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Adamawa, Headlines, INEC Politics, State News
Tuesday, January 17th, 2012
Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has postponed the Adamawa governorship election scheduled to hold this Saturday January 21. It is now slated for February 4. Similarly, the commission announced the postponement of the bye-election into the Soba Federal Constituency, Kaduna. A statement signed by the INEC Chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega hinged the postponement of the […]
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Bayelsa, Headlines, INEC Politics, State News
Sunday, January 15th, 2012
January 16, 2012 by Mike Odiegwu, Yenagoa Bayelsa State Governor Timipre Sylva has challenged the Peoples Democratic Party to expose officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission which the party accused of receiving bribes to exclude its candidate from the list of candidates for the February governorship election in the state. Sylva, in a statement […]
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Bayelsa, Headlines, INEC Politics, State News
Thursday, January 12th, 2012
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Thursday released the names of candidates of the 36 political parties for the February 11 governorship election in Bayelsa State, but was silent on the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its flag bearer in the election. The commission gave the ongoing litigation between the party and Governor Timipre Sylva […]
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Headlines, INEC Politics
Friday, January 6th, 2012
A team of experts constituted by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to review its operations in 2011 ahead of the 2015 general election, on Thursday, urged its chairman, Professor Attahiru Jega, to intensify efforts at the ongoing restructuring of the commission to make it a competent election management body. The team, christened “Registration and Election Review […]
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Headlines, INEC Politics
Wednesday, December 21st, 2011
Chairman Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Attahiru Jega, yesterday reiterated the need for the establishment of Electoral Offences Tribunal (EOT), saying it will help to fast-track prosecution of electoral offenders. Jega stated this when the German Ambassador to Nigeria, Dorothee Janetzke Wenzel, visited him. He said INEC would use the window of the expected amendment to the constitution and […]
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Boko Haram, INEC Politics, Latest Politics
Monday, November 21st, 2011
THE Federal High Court, Abuja Division was yesterday told how six persons suspected to be members of the Islamic sect Boko Haram allegedly procured 200 detonators and 55 yards of blasting cables with which they executed acts of terrorism against innocent persons between March 3 and July 20, 2011. Giving evidence in the trial of […]
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Anambra, Headlines, INEC Politics, State News
Sunday, November 20th, 2011
By ALOYSIUS ATTAH Sunday, November 20, 2011 •Onukaogu • Photo: Sun Publishing More Stories on This Section Chukwuemeka Onukaogu, a Professor of English and Literary studies, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife is also a Pastor in the Christ Apostolic Church (CAC) Worldwide. As the Anambra State Resident Electoral Commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission […]
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Governors, INEC Politics
Monday, October 17th, 2011
INEC Chairman, Prof. Jega From Chuks Okocha in Abuja A suit by the Independent National Electoral Commission asking the Supreme Court to decide when the tenure of five governors in Adamawa, Bayelsa, Cross River, Kogi and Sokoto States would end is causing anxiety in the camps of the affected governors. The commission is before the […]
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Elections 2011, INEC Politics, Latest Politics
Wednesday, September 28th, 2011
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), would today close its defence in the petition lodged by the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) before the Presidential Election Tribunal against the declaration of President Goodluck Jonathan of the Peoples democratic Party (PDP), as winner of the April 16 election. In the said petition, the petitioner was seeking […]
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CPC (Congress 4 Progressive Change), INEC Politics, Party Politics
Tuesday, September 27th, 2011
THE Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), on Monday, urged the Presidential Election Tribunal sitting at the Court of Appeal in Abuja to dismiss the petitio n filed by the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) challenging the victory of President Goodluck Jonathan of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and to uphold the result of the presidential […]
