Ijaw youths threaten to sabotage polls

EGBEMA Ijaw youths have vowed to make the April polls impracticable in Warri North council area over what they termed as gross marginalization by the state governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan. The youths accused the state government of failing to carry them along since its inception. They also accused Governor Uduaghan of failing to caution some […]

Aftermath of Postponement: Jega tracks exposed voting materials

THE Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, yesterday, launched a stock taking mechanism to ensure that materials already used in some parts of the country before the postponement of last Saturday’s elections were not used in subsequent elections. The commission said its electoral officers in the field would have to account for all the electoral materials […]

INEC contractors in trouble

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said contractors whose failure to fulfill contractual obligations to the electoral body resulted in postponement of last Saturday’s National Assembly elections would be made to pay for their lapses. Chief Press Secretary to the commission, Kayode Robert Idowu, confirmed to Daily Sun that since the contractual terms had […]

INEC’s Failed Vendor to Face ‘Judicial Sanction’

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 […]

Vote against anti-minimum wage govs, Labour tells workers

  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 […]

ANPP threatens to drag INEC to court

  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 […]

Pastor, PDP man beaten over alleged electoral materials’ smuggling

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 […]

Breaking News: INEC Postpones NASS election Again to April 9

  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 […]

National shame as INEC postpones election

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 […]

Postponement of National Assembly election okay –Jonathan

  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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