In some of the results released at polling centres in Ibadan, President Goodluck Jonathan did won. At ward 9, unit 10, Mokola area of Ibadan PDP scored 219, ACN 65,CPC 33. Meanwhile, low turn-out of voters was recorded in virtually all polling centres in Oyo State during the presidential election. Except in Sabo area of […]
Jonathan Vows to Leave Power if Defeated President Goodluck Jonathan has assured Nigerians and the international community that he will leave power if defeated in the Presidential election which held Saturday across the country. He spoke immediately after casting his vote at 12.35pm Saturday, saying that though he was in the contest to […]
Lagos – Corps members participating in the ongoing general elections in Lagos State have started receiving their allowances. The News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, reports that many corps members on Friday gathered at the state NYSC secretariat to collect the allowances, while others went to the local government secretariats for theirs. Mr Ladipo Olaniyan, the […]
WARRI- AT least, 10 election observers, working for the Transition Monitoring Group, TMG, were held hostage in three local government areas of Delta State by political thugs, who did not want them to carry out their duties of monitoring today’s Presidential polls. The swift count observers were still being held by the thugs at Oghoye, […]
FORMER Minister of Petroleum and Steel and elder statesman, Alhaji Shettima Ali Monguno, on Thursday condemned the Ohanaeze Ndigbo leadership for urging the Igbo to vote en mass for President Goodluck Jonathan in today’s election, warning that such calls could jeopardise the peace and unity of the country. Monguno, who spoke to The Guardian at […]
NO fewer than 20 persons, who indulged in various forms of electoral offences, have been arrested by security agencies in Imo State, the state’s Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Prof Selina Oko, has disclosed. Briefing journalists on Thursday in Owerri on recent developments in the ongoing elections in the state, Oko said the arrested persons’ offences […]
“WHIFF of successful elections in Nigeria has, in fact, heightened the self-confidence of Africa because the image of Africa internationally hasn’t been too palatable. And Nigeria being the most populous country, we should see a credible presidential election this Saturday as sending messages around the world that Africa really means to serve itself well. It […]
Polling is under way in Nigeria’s presidential election, amid hopes of the freest and fairest vote there in two decades. Incumbent Goodluck Jonathan cast his ballot in his home state of Bayelsa in the oil-rich Niger Delta. His main challenge is expected to come from Muhammadu Buhari, an ex-military leader popular in the north. Before […]
Former National Deputy Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Shuaib Oyedokun, has said that no amount of tears shed by the presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Major-General Mohammadu Buhari (retd), would make Nigerians to change their minds from voting en-masse for the presidential candidate of the PDP, Dr. Goodluck […]
The Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal on Friday stopped the Independent National Electoral Commission from conducting the April 26, 2011 governorship election in Sokoto, Kogi, Adamawa, Bayelsa and Cross River states. It held that since they took oath of office and oath of allegiance in 2008, the tenure of the five governors […]
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