FG won’t interfere in INEC affairs – Maku
THE Federal Executive Council, FEC, yesterday declared that is has no plans to interfere in the affairs of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, despite the lapses and uncertainties that led to the postponement of last Saturday’s federal legislative polls.
President Jonathan’s address to Nigerians
My Dear Compatriots, I address you today on the rescheduled 2011 General Elections which are now to commence across Nigeria on Saturday April, 9, 2011. By the schedule originally announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the elections into the Senate and House of Representatives ought to have taken place last week Saturday – […]
Law and leadership in the 21st century Nigeria
A casual reflection on the relationship between law and leadership reminds me about a point. Dr. T. O. Elias (as he then was-later, Chief Justice of Nigeria) made a few years ago
Polls’ shift: Why Nigeria’s social contract must not be endangered
That Prof Attahiru Jega-led Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, had postponed the all-important April general polls, which now hold on April 9 (National Legislative Polls); April 16(Presidential); and April 26 (Governorship and State Legislative) may not be surprising to critically observable minds in and outside Nigeria
PDP in panic over South West
THE Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, is said to be in palpable shock over progressing schemes by the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, and allied opposition political parties to get the upper hand of it in the forthcoming polls in the Southwest
Police arrest LP senatorial candidate, suspected 32 Boko Haram members
Barely three days to the rescheduled National Assembly elections in Nasarawa State, the Police yesterday paraded a serving member of the House of Representatives, Isah Usman Ambaka (Awanga/Nasarawa-Eggon/Wamba), after he was invited and detained overnight for allegedly importing a gang of 32 Boko Haram members from Maiduguri for alleged electoral violence.
