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Election 2015, Elections, Headlines, INEC Politics, Rivers, State News
Tuesday, March 22nd, 2016
Military plotting to declare state of emergency — Wike *Wike is turning Rivers to another Somalia — APC *Hold INEC, security agencies responsible —PDP By Jimitota Onoyume, Kingsley Omonobi, Henry Umoru, Ben Agande & Omeiza Ajayi PORT HARCOURT— THE Independent National Electoral Commssion, INEC, has said that it will not return to Rivers until the […]
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Election 2015, Elections, Headlines, Rivers, State News
Sunday, March 20th, 2016
PORT HARCOURT – Security was, Sunday evening, beefed to the teeth at the of Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, as the commission collation to announced the official results of the Saturday’s Federal and State legislative elections. INEC on Saturday conducted a rerun elections of the National and state house of Assembly seats that were annulled […]
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Election 2015, Elections, Headlines, Nigerian Police, Rivers, State News
Sunday, March 13th, 2016
Adelani Adepegba, Abuja The Inspector-General of Police, Solomon Arase, has directed the Assistant Inspector-General of Police in charge of Zone 6, Calabar, Adisa Bolanta, and three Commissioners of Police to relocate to Port Harcourt on Monday (today) for preparations forwards the rerun, holding in the state on Saturday. This, he said, was in furtherance of […]
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Benue, Election 2015, Elections, General Politics, Headlines, Legislature, Senate, State News
Sunday, February 21st, 2016
The Independent National Election Commission, INEC, has declared former Senate President, David Mark, as the winner of the Saturday’s Benue South Senatorial District Re-run election. Mark polled a total of 84,192 to defeat his closest rival, Daniel Onjeh who got 71, 621 votes. He won in five local government areas while Onjeh won in four. […]
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Benue, Election 2015, Elections, General Politics, Headlines, State News
Saturday, February 20th, 2016
-Vanguard See some of the results coming from the polling booths in the ongoing Benue South Senatorial District re-run election. The Senatorial District is made up of Ogbadibo, Okpokwu, Ado, Oju, Apa, Agatu, Ohimini, Otukpo and Obi local government areas. Mark-Onjeh Former Senate President, David Mark, of the Peoples Democratic Party,PDP, is seeking […]
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Benue, Election 2015, Elections, Headlines, Legislature, Senate, State News
Sunday, February 7th, 2016
By Michael Jegede Former Senate President, Senator David Mark of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and one-time President of West Africa Students Union (WASU), Comrade Daniel Onjeh of the All Progressives Congress, APC, will be slugging it out on February 20, 2016, in the rerun of Benue South senatorial election. After the March 28, 2015 […]
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Articles, Columnists, Election 2015, Elections, NNP Columnists, Olalekan Waheed Adigun, State News
Saturday, February 6th, 2016
By Olalekan Waheed Adigun | Lagos, Nigeria | Feb. 6, 2016 – Depending on one’s political persuasions, many stayed glued to their radio or television stations in anticipation of the declaration of the much-anticipated election result in Kogi on November, 21. The social media was awash with all manner of projections about who the eventual […]
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Election 2015, Elections, Headlines, State News, Taraba, Women Politics
Sunday, January 31st, 2016
The developments in Taraba State since the governorship election have been very interesting. First was an election that was marred by irregularities and even before that some candidates did not satisfy the provision of the law to contest the position, as was evidenced in the PDP, which did not conduct Primaries. Now, all that have […]
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Bayelsa, Election 2015, Elections, Headlines, State News
Thursday, January 14th, 2016
Governor-elect of Bayelsa, Seriake Dickson, on Thursday said his win at the polls is an indication that there is hope for democracy in Nigeria. Governor Dickson made the remark at the presentation of the certificate of return to him and his Deputy Governor-elect, Rear Admiral Gboribiogha John Jonah (rtd), at the State Headquarters of the Independent National […]
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Election 2015, Elections, Headlines, State News, Zamfara
Friday, January 8th, 2016
From: GODWIN TSA, Abuja The Supreme Court yesterday upheld the election of Malam Abdulazeez Yari of All Progressives Congress as governor of Zamfara. In a unanimous judgment, the apex court dismissed the petition challenging the election of Governor Yari for lack of merit. Alhaji Mahmud Shinkafi, the candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the […]
