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More complaints about DDC machines

Posted by admin Elections 2011 Thursday, January 27th, 2011

MORE complaints over inadequate number of Direct Data Capture (DDC) machines, on Wednesday, trailed the ongoing voter registration in the Lagos metropolis, as it entered the 11th day. However, our correspondent observed that some centres had devised means of easing public tension by granting concession to senior citizens, who could hardly cope with the rigours […]

Corps member on INEC assignment drowns in River Niger

Posted by admin Elections 2011 Wednesday, January 26th, 2011

ONE of the youth corps members engaged in the ongoing registration exercise in Delta State has drowned in the River Niger. The corps member, whose identity was not immediately ascertained was posted as one of the ad-hoc staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to register voters at Oko, a riverine community near Asaba. […]

VOTERS REGISTRATION: Jega seeks fresh N6.6bn

Posted by admin Elections 2011 Wednesday, January 26th, 2011

FOUR days to the end of the voters’ registration exercise, Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof. Attahiru Jega, has requested for additional N6.6 billion to cover the period of extension of the exercise being sought. Jega also claimed that 28.5 million out of a target of 70 million Nigerians have so far […]

Voter registration: Senate summons Jega

Posted by admin Elections 2011, Legislature, Senate Tuesday, January 25th, 2011

The Senate has summoned the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Attahiru Jega, to appear before it on Wednesday (today) over the poor conduct of the ongoing voter registration. It also voted to amend the Electoral Act 2010 to provide for an extended time for INEC to continue the conduct of the exercise […]

INEC discovers four centres inside thick forest

Posted by admin Elections 2011, Top Stories Tuesday, January 25th, 2011

The Independent National Electoral Commission has discovered four voter registration centres in a thick forest in Anambra State. The centres were found six kilometres deep into the Nziko forest at Nteje, Oyi Local Government Area. The Resident Electoral Commissioner, Prof. Chukwuemeka Onukogu, led a team that included the state’s Deputy Governor, Mr. Emeka Sibeudu, to […]

DDC machines thieves are wasting their time -Zinox Boss

Posted by admin Elections 2011 Tuesday, January 25th, 2011

Chairman of Zinox Technologies, Mr Leo Stan Ekeh, has said that political miscreants or thieves, who made away with some DDC machines before or during the voter registration exercise are wasting their time, because they do not stand a chance of influencing the outcome of the 2011 elections. He stated that the raw data currently […]

INEC gets 4 weeks extension

Posted by admin Elections 2011 Tuesday, January 25th, 2011

Angry members of the House of Representatives were denied the opportunity of ventilating their anger against the leadership which hurriedly adjourned plenary after agreeing to extend the recess by another two weeks. Before the elongation of the holiday, however, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) was granted a leeway to extending the deadline for the […]

Buhari Considers Bakare as Running Mate

Posted by admin Elections 2011, Muhammadu Buhari (1983-85, 2015 - 2023), Presidency Sunday, January 23rd, 2011

As a back-up plan to the current alliance talks between the opposition parties, the presidential flagbearer of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, is seriously considering picking Pastor Tunde Bakare as his running mate in the April elections. The is even as the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) continues with its talks […]

Voters’ Registration: Unemployed youth sell queue spaces for N100

Posted by admin Elections 2011 Sunday, January 23rd, 2011

Unemployed youths in Damaturu, Yobe State, have found a new business: selling queue spaces to prospective registrants in the ongoing voter registration. Each space, according to one of the youths, who gave his name as Habu Shuaibu, sells for between N100 and N200. Shuaibu, who described the ‘business’ as ‘lucrative’ said he makes between […]

Voters’ registration: INEC to ask for more funds

Posted by admin Elections 2011 Sunday, January 23rd, 2011

TO extend the ongoing voters’ registration and ensure that would-be voters were not disenfranchised, Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega, may approach President Goodluck Jonathan this week for more funds. This came as some opposition political parties, weekend, opposed Jega’s decision to stop releasing grants to the parties and asked the commission […]