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DDC machines thieves are wasting their time -Zinox Boss

Posted by admin Elections 2011 Tuesday, January 25th, 2011

Chairman of Zinox Technologies, Mr Leo Stan Ekeh, has said that political miscreants or thieves, who made away with some DDC machines before or during the voter registration exercise are wasting their time, because they do not stand a chance of influencing the outcome of the 2011 elections. He stated that the raw data currently […]

INEC gets 4 weeks extension

Posted by admin Elections 2011 Tuesday, January 25th, 2011

Angry members of the House of Representatives were denied the opportunity of ventilating their anger against the leadership which hurriedly adjourned plenary after agreeing to extend the recess by another two weeks. Before the elongation of the holiday, however, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) was granted a leeway to extending the deadline for the […]

Buhari Considers Bakare as Running Mate

Posted by admin Elections 2011, Muhammadu Buhari (1983-85, 2015 - 2023), Presidency Sunday, January 23rd, 2011

As a back-up plan to the current alliance talks between the opposition parties, the presidential flagbearer of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, is seriously considering picking Pastor Tunde Bakare as his running mate in the April elections. The is even as the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) continues with its talks […]

Voters’ Registration: Unemployed youth sell queue spaces for N100

Posted by admin Elections 2011 Sunday, January 23rd, 2011

Unemployed youths in Damaturu, Yobe State, have found a new business: selling queue spaces to prospective registrants in the ongoing voter registration. Each space, according to one of the youths, who gave his name as Habu Shuaibu, sells for between N100 and N200. Shuaibu, who described the ‘business’ as ‘lucrative’ said he makes between […]

Voters’ registration: INEC to ask for more funds

Posted by admin Elections 2011 Sunday, January 23rd, 2011

TO extend the ongoing voters’ registration and ensure that would-be voters were not disenfranchised, Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega, may approach President Goodluck Jonathan this week for more funds. This came as some opposition political parties, weekend, opposed Jega’s decision to stop releasing grants to the parties and asked the commission […]

2011 Elections: Suit Seeks To Stop Presidential Poll

Posted by admin Elections 2011 Saturday, January 22nd, 2011

THE presidential election may not hold in April, going by a legal notice given by the Peoples Mandate Party (PMP). The party has asked the Court of Appeal in Abuja to restrain the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from conducting the election pending the determination of a petition filed by the party candidates challenging the […]

Iwu’s daughter petitions PDP

Posted by admin Elections 2011 Saturday, January 22nd, 2011

One of the candidates for the Mbaitoli-Ikeduru Federal Constituency, Imo State, on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mrs. Ijeoma Nwafor, has formally kicked against the outcome of the primary for her constituency. Nwafor, in a letter to the party, dated January 11, 2011, and made available to Sunday Tribune, faulted the primary […]

10 reasons Jega is failing and how politicians rig voter registration

Posted by admin Elections 2011 Saturday, January 22nd, 2011

Revelations coming from informed sources have indicated that Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Attahiru Jega, could fail to deliver on his promise of credible elections in April having fallen for some web of intrigues and power play within the commission. A number of technical incapabilities are also set to hinder the […]

INEC may extend voters’ registration

Posted by admin Elections 2011, Latest Politics Thursday, January 20th, 2011

IF Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Attahiru Jega, has a magic wand, now is the time to press it into service. Reason: Six days into the on-going voters’ registration exercise, some of the problems identified in the process remained unsolved yesterday as prospective voters trooped out en masse nationwide to obtain the voters […]

CPC Okays Aliero for Senate

Posted by admin Elections 2011, Kebbi, Legislature, Senate, State News Thursday, January 20th, 2011

Former governor of Kebbi State and Minister for the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Alhaji Adamu Aliero, will now be contesting for the Kebbi central senatorial district seat on the platform of Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), just as the gubernatorial candidate of the party, Alhaji Abubakar Malam, yesterday appointed former Secretary to the State Government […]