Jega suspends top officials over illegal substitution of candidates’ names

Chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Attahiru Jega has made good his promise not to spare any official of the Commission found to have compromised himself in the course of duties. Consequently, he has descended on the legal department of the Commission and suspended some top officials for allegedly changing illegally, names of […]

Ngige, Akunyili: Gunmen after Anene, invade UNIZIK

The Anambra Central Senatorial election drama took a worrisome dimension on Tuesday as unknown gunmen invaded Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, allegedly in search the Returning Officer in the election, Mr. Alex Anene. Anene had on Monday announced the result of the election he collated and declared the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) candidate, Dr. Chris […]

Ogun guber : I won’t step down –Olurin

Ogun State gubernatorial candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Adetunji Olurin yesterday foreclosed stepping down for his kinsman, Mr. Gboyega Isiaka, the gubernatorial candidate of the Peoples Party of Nigeria (PPN). He spoke against the backdrop of the outcome of a meeting of Yewa-Awori youths on Wednesday in Ilaro which urged the duo […]

Anambra REC, others face INEC probe in Abuja

Anambra State Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Prof Chukwuemeka Onukaogu, led other Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) officials from the state to face the panel probing the Anambra Central senatorial election stalemate at the Abuja headquarters of the commission. INEC Chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega, had on Wednesday announced that the commission was instituting a panel to […]

Ribadu carpets Buhari – Gives real reason ACN/CPC alliance collapsed

Fresh facts have emerged on why the renewed alliance talks between the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) and the Congress of Progressive Change (CPC) collapsed. Addressing journalists in Abuja yesterday, the presidential candidate of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Mallam Nuhu Ribadu laid the failure of the deal squarely on the Congress of Progressive […]

ACN denies pact with Buhari

Party relays story of alliance bid CPC snubbed my offer to step down, Ribadu alleges Our door still open, Odumakin declares Akande admits parley with Jonathan THREE days to the presidential election, the   Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) and Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) alliance talks have collapsed. The ACN, which confirmed the failure […]

Presidential election|: Why I’m backing Jonathan –Soludo

Former Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) governor, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, has been on the political turf a great deal these past few years – and it is not just because he was the flagbearer of the Peoples Democratic Party (DP) to the last gubernatorial election in Anambra State. The controversy that preceded his choice, the […]

Buhari weeps as presidential campaign winds down

Presidential standard bearer of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), shed tears while presenting his speech on the occasion, marking the end of his presidential campaign at the International Conference Centre in Abuja yesterday. Buhari, who was honoured as the ‘Noble Father of Nigerian Youths and the Icon of Nigerian Democracy’ […]

10 parties seek cancellation of NASS election in Kwara

Ten political parties, including the Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN), the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Congress for Political Change (CPC), have jointly called for the cancellation  of last Saturday’s National Assembly election in Kwara State,  alleging that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) connived with the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to rig […]

US, groups express satisfaction with election, praise Jonathan

The United States has expressed its pleasure at  seeing Nigerians exercise their right to choose their leaders in the April 9 National Assembly election, just as it said that the National Assembly  election held last weekend across the country  is only the first of three important electoral contests over the next several weeks. The U.S. […]

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