January Registration of Voters is scheduled to commence on 15 of January and end on 29th January, 2011 according to Section 9(5) of the Electoral Act, 2010.

General John Shagaya, former ECOMOG Commander and a Senator of the Federal Republic takes a swipe at politicians seeking automatic ticket, saying they are not on ground in their constituencies and states.

Isidore Uzoatu is a journalist , writer and businessman and is currently running for the House of Representatives on the platform of All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA for Onitsha North/South Federal Constituency of Anambra State. In this encounter, he answers questions on his political aspiration.
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The Goodluck/Sambo Campaign Organsiation alleged, yesterday, blackmail by the Atiku Abubakar Campaign Organsiation ahead of the PDP primaries.

Residents of Jos spent the Christmas eve in fear after two devices went off almost simultaneously in different parts of the city last night.Time was 7:30 pm. Some people were feared dead but the exact number could not be immediately ascertained.

Wrestlers of Bayelsa state origin who represented the country at this year’s Commonwealth Games in India, were rewarded by Governor, Timipre Sylva at a grand reception organised for the athletes in the state capital, Yenagoa last Wednesday.

THE Ikemba Nnewi, Chief Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu who was flown out of the country on Thursday for emergency medical treatment is now said to be responding to treatment and his condition is improving.

Justice Kunaza Hamidu of the Bauchi High Court has quashed a suit filed by the state government for the arrest of former Gov. Ahmed Muazu. Delivering judgment in Bauchi weekend, Hamidu said the ex-parte motion filed by the government against Muazu lacked merit and struck out the case.

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan Friday at Ayakoromo, Burutu local government council of Delta State charged militant leader, John Togo to voluntarily surrender himself to the military Joint Task Force, JTF, to save innocent civilians from unwarranted hardship.

The Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, has asked the Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Hafiz Ringim, to call his men to order in Kwara state, where it says the police are being used by the state government to instigate violence and harass innocent ACN members during and after the Oct. 30th council polls in the state.

FOLLOWING its victory in the Ikorodu II State Constituency bye-election held on Thursday, Lagos State chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP Mr. Setonji Koshedo has spoke of the party’s readiness to win the 2011 gubernatorial election in the state.

The governorship candidate for the Democratic Peoples Party(DPP), Chief Great Ogboru Friday stormed Asaba, Delta State capital for a rally, saying he was not comfortable with INEC’s delay in releasing the voters’ register.

The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has said it would tackle the issue of unemployment and restiveness among Nigerian youths if voted into power in 2011.

A vehicular movement in and out of the Bayelsa State Government House was yesterday temporarily obstructed as pockets of physically challenged persons barricaded the entrance in protest over alleged exclusion from Christmas largesse.

NEW YORK—PRESIDENT Barack Obama has placed a phone call to President Goodluck Jonathan, congratulating him over Nigeria’s leadership role in handling the political crisis in Cote d’Ivoire.