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Elections 2011, Governors, Imo, Latest Politics, NNP Elections 2011 Updates, State News
Friday, May 6th, 2011
As events in Imo State increasingly indicate that Governor Ikedi Ohakim may lose his treasured throne tonight as the gubernatorial election in Imo State concludes, the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Attahiru Jega, has assured SaharaReporters that contrary to one of our earlier reports, he is in Abuja, not the United […]
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Elections 2011, Imo, Latest Politics, NNP Elections 2011 Updates, State News
Friday, May 6th, 2011
Today’s “Supplementary Elections” called by INEC to complete Imo’s “inconclusive” gubernatorial elections ran into troubled waters in Oguta local government area in the state as election materials failed to arrive the area on time. It was not clear what happened to the materials as at the time of filling this report but women in the […]
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Elections 2011, Governors, Imo, NNP Elections 2011 Updates, State News
Thursday, May 5th, 2011
The leadership of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, obviously took the gubernatorial polls in Imo State for granted. They believed that they had the structures, as well as completed and on_going projects executed by the present administration as their testimonial. Events have since shown that it was their biggest mistake. The opposition parties took […]
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Headlines, Imo, INEC Politics, State News
Thursday, May 5th, 2011
Some staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, serving in Imo State have been suspended from office and others charged to court for alleged complicity in the political stalemate in the state. The supervisory Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, for Imo State, Aniedi Abasi Ikoiwak, who disclosed this Thursday in Owerri while briefing the press, […]
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Bauchi, Governors, Niger Delta, NYSC (National Youth Service Corp)
Thursday, May 5th, 2011
The Ijaw Monitoring Group, IMG, has berated Governor Isa Yuguda of Bauchi State for his alleged comment on the killing of several National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, members serving in the Northern part of the country. It will be recalled that Governor Yuguda was quoted last week as saying that the killers of the NYSC […]
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Governors, Headlines, Oyo, State News
Thursday, May 5th, 2011
Members of the Oyo State Council of Obas and Chiefs rose from an emergency meeting on Wednesday and rejected the Tuesday amendment of the council’s enabling law which makes its chairmanship rotational. Governor Adebayo Alao-Akala had on Tuesday signed the law which was passed by the state House of Assembly. The law stops the Alaafin […]
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Headlines, Imo, State News
Thursday, May 5th, 2011
The Imo State political logjam has taken a strange twist as the All Progressives Grand Alliance and its governorship candidate, Chief Rochas Okorocha, on Wednesday invoked the jurisdiction of the Federal High Court in Abuja to stop the Independent National Electoral Commission from conducting supplementary elections slated for the state onFriday. They warned that […]
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Governors, State News, Zamfara
Thursday, May 5th, 2011
For those who follow the political situation in Zamfara State, it was not by surprise when son in-law, Abdulaziz Abubakar Yari, defeated his farther in-law, out-going Governor Mamuda Aliyu Shinkafi in the April 26 governorship polls. The battle was not just between the All Nigeria Peoples Party [ANPP] and the [Peoples Democratic Party [PDP], but […]
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Abia, Governors, State News
Thursday, May 5th, 2011
The Court of Appeal on The Court of Appeal on WednThe Court of Appeal on Wednesday granted an accelerated hearing in the appeal brought by a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and governThe Court of Appeal on Wednesday granted an accelerated hearing in the appeal brought by a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic […]
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Governors, Latest Politics, Muhammadu Buhari (1983-85, 2015 - 2023), Niger, Presidency, State News
Thursday, May 5th, 2011
Buhari Photo: Sun News Publishing More Stories on This Section Presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) in the April general elections, General Muhammadu Buhari, has said that Governor Babangida Aliyu of Niger State is unfit to hold a responsible office in Nigeria. Governor Aliyu had lashed out at the former head of […]
