2027: Stop weaponising religion to manipulate voters, CISLAC warns
Rafsanjani also decried religious leaders being used by politicians to turn their pulpits to woo voters and mobilise political support, warning that the trend is not healthy for the electoral process and poses grave danger to Nigeria’s democracy, national cohesion and peaceful coexistence.
2011: Fayose urges youths to fight electoral fraud
The former governor of Ekiti State, and leader of the Labour Party, LP, in the state, Mr Ayodele Fayose, has called on the youths to engage old politicians in political contest, even as he urged them to mobilise themselves to fight against electoral fraud.
Nigeria’s future depends on 2011 elections – Eso
—Former Justice of the Supreme Court, Justice Kayode Eso, SAN, said yesterday that Nigeria would only survive as a nation if the 2011 general elections were free and fair
5 killed in fresh Plateau crisis
NO fewer than five persons were killed in the Plateau State capital, yesterday, in another violence which was sparked off by the burial of some of those killed in last weekend’s attack on Mazah, near Jos.
INEC Commissioners get postings
A DAY after they were sworn in by Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Attahiru Jega, the Rresident Electoral Commissioners, RECs, were, yestrday, deployed to their respective states of assignment while some serving RECs were moved to new states.
Oshiomhole seeks new revenue sharing formula
EDO State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole, Wednesday, called for review of the revenue sharing formula in the country to enable the component states and local government areas have more funds for development.
