Professor Pat Utomi, the Presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Mega Party, SDMP, has expressed no surprise at the spate of political violence in the country even as the election days draw nearer
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, is set to appeal against yesterday’s ruling of a Federal High Court, Osogbo, which barred Osun State Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, Amb. Rufus Akeju, from conducting next month’s general elections in the state.
The Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, has alerted Nigerians to a scheme by some unscrupulous and desperate politicians to massively purchase or outrightly steal voter’s card from unsuspecting Nigerians, in the run-up to the general elections starting on Saturday, as a way of disenfranchising as many people as possible in areas where they believe their party is not popular.
AS Lagosians prepare to elect their governor in the April 16 election, a group, the Forum of Gubernatorial Candidates in Lagos, FGCL, yesterday, declared its support for the re-election of Governor Babatunde Fashola
The Court of Appeal sitting in Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State capital has adjourned indefinitely the case instituted by the former governor of the state, Mr. Segun Oni, asking the court to review the October 15, 2010 judgement on Ekiti State governorship election.
Barely three days to the election into the National Assembly, the Action congress of Nigeria, ACN, in Osun State and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, are trading words over alleged plan to disrupt the election through violence.
THE National Council of State, NCS, yesterday rose from a crucial session which lasted over five hours with a resolution that troops be deployed in the streets 48 hours before the elections to forestall any form of violence during voting.
The security cordon around the Eagles Square in Abuja last Saturday only masked the bottled down excitement among the numerous partisan crowd that gathered for the President’s last open campaign for votes.
John udemba would be 25 years old on May 15, 2011. He belongs to the generation of Nigerians born seven years before the 1993 general elections. Apart from the 1999 and April 2007 elections, Udemba has not witnessed any other general election
The Nigerian Communications Satellite (NIGCOMSAT) last week inaugurated a service compact unit, tagged ServiCom. The unit according to the satellite company was in order to optimize customer-friendly service in line with global best practices.
Kwara State police command, yesterday, paraded 19 suspected thugs allegedly belonging to one of the parties
ABOUT three weeks ago, a mammoth crowd besieged Ago Police Division in Lagos, to have a glimpse of a man who allegedly killed his brother-in-law and tucked his remains inside a plastic container. The incident which occurred Friday, March 5, threw the entire area into panic when the alleged assailant turned out to be a popular boutique owner on Okota road.
NIGERIAN women who are always at the receiving end of any national crisis are leaving nothing to chance in the efforts to have free, fair, transparent and acceptable elections come April. Recently, an interfaith, non-partisan and non-profit organisation
Apparently showing concern over the poor quality of telecom services that has bedeviled the telecom industry in recent times, the Business Unit Manager, Weco Systems International Ltd, Mr Sidney Ogueri, has said that the operators should as a matter of urgency, begin to think of outsourcing most of their services.
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