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Abia, Elections 2011, State News
Thursday, April 14th, 2011
A CHIEFTAIN of the Progressive Peoples Alliance, PPA, and candidate for Arochukwu/Ohafia Federal Constituency in last Saturday’s NASS elections, Mr. Nnamdi Orji, yesterday alleged that seven ward chairmen and coordinators of the party were arrested last Friday by operative of state security service, SSS, in a meeting in one of their leader’s house in Ihechiowa, […]
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Abia, Elections 2011, State News
Monday, April 11th, 2011
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has released the Abia State results declaring the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) winner in the three senatorial seats and the seven federal constituencies where elections were said to have taken place. The INEC had given an order that there would not be any election in Isiala Ngwa North and South […]
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Abia, Elections 2011, Party Politics, State News
Monday, April 11th, 2011
Former governor of Abia State and candidate of the Progressive Peoples Alliance (PPA) for Abia North Senatorial District, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, has rejected the result of last Saturday’s National Assembly election. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) yesterday announced Senator Uche Chukwumerije of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) winner of the poll in Abia […]
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Abia, Anambra, Benue, Elections 2011, Kaduna, Katsina, Ogun, Ondo, Osun, Oyo, Rivers, State News
Sunday, April 10th, 2011
Results of Saturday’s National Assembly elections announced on Sunday by officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission showed many Peoples Democratic Party heavyweights defeated in their senatorial districts and constituencies. The results also indicated that the PDP might lose its stranglehold on the National Assembly with its majority membership and a sign of the […]
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Abia, Elections 2011, State News
Sunday, April 10th, 2011
Orji Kalu Fails; Abaribe, Chukwimerije, Nwaogu Reelected Senators THEWILL. 10/04/2011 06:56:00 UMUAHIA, April 10, (THEWILL) – The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) today declared the three serving senators from Abia State; Senators Enyinnaya Abaribe (Abia South), Uche Chukwumerije (Abia North) and Senator Nkechi Nwaogu (Abia Central) senators-elect for the Senate. The trio are of the […]
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Abia, Anambra, Elections 2011, Enugu, Katsina, Lagos, State News
Sunday, April 10th, 2011
Rafeequat Arinola Onabimiro wins Badagry West Federal Constituency – Dimeji Bankole concedes defeat to ACN candidate – Oluremi Tinubu wins Lagos Central Senatorial seat with 202, 506 votes – Akinloye Hazeez Babajide of ACN gets 32, 473 votes to win Eti-Osa Federal Constituency – CPC has won the 3 senatorial seats in Katsina – PDP […]
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Abia, Elections 2011, State News
Sunday, April 10th, 2011
The National Assembly election in Abia State, especially in the Abia North and Abia South constituencies, was greeted by protests, allegations of ballot box snatching and intimidation. Security was tight throughout the state, as stern-looking soldiers and riot policemen in armoured vehicles took position in strategic locations. In Abia North constituency, which had the […]
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Abia, Borno, Elections 2011, Enugu, Imo, Kaduna, Lagos, NNP Elections 2011 Updates, Ogun, Ondo, Osun, State News
Saturday, April 9th, 2011
A major upset appeared to be in the making as results of the National Assembly election, conducted yesterday, trickled in from the states. The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) is in early lead going from results from Ogun, Lagos, Edo and Osun. In the results released so far, former President Olusegun Obasanjo who doubles as […]
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Abia, Headlines, Nigerian Police, State News
Tuesday, March 29th, 2011
A crack team of policemen from Ndiegoro Police Station in Aba, Abia State over the weekend foiled a fraud of N160 million involving a staff of a new generation bank with its branch on Cameroon Road, Aba and a customer. According to Daily Sun source, another staff of the bank had suspected a fraudulent deal […]
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Abia, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), State News
Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011
A gubernatorial aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Abia State, Chief Ikechi Emenike, yesterday, asked a Federal High Court in Abuja to restrain the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, from recognizing Governor Theodore Orji as the flag-bearer of the party in Abia State, pending the hearing and determination of a suit challenging his […]