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INEC Politics, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP)
Tuesday, March 12th, 2013
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has accused the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of engaging in bare-faced lies and manipulation of facts by claiming that the phantom African Peoples Congress has applied to the commission for registration. In a statement issued in Abuja on Tuesday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the […]
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INEC Politics, Latest Politics
Thursday, February 14th, 2013
ENUGU—THE Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, is determined to conduct free, fair and credible elections in 2015 and beyond, the INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner in Enugu State, Dr Lawrence Azubuike, has said. Azubuike who gave the assurance in Enugu at a capacity building workshop which the commission organised for the commission’s staff in Enugu State […]
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Articles, Columnists, INEC Politics, Leonard K. Shilgba, PhD, NNP Columnists
Friday, December 14th, 2012
By Dr. Leoanrd K. Shilgba | Yola, Nigeria | Dec. 14, 2012 – The Nigerian constitution makes provision for national and state “independent” electoral commissions to organize, undertake, and supervise all elections under their specified jurisdictions, and to compile and maintain a register of voters. The Nigerian situation is so peculiar. The electoral commissions are […]
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INEC Politics, Latest Politics
Monday, December 10th, 2012
BARELY 72 hours after 28 political parties had their names deleted from the register of the Independent National Electoral Commission, indications emerged on Sunday that 24 more political parties might cease to exist before the 2015 general elections. The PUNCH learnt that INEC had decided that only 11 political parties would participate in the 2015 […]
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INEC Politics, Latest Politics
Friday, December 7th, 2012
THE Independent National Electoral Commission on Thursday announced the deregistration of 28 political parties thus sending their promoters off the political stage as the march towards the 2015 general elections gathers momentum. Affected by the deregistration are Pastor Chris Okotie’s Fresh Democratic Party; Balarabe Musa’s Peoples Redemption Party; and the National Reformation Party, founded by […]
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INEC Politics, Latest Politics
Tuesday, November 20th, 2012
-Punch INEC Chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega | credits: File copy The Independent National Electoral Commission Chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega, on Monday said the commission would soon embark on constituency delimitation. Declaring open a workshop for information officers drawn from across the country, in Abuja, Jega said the exercise would precede the creation of new polling […]
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Action Congress of Nigeria, INEC Politics, Latest Politics, Olusegun Obasanjo (1976-79, 99-07), Party Politics, Presidency
Saturday, November 17th, 2012
The Congress for Progressive Change, All Nigeria Peoples Party and the Action Congress of Nigeria took turns to carpet former President Olusegun Obasanjo and the Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Attahiru Jega, for their allegations against political parties. While Obasanjo had accused political parties of printing manifestoes for the purpose of electioneering and throwing […]
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Headlines, INEC Politics, Ondo, State News
Friday, October 26th, 2012
By Sam Eyoboka THE General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye, has described the re-election of the Ondo State governor, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko, as clean, transparent and peaceful. The clergyman made the remark in a congratulatory message by his Special Assistant on Administration and Personnel, Pastor Johnson Odesola, to […]
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Headlines, INEC Politics, Ondo, State News, Top Stories
Friday, October 19th, 2012
Security has been beefed-up in Ondo state ahead of today’s governorship election across the state even as General Officer Commanding 2nd Division Nigerian Army, Major Gen. Mohammed Abubakar deployed soldiers into the state to provide protection for “voters and electoral officials.” Addressing the men of the 32 Artillery Brigade Akure, Maj. Gen. Abubakar said there […]
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American Politics, Headlines, INEC Politics
Tuesday, October 2nd, 2012
FOURTY-two thousand two hundred party agents on Tuesday began training ahead of of the October 20 Ondo State governorship election. The training is being jointly organised by the Independent National Electoral Commission and United States-based International Republican Institute. The participants, drawn from the 13 political parties that will take part in the election, are expected […]
