The Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) has turned down a paid television commercial featuring Malam Ibrahim Shekarau, presidential candidate of the All Nigeria People’s Party (ANPP) and Kano State Governor. The commercial, produced by the Shekarau for Nigeria Campaign Organisation (SfN), is adapted from the NN24 presidential debate, where Mallam Shekarau was deemed to have performed […]
President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday said he was confident the Chairman of the Independent Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Attahiru Jega will deliver a free, fair and credible elections despite the botched last Saturday’s National Assembly elections. Jonathan, while fielding questions from newsmen at a photo exhibition in his honour at the Yar’Adua Centre, Abuja, said Jega […]
The Independent National Electoral Commission appears to be undecided on the fears that it may not hold the National Assembly election on April 9 in Lagos, Rivers, Ogun, Katsina, Ondo, Jigawa, Anambra, Gombe and Imo states, as reported by THE PUNCH today. A senior INEC official had told the paper that the planned shift was […]
THE Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, yesterday, launched a stock taking mechanism to ensure that materials already used in some parts of the country before the postponement of last Saturday’s elections were not used in subsequent elections. The commission said its electoral officers in the field would have to account for all the electoral materials […]
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said contractors whose failure to fulfill contractual obligations to the electoral body resulted in postponement of last Saturday’s National Assembly elections would be made to pay for their lapses. Chief Press Secretary to the commission, Kayode Robert Idowu, confirmed to Daily Sun that since the contractual terms had […]
The presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Major General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), has accused President Goodluck Jonathan and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) of applying undue pressure on the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Attahiru Jega. In a statement released Monday by the spokesman of Buhari, Mr. Yinka […]
The vendor who caused the fiasco that greeted the National Assembly elections last Saturday will face “judicial sanction” for breach of contract, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced. The commission blamed late arrival of materials for the postponement of the elections which has now affected the other polls. INEC is still keeping the […]
Ahead of the rescheduled 2011 General Elections and in furtherance of his resolve to ensure that the Police do not compromise in the areas of rigging, ballot stuffing and snatching, the Inspector General of Police, Monday, ordered the redeployment of all the Squadron Commanders of the Mobile Police Squadron in the country. The redeployed Commanders […]
SHOCKED by the postponement of the National Assembly election, the All Nigeria Peoples Party has threatened to institute a legal process against the Independent National Electoral Commission. The ANPP said, in an exclusive interview with THE PUNCH in Port Harcourt on Sunday, that it was consulting with its lawyers with a view to dragging […]
By Jide Ajani, Editor, Northern Operations National Assembly Elections:Saturday, April 9 Presidential Elections: Saturday, April 16 House of Assembly/Gov. Elections: Tuesday, April 26The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, led by Professor Attahiru Jega, has rescheduled the voting dates for the 2011 general elections. Professor Jega made the announcement Sunday at the INEC headquarters after a […]
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