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Buhari picks Bakare as running mate

Posted by admin CPC (Congress 4 Progressive Change), Elections 2011, Party Politics, Top Stories Monday, January 31st, 2011

The presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change, Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on Monday picked the Convener of the Save Nigeria Group, Pastor Tunde Bakare, as his running mate in the April election. Buhari, through his spokesperson, Mr. Yinka Odumakin, said the choice of Bakare was based on the need, “to put the […]

Primaries: Akunyili begs losers, sues for peace

Posted by admin Anambra, Elections 2011, State News Monday, January 31st, 2011

FOLLOWING what was described as an in-house fence mending, most of the aspirants to elective positions who failed to make it during the recent primaries of All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, in Anambra State, yesterday, decided to support those who won the party’s tickets in the interest of peace and harmony within the party. At […]

INEC yet to request for N6.6bn – N’Assembly

Posted by admin Elections 2011, INEC Politics Sunday, January 30th, 2011

INEC Chairman , Prof. Attahiru Jega The Independent National Electoral Commission is yet to make a formal request to the National Assembly for the additional N6.6bn it needs to cover the cost of extending the ongoing voter registration by one week. The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Information and Media, Senator Ayogu Eze, […]

Buhari in VP Dilemma

Posted by admin Elections 2011 Sunday, January 30th, 2011

It’s Pastor Bakare Or Pastor Osinbajo As the deadline for political parties to submit their candidates for this year’s general elections to INEC expires today, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) and main challenger in the contest, would choose between Pastor Tunde Bakare and Pastor Yemi Osinbajo as […]

INEC is facing challenges with voter registration, Jega admits

Posted by admin Elections 2011, INEC Politics Sunday, January 30th, 2011

The chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Attahiru Jega, has admitted the numerous challenges being faced by the commission in the ongoing voter registration, saying that as the commission was tackling the challenges as they arose, the exercise would be successful. The INEC chairman, who stated this, on Saturday, in Sokoto while addressing a […]

Voters’ Registration: 5 foreigners nabbed

Posted by admin Elections 2011 Sunday, January 30th, 2011

The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has arrested five foreigners for allegedly attempting to participate in the ongoing voters’ registration in Lagos. The five persons comprising three women and two men are currently facing interrogation at the NIS office at Alagbon Close, Ikoyi. Comptroller of Immigration, Lagos State Command, Mr Ahmed Suleiman who paraded the suspects […]

Fake INEC Officials Arrested

Posted by admin Elections 2011, INEC Politics Sunday, January 30th, 2011

The Nigerian police, “A” Division, Ughelli, Delta state have arrested two fake INEC officials in Ughelli North local government area of the state in possession of some DDC machines. One of the suspects who gave his name as Mr. Samuel Amiaze said he is a youth corps member attached to Ekpakamre Secondary School, Ughelli South. […]

Voter Registration: How 8 Drowned in Bayelsa

Posted by admin Bayelsa, Elections 2011, State News Sunday, January 30th, 2011

Fresh facts yesterday emerged on the circumstances that led to the death of Eight persons on Thursday along the Nembe waterways in Nembe Local Government Area of the State with indigenes of the area claiming the deceased were non-indigenes inported by some politicians to register in the area. The indigenes of the twin cities of […]

Five die on their way to register

Posted by admin Elections 2011 Saturday, January 29th, 2011

Five persons said to be on their way to participate in the ongoing voter registration died in a boat mishap in Beyelsa State. The 12-seater passenger fibre speedboat capsised on Thursday, a short distance from Nembe. It had taken off from the Ogbia jetty before running into turbulent wave along the Nembe creek. But another […]

INEC Loses 20 DDC Machines to Thieves

Posted by admin Elections 2011 Saturday, January 29th, 2011

Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) may have lost no fewer than 20 Direct Data Capturing (DDC) machines to thieves who stormed various centres earmarked for the ongoing voter registration exercise. Some of the machines were reported stolen in the stores in which they were kept by the commission. Saturday Tribune findings, however, show that out […]