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Elections 2011, Latest Politics, Top Stories
Monday, April 4th, 2011

The vendor who caused the fiasco that greeted the National Assembly elections last Saturday will face “judicial sanction” for breach of contract, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced. The commission blamed late arrival of materials for the postponement of the elections which has now affected the other polls. INEC is still keeping the […]
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Latest Politics
Sunday, April 3rd, 2011
Indications again emerged on Sunday that Nigerians workers might take steps against governors who have shown a reluctance to implement the N18,000 minimum wage. The President of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, Mr. Promise Adewusi, gave the indication of a possible face-off between the governors and the leadership of the workers when […]
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Elections 2011, INEC Politics, Latest Politics
Sunday, April 3rd, 2011
SHOCKED by the postponement of the National Assembly election, the All Nigeria Peoples Party has threatened to institute a legal process against the Independent National Electoral Commission. The ANPP said, in an exclusive interview with THE PUNCH in Port Harcourt on Sunday, that it was consulting with its lawyers with a view to dragging […]
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Latest Politics
Sunday, April 3rd, 2011
ENUGU-A Pastor and a politician said to be a chieftain of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, were severely beaten up by angry youths in Igbo-Eze South Local Government Area of Enugu State on Saturday for allegedly aiding the smuggling of electoral materials meant for the botched National Assembly election from Ibagwa-Aka police station. The cars […]
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Breaking News, Elections 2011, INEC Politics, Latest Politics
Sunday, April 3rd, 2011
The Independent National Electoral Commission on Sunday said the National Assembly election has been postponed again from Monday April 4 to Saturday April 9, 2011. INEC also said the presidential poll would hold on Saturday April 16 while the governoship and state house of assembly election would take place on Tuesday April 26. The […]
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Elections 2011, INEC Politics, Latest Politics
Sunday, April 3rd, 2011
The 2011 general elections took off on a dismal note yesterday as the Independent National Electoral Commission aborted the first election in the series. While some of the expected 73 millions registered voters were at the polling stations waiting to elect 469 lawmakers to the National Assembly, comprising 109 senators and 360 members of the […]
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Elections 2011, INEC Politics, Latest Politics
Saturday, April 2nd, 2011
President Goodluck Jonathan on Saturday said the Independent National Electoral Commission’s postponement of the National Assembly election would give the agency more time to prepare for better results. Speaking with the Nigerian Television Authority at his country home in Otuoke, Bayelsa State after the announcement of the postponement, Jonathan said his faith in INEC’s […]
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Elections 2011, INEC Politics, Latest Politics
Saturday, April 2nd, 2011
As 74 million Nigerians go to the polls today, to elect members of the National Assembly, chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Attahiru Jega, has promised that tough time awaits election riggers. The INEC chairman told editors and news managers, in a meeting in Abuja, that politicians who are planning to hijack […]
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Elections 2011, Latest Politics
Saturday, April 2nd, 2011
CHRISTIAN leaders including General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, CAN President, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor and Catholic Archbishop of Lagos, Anthony Cardinal Okogie have urged Nigerians to troup out en masse today to cast their votes in the National Assembly elections, saying that the ongoing polls are very crucial for […]
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Action Congress of Nigeria, Latest Politics, Party Politics
Saturday, April 2nd, 2011
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has described as barbaric and strongly condemnable, the manhandling of its governorship candidate in Akwa Ibom, Senator John Akpanudoedehen, by security agents who re-arrested and slapped him, after he was granted bail in the phantom treason charge against him. National Publicity Secretary of the ACN, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said […]