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Election 2015, Elections, Governors, Headlines, INEC Politics, Rivers, State News
Sunday, May 10th, 2015
Except the five governorship candidates challenging the credibility of the April 11 governorship election in Rivers withdraw their cases from the election petition tribunal or fail to present material evidence like the one exclusively obtained by PREMIUM TIMES, Nyesom Wike of the Peoples Democratic Party, who was returned winner of the election is as good […]
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Articles, Columnists, Lloyd Ukwu, NNP Columnists, Rivers, State News
Sunday, May 10th, 2015
By Lloyd Ukwu | Washington DC, USA | May 10, 2015 – As an American educated lawyer, the use of injunctive relief in Nigeria has never seized to amaze me. In the United States of America, and certainly, in Nigeria, an injunction is a court order by which an individual is required to perform, or […]
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Akwa Ibom, Election 2015, Elections, Governors, Headlines, INEC Politics, Rivers, State News
Sunday, May 10th, 2015
Prof. Attahiru Jega As the May 29 handover date draws near, fresh controversy over the election results has been ignited between the Peoples Democratic Party and the All Progressives Congress in Rivers and Akwa Ibom states. According to two online portals, Premium Times and Sahara Reporters, the governorship elections in the two states […]
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Headlines, Rivers, State News
Monday, April 20th, 2015
Mrs. Udensi lied over Rivers elections – Peterside campaign outfit Recent views expressed on Africa Independent Television, AIT, by Mrs. Eno Udensi, President of a South African-based Non-Governmental Organisation, NGO, that elections in Rivers State were free and fair, have been dismissed and described as an afterthought from a biased observer. Mrs. Udensi, who, also, […]
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All Peoples' Congress (APC), Election 2015, Elections, Headlines, INEC Politics, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), Rivers, State News
Wednesday, April 15th, 2015
Dakuku Peterside The candidate of the All Progressives Congress in the Rivers State governorship election, Dakuku Peterside, has expressed confidence that the electoral fraud allegedly perpetrated by the Peoples Democratic Party during the elections will not stand. Dakuku, who spoke in a telephone interview with our correspondent on Tuesday, explained that it was too […]
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Election 2015, Elections, Headlines, Rivers, State News
Saturday, April 11th, 2015
The governorship and State House of Assembly elections are scheduled to hold today, April 11, 2015 across Nigeria. But the governorship elections will only hold in 29 states in the country excluding Osun, Ondo, Ekiti, Edo, Kogi, Anambra, Bayelsa and the Federal Capital Territory. The elections will be a follow-up to the presidential and […]
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Election 2015, Elections, General Politics, Headlines, Rivers, State News
Saturday, April 11th, 2015
Mrs. Patience Jonathan Wife of the President, Mrs. Patience Jonathan, on Friday said there was no truth in the allegation that she was pressuring the Independent National Electoral Commission and security agencies to rig the governorship election in Rivers State in favour of the Peoples Democratic Party. The state governor, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, had during […]
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First Ladies, Headlines, Patience Jonathan, Rivers, State News
Wednesday, April 8th, 2015
Mrs. Patience Jonathan The wife of the President, Patience Jonathan, on Wednesday visited her hometown, Okrika, in Rivers State. Jonathan’s visit is the first since the March 28 Presidential election, in which her husband, President Goodluck Jonathan, conceded defeat to the President-elect, Maj.Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.). Patience, who expressed surprise at the large turnout of […]
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Columnists, Headlines, Nwaorgu Faustinus, Rivers, State News
Saturday, April 4th, 2015
Rivers APC kicks; cuts short presidential victory celebration Nwaorgu Faustinus The Rivers State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress APC, has uncovered Chief Nyesome Wike’s, plans to pay a whopping N1 billion monthly salary from the budget of Rivers State to the First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, if he wins the April 11th polls […]
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Akwa Ibom, Election 2015, Elections, Headlines, Raw Politics, Rivers, State News
Monday, March 30th, 2015
Muhammadu Buhari, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), continues to lead incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) with a comfortable margin, even as controversial election results from Rivers and Akwa Ibom states were added to the national tally, giving a boost to Mr. Jonathan. Election observers as well as Governor Rotimi […]
