An Islamic organisation, Jama’atu Nasril Islam (JNI), has set up a four-member committee on the post-election crisis that engulfed Kaduna State.

The long anticipated April 2011 elections have come and gone. What remains now in the saddles of leadership is the reality of the challenges of having to live up to the various electioneering promises.

WITH today’s supplementary governorship election in Imo State, the curtains may have been drawn on the 2011 general polls but the implications for a host of contestants and political gladiators remain.

FORMER Federal Commissioner for Information, Chief Edwin Clark said yesterday that as President Goodluck Jonathan settles down to put in place his cabinet, he must not allow State governors nominate for him Ministers that will form the yet to be constituted Federal Executive Council, FEC.

The Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, has said it is not interested in the so-called Government of National Unity,GNU, being planned by the PDP-led federal government, saying it is satisfied with its role as the leader of opposition and a government-in-waiting.

DELTA State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, yesterday, restated the commitment of the state government to the well-being of corps members of the state origin serving outside the state.

THE Ogun State Governor-elect, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, has raised a 13-member transition committee to work towards a smooth transfer of power from Governor Gbenga Daniel’s led People’s Democratic Party, PDP, to Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, on May 29.

The European Union Election Observation Mission in Nigeria would soon publish its findings and recommendations concerning the recently held general elections in the country. This was contained in a statement by the EU delegation to Nigeria and read by its Head, Mr. David Macrae during a chat with newsmen yesterday

The battle for the presidency of the seventh Senate is shifting into a higher gear with members of the outgoing sixth Senate resuming their final days of sitting today.

President Goodluck Jonathan has congratulated all those who emerged victorious at the just concluded general elections, and promised that together, the present crop of leaders across the country would build on the gains of 2011 elections.

Elder statesman, and former Special Adviser to President Shehu Shagari, Alhaji Tanko Yakasai has enjoined Chief Olusegun Obasanjo and General Muhammadu Buhari to quit partisan politics now in the interest of national cohesion

THE Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in Kaduna State, said yesterday, that it was set to conduct the rescheduled governorship and legislative elections in the state.

President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday assured that the 2015 general elections would be improved upon so as to avert a repeat of the crisis that followed the 2011 presidential poll in which lives were lost.

By AbdulSalam Muhammad Millions of eligible voters in Kano Tuesday refused to stayed away from both the governorship and the state Assembly elections across the 44 local council of the state. Reports across the state indicate that there was a significant drop in the total number of women and the aged that turned up for […]

TODAY’s tranche of elections, the last in the series, in the on-going general polls promises a lot of interesting scenarios.