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2011 polls: Jega warns politicians

Posted by admin Elections 2011, Top Stories Friday, December 24th, 2010

AS 2011 general election draws near, the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Attahiru Jega has warned political gladiators to be mindful of actions capable of sabotaging the efforts of his commission to bequeath to the nation credible elections. Professor Jega gave the warning on Thursday, when he paid a working visit […]

2011: Imoke Emerges C’River PDP Sole Candidate

Posted by admin Cross River, Elections 2011, Headlines, State News Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010

Cross River State Governor, Liyel Imoke, has emerged the sole candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the 2011 gubernatorial election in the state. This followed the screening of aspirants for the party’s gubernatorial primaries across the country which held at the party’s zonal headquarters in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. At the exercise which […]

Govt tackles security lapses at polls, raises advisory body for INEC

Posted by admin Elections 2011, Headlines, INEC Politics Tuesday, December 21st, 2010

AN overhaul of the national security structure and arrangement to check lapses at elections have been initiated by the Federal Government. The new framework makes security agencies in the states the nucleus of planning and conducting elections in the country. In essence, rather than a single, top-down plan often developed in Abuja, the present approach […]

2011: Political parties threaten elections •Ask court to nullify INEC’s election timetable

Posted by admin Elections 2011, Headlines Tuesday, December 21st, 2010

THE 2011 general election may have started experiencing hiccups amid plans to stop the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from conducting the elections based on the timetable it released some weeks ago. Indications to this effect emerged on Monday, following a motion filed in an Abuja Federal High Court by some political parties, led by […]

DDC machines: FG issues fresh security directive to FAAN, others

Posted by admin Elections 2011, Headlines Tuesday, December 21st, 2010

The Federal Government has ordered that all cargoes arriving the nation’s airports must henceforth be taken to cargo sheds within 30 minutes on arrival. The order followed the theft of 20 Direct Data Capturing machines at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, a few weeks ago. The stolen DDC machines were part of the 132, […]

2011: In-fighting tears CPC apart in Kano

Posted by admin Elections 2011, Headlines, Kano, State News Tuesday, December 21st, 2010

One of the new parties making waves in the country, with amazing followership is the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC). As a new party, it prides itself as perhaps, the surest path to the nurturing of a truly democratic institution, capable of galvanizing the Nigerian electorate for the common good. Majority of its followers, who […]

Ohanaeze, Igbo leaders ask North to forget 2015

Posted by admin Elections 2011, Headlines Sunday, December 19th, 2010

The pan-Igbo organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, and some leaders from the South-East Zone have asked the North to forget the presidency in 2015 because it will then be the turn of the South-East to produce the country‘s next president. They said the South-East being the only zone that had not produced the president in Nigeria’s 50 […]

2011 elections will determine Nigeria’s future – Buhari

Posted by admin Elections 2011, Headlines, Top Stories Saturday, December 18th, 2010

Congress For Progressive Change (CPC) presidential aspirant, General Muhammadu Buhari declared yesterday that next year’s elections would determine Nigeria’s future Speaking in a statement in Abuja, Buhari said, “I am doing this (contesting for President) not for myself alone but for many millions who have hope in me and my colleagues, and in our programmes […]