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Elections 2011, Labour Party (LP), Ondo, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), State News
Saturday, April 16th, 2011
REPORTS across Ondo state Saturday showed that the joining of forces by the Peoples Democratic Party and the Labour Party swept the election for President Goodluck Jonathan who led comfortably in the election. Results pasted in different units across the state as at the time of filling in this reports showed that President Jonathan was […]
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Anambra, Elections 2011, State News
Saturday, April 16th, 2011
CHIEFTAINS and stalwarts of PDP in Enugu state virtually delivered votes from various polling centres within their electoral wards to President Goodluck Jonathan in Saturday’s presidential poll. Results released at the polling centres where the party chieftains voted last night indicated that Jonathan won convincingly with some delivering 100 percent of the votes to PDP. […]
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Anambra, Elections 2011, INEC Politics, State News
Saturday, April 16th, 2011
Former Minister of Information and Communication and All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) candidate for Anambra Central Senatorial District, Professor Dora Akunyili, yesterday walked into a warm embrace of party supporters in the boundary town of Amansea where she declared that whatever decision Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) takes in the impasse in respect of the […]
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Borno, Elections 2011, Nigerian Police, State News, Top Stories
Saturday, April 16th, 2011
The Nigeria Police have arrested four persons who threw an improvised explosive device at a police patrol convoy in the Borno State capital, Maiduguri on Saturday morning. The police said in a statement that the suspects were arrested at Galadima Junction in Lamisula area of the state capital around 8.30am. INEC and the National Emergency […]
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Elections 2011, Plateau, State News
Saturday, April 16th, 2011
There was a bigger turnout in many parts of Plateau State for Saturday’s presidential election with most logistic problems experienced during the National Assembly elections taken care of. Although the arrest of about 28 members of the Transition Monitoring Group (TMG) who were observing the election generated some anxiety, the election was peaceful in the […]
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Delta, Elections 2011, State News
Saturday, April 16th, 2011
WARRI- THE 10 election observers of the Transition Monitoring Group, TMG, who were held hostage by youths of some communities in Delta State, during Saturday’s presidential poll, were handed over to the police at the Koko Police Station, Koko in Warri North local government area of Delta state . Delta state coordinator of TMG, Oghenejabor […]
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Elections 2011, Oyo, Presidency, State News
Saturday, April 16th, 2011
In some of the results released at polling centres in Ibadan, President Goodluck Jonathan did won. At ward 9, unit 10, Mokola area of Ibadan PDP scored 219, ACN 65,CPC 33. Meanwhile, low turn-out of voters was recorded in virtually all polling centres in Oyo State during the presidential election. Except in Sabo area of […]
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Delta, Elections 2011, State News
Saturday, April 16th, 2011
WARRI- AT least, 10 election observers, working for the Transition Monitoring Group, TMG, were held hostage in three local government areas of Delta State by political thugs, who did not want them to carry out their duties of monitoring today’s Presidential polls. The swift count observers were still being held by the thugs at Oghoye, […]
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Elections 2011, Imo, State News
Saturday, April 16th, 2011
NO fewer than 20 persons, who indulged in various forms of electoral offences, have been arrested by security agencies in Imo State, the state’s Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Prof Selina Oko, has disclosed. Briefing journalists on Thursday in Owerri on recent developments in the ongoing elections in the state, Oko said the arrested persons’ offences […]
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General Politics, Oyo, State News
Friday, April 15th, 2011
A driver attached to the convoy of Governor Adebayo Alao-Akala of Oyo State, Mr. Rahman Ishola, was killed in a stampede at the Ogbomoso residence of the governor on Thursday evening. The death of the driver took place inside the compound of Governor Alao-Akala in Ogbomoso in the presence of hundreds of people who thronged […]
