re-run elections in 2008 would remain in office till 2012 […]
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja yesterday nullified the sequence of general elections as rolled out by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in its electoral guidelines and timetable of activities for the April polls. The court restrained the Commission from going ahead with the order of election while ruling on the suit filed […]
ON what grounds will the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, appeal a federal high court decision excluding five states – Bayelsa, Cross River, Kogi, Sokoto and Adamawa – from the governorship polls? Justice Adamu Bello ruled that the tenure of governors Timipre Sylva (Bayelsa), Liyel Imoke ( Cross River ), Ibrahim Idris (Kogi), Aliyu Wamakko […]
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has dispelled speculations that it was discarding the recent electronically compiled voters register. INEC in a statement by Mr. Kayode Idowu, Chief Press Secretary to the National Chairman, said the clarification became necessary following reports that the commission was going to discard the recent register compiled through electronic means […]
Former Senate Deputy President and a chieftain of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Mamman Danmusa, has said President Goodluck Jonathan would be walking the tight rope if he is really serious about capturing the South-West in the April polls by all means. Danmusa, who is also Second Republic speaker of the Kaduna State House […]
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