President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday said Nigeria could not maintain its leadership position in Africa without a free, fair and transparent election. The President spoke during an audience with a delegation of the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs at the State House, Abuja. “Several countries in Africa have had successful elections, and if […]
Men of the State Security Service on Wednesday evening arrested a printer in Mokola, Ibadan,with about 7,000 copies of ballot papers. The man, who was arrested in his printing press, was taken to the Mokola Divisional Police Headquarters from where he was later moved to the Criminal Investigation Department of the state police command […]
The Federal Executive Council on Wednesday washed its hands off the failure of the Independent National Electoral Commission to conduct the National Assembly elections on April 2. It said after its weekly meeting in Abuja that INEC, which it described as an independent body, was granted all its requests prior to the botched elections. […]
WIFE of the presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Hajia Aishat Buhari, has appealed to women to use their numerical strength to vote incorruptible politicians into office. Hajia Buhari, whose husband, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, ruled Nigeria as a military head of state between 1983 and 1985, yesterday urged Nigerians to use their […]
THE United Nations (UN) on Tuesday expressed the belief that Nigeria was on track in spite of the shift in dates of the general elections by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC.) The UN spokesperson, Martin Nesirky, made this known to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in New York on the sidelines of the […]
With nine days to the presidential election, President Goodluck Jonathan, the candidate of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), is most likely to win at first ballot, going by the latest results from the poll conducted for THISDAY by Ipsos, the world’s leading market research company. But on the down side, the ruling party may […]
By Muhammad Ajah, NNP – April, 2011 – In Nigeria, soldiers are feared to a large extent and respected too. This is a product of the military regimes under which the country was subjected for very long time after Nigeria’s Independence in 1960. Added to that, soldiers are naturally seen as the harshest of all […]
THE presidential candidate of Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (Rtd), has said his administration would ensure even development of the country and judicious application of resources, insisting that it was only corrupt Nigerians that were afraid of him coming to office. Speaking in Onitsha during his campaign tour of Anambra State, Buhari […]
Faced with Herculean task of printing more ballot papers for the rescheduled Saturday’s National Assembly Election, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has turned to local contractors to deliver 19 million fresh ballot papers before Saturday. The ballot papers are to replace those already used in many states during the aborted April 2 election. However, […]
The situation reports from the Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs) on the magnitude of the logistic problems facing the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has cast a pall of uncertainty on Saturday’s rescheduled National Assembly election. After a nine-hour meeting with the RECs in Abuja yesterday, sources told Daily Sun that the commission could not conclude […]
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