SIM card registration: As the uncertainty continues
Six months is inadequate, we should be looking at a minimum of 18 months; for instance, the total population of Ghana is about 22 million while the total subscriber rate is about 11 million and they are looking at 12 to 18 months for registration exercise
N74bn too much for voters’ register – Ekweremadu
DEPUTY Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, said, yesterday, that the N74 billion requested by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, was too much and that it was possible to reduce the amount needed to conduct a fresh register for 2011 general elections.
Henry Louis Gates and the slavery blame game (4)
AS the colonies became able to assume the pacification function, they could also assert their independence from the home governments; this they could not do so long as revolts of African captives, organised escape by the same and defence of their freedom endangered the colony and its economy.
News Analysis: Jonathan must put out the fire in Bayelsa
Yesterday’s lethal attack on the Yenogoa home of the Speaker of the Bayelsa State House of Assembly, Mr. Nestor Binabo, is another sickening addition to the orgy of violence eroding the tranquility of the state that prides itself as the Glory of All Lands.
American style primaries for parties
THE new Electoral Act has introduced the American-styled primaries in the election of candidates from the presidential to councillorship positions in the country.
Ilaje bye-election: LP fingers PDP over violence
THE ruling Labour Party, LP, in Ondo State yesterday accused the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, as being responsible for the violence that characterized last Saturday’s Ilaje Constituency 11 bye-election in the State House of Assembly.
