A fresh wave of agitation loomed yesterday with the former leader of the Niger Delta People’s Volunteer Force, Alhaji Mujahid Asari-Dokubo, giving the Federal Government a week ultimatum to hands off in an alleged plan to rig the governorship election in Bayelsa State and install the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Timipre Sylva, as winner […]
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The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, yesterday, invited the All Progressives Congress, APC, to forward a replacement for Prince Abubakar Audu, its dead candidate in the inconclusive Kogi State governorship election, thereby throwing up fresh legal and political firestorm in the state. The INEC decision followed a pronouncement to that effect by the Minister of […]
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All over the world, newspapers are known for taking positions on contemporary issues within their environments in anonymously authored pieces that officially represent the views of the publication. That then explains why editorials command more weight than the opinions of individual writers, essentially because in the case of the former, the publication is putting its […]
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The Delta State governorship election petition tribunal, sitting in Asaba, has admitted four key documents, including card readers’ accreditation report, tendered by officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission. The accreditation report submitted by INEC showed that the number of accredited voters for the April 11 governorship election in Delta state was lower than the […]
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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has expressed its readiness to use E- collation system for the forthcoming gubernatorial elections in Kogi and Bayelsa states. E-collation system is used to transmit election results from the polling units and wards to ensure easy and transparent collation of results. The INEC director of Information and Communication Technology […]
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The Delta State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal has dismissed applications filed by Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), aimed at stopping the All Progressive Congress (APC) and its gubernatorial candidate, Olorogun O’tega Emerhor to bring key witnesses from INEC to tender relevant documents relating to the results of the April […]
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Chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof. Attahiru Muhammad Jega, has obtained an injunction from an Abuja High Court against Nigerian Pilot Newspapers and Nigerian Newsworld Magazine restraining reportage on him and his activities till further notice. Nigerian Pilot had on April 14, 2015 formally written to the INEC chairman seeking audience with him […]
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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Campaign Council (PDPPCO) has alleged that INEC Chairman Prof. Attahiru Jega is working with the All Progressives Congress (APC) ahead of the forthcoming election to rigged the elections. The Director of media of the PDPPCO, Femi Fani-Kayode has now demanded answers to the following questions “Why are the PVC […]
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An uneasy relationship now exists between presidency and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) over the reason adduced for the adjustment of the general election dates, TheCable understands. Attahiru Jega, a professor of political science and INEC chairman, had attributed the shift in dates from February 14 and 28 to March 28 and April 11 […]
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Some southern Nigeria leaders has asked the National Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Attahiru Jega to resign, accusing him of plotting to thwart the 2015 general elections by creating additional 30,000 polling units. Jega was accused of allocating 70 per cent of the additional polling units to the North. Led by […]
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