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Elections 2011, Kano, NNP Elections 2011 Updates, State News
Wednesday, April 27th, 2011
THE Kano State Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Alhaji Umar Dan- Yahaya, has said some ballot boxes were snatched during the gubernatorial and House of Assembly elections in the state. Disclosing this while speaking on the gubernatorial election, Alhaji Yahaya said there were adequate provisions of election materials to all the polling booths across the state. […]
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Benue, Elections 2011, NNP Elections 2011 Updates, State News
Wednesday, April 27th, 2011
THE gubernatorial and state House of Assembly elections were marred with violence in Benue State, as election materials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), meant for Kaseyo in Mbayee/Yandev ward of Guma Local Government Area of the state were set ablaze by hoodlums. The INEC officials in the area were also beaten up by […]
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Abia, Bayelsa, Benue, Delta, Ebonyi, Elections 2011, Enugu, Imo, Katsina, Kebbi, Nasarawa, Niger, NNP Elections 2011 Updates, Ogun, Oyo, State News
Wednesday, April 27th, 2011
• Niger, Nasarawa, Katsina, Kebbi, Oyo, Ogun affected • Imo dicey-Low voter turnout in several states • Police detonate bomb near INEC office in Delta Early results trickling in from different zones indicate that the opposition Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) and Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) are making serious inroads into erstwhile Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) controlled […]
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Elections 2011, Lagos, NNP Elections 2011 Updates, State News
Tuesday, April 26th, 2011
Most residents of Hausa communities in Apapa, Lagos, on Tuesday refused to show up at the various polling stations for the governorship and states’ Assembly elections. Also, in Idi-Araba, a Lagos suburb with preponderant Hausa population, there was general voter apathy and lack of enthusiasm among the residents, though the area had the highest number […]
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Elections 2011, NNP Elections 2011 Updates, Ogun, State News
Tuesday, April 26th, 2011
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, on Tuesday, said that the governorship candidate of the Action Congress of Nigeria, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, was not the ideal governor for Ogun State because his performance would not be different from that of Governor Gbenga Daniel. Obasanjo and Daniel belonged to the ruling People Democratic Party in the state. However, […]
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Bayelsa, Elections 2011, NNP Elections 2011 Updates, State News
Tuesday, April 26th, 2011
The Bayelsa State Police Command has deployed gun boats in flash points in the state to forestall violence in the State House of Assembly elections. The Commissioner of Police, Mr. Aderenle Shinaba, made this disclosure while parading seven suspects, who were arrested with arms and ammunition in Yenagoa, the state capital. He explained that the […]
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CPC (Congress 4 Progressive Change), Elections 2011, NNP Elections 2011 Updates, Party Politics
Tuesday, April 26th, 2011
The Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) has raised alarm over the harassment and intimidation of its members by the governors in the northern part of the country under the guide of security. According to a letter sent to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), signed by CPC Chairman, Prince Tony Momoh, the party said the […]
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Elections 2011, Enugu, Governors, Lagos, NNP Elections 2011 Updates, Ogun, Rivers, State News
Tuesday, April 26th, 2011
Mrs Atanda casting her vote at Methodist Pry School Orile Agege Local Government Area , Lagos State during the Governorship elections on Tuesday. PHOTO; Kehinde Gbadamosi Low voter turn out, violence mar polls, Akala, Shema struggling, Akpabio, Amaechi, Aliyu leading GOVERNORS Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers, and Sullivan Chime of Enugu […]
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Elections 2011, NNP Elections 2011 Updates, Oyo, State News
Tuesday, April 26th, 2011
The Oyo State Resident Electoral Commissioner, Mr. Ayo Adakeja, yesterday in Ibadan expressed his regret for accepting to server in the state, this was even as he and other chieftains of security agencies warned trouble makers plotting to cause crisis in today’s elections to steer clear or face the full wrath of the law. Mr. Adakeja […]
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Elections 2011, Governors, NNP Elections 2011 Updates, Plateau, State News, Women Politics
Tuesday, April 26th, 2011

AS the governorship election holds today, the contest in Plateau State promises to be interesting because of the recent crises in the state, Jude Owuamanam writes All eyes are on Plateau as the state gets set to make history today (Tuesday) as three political gladiators jostle for the Rayfield Government House. The incumbent Governor Jonah […]