Ebonyi State Governor, Martin Elechi yesterday shunned the presidential campaign train of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), led by the party Chairman, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu as the team was turned back at the gate of the Government House. The team including the presidential candidate, Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau was denied entry by security operatives, claiming […]
Ahead of the April 2011 general elections and and the need for the peoples votes to count, the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) is putting in place a high-powered meeting of former security chiefs of northern extraction to tackle the worsening security situation in the country, particularly in the North. The Forum, at one of its […]
Following reports of sharp practices among the electoral officers during past elections, Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Attahiru Jega yesterday summoned the electoral officers across the federation to a meeting warning that any of them caught conniving with politicians in the April polls will be prosecuted and sent to jail. Jega […]
THE presidency is said to have uncovered plot by some opposition figures to discredit the process leading to the conduct of the April general election, even before the elections are conducted. Sources told the Nigerian Tribune that the government had uncovered plans by certain opposition leaders to push negative stuff about the elections into some […]
The Chairman, Senate Committee on Finance and former governor of Kaduna State, Senator Ahmed Mohammed Makarfi, has predicted that during the forthcoming general election in Nigeria, the people may likely vote for individuals and not necessarily political parties. In an interview with newsmen in Kaduna, Makarfi said he believed that the election was going to […]
In contemporary state system, ultimate power lies with the military, not so much for its famed discipline and cohesive structure, but because it monopolises access to organised, purposeful and legitimate violence. Among other defining characteristics of the modern state, which includes definitive and delineable territories, the military is the most decisive guarantor of the state, […]
Less than a month to the general elections, major political parties are violating the Independent National Electoral Commission’s rules on campaigns. Investigations by our correspondent on Friday in Abuja showed that political parties had been violating INEC’s rules on the conduct of political parties at campaigns. But the Chief Press Secretary to the INEC Chairman, […]
Indications have emerged that President Goodluck Jonathan and the Peoples Democratic Party have begun moves to neutralise the strength of the Congress for Progressive Change presidential candidate, Gen. Mohammadu Buhari, in the North-West ahead of the April presidential poll. SATURDAY PUNCH investigations on Friday showed that the President and the party had intensified pressure on […]
THE Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has come under pressure not to publish the list of names of influential politicians who were involved in multiple registration during the voter registration exercise held in the country recently. Investigation by Saturday Tribune revealed that notable politicians, who knew their culpability in the multiple registration saga could mar […]
T emerged in Abuja on Thursday that the campaign organisation of President Goodluck Jonathan and the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) may shun the planned presidential debate as a result of the failure of opposition parties to join the presidential campaign train. Sources told the Nigerian Tribune that the president’s men believed that […]
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