Ahead of Monday’s National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), a forum of Non-National Working Committee but NEC members have withdrawn their initial support for the controversial tenure elongation. The forum had earlier expressed support for the current NWC led by Chief John Oyegun to be given another 12 months tenure extension. But at a Read More
Egypt’s pro-government media say preliminary results of this week’s presidential election show a landslide win for President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, who faced no serious challenge, and a turnout hovering around 40%. Vote counting began after polls closed late on Wednesday, wrapping up three days of voting. Official results are expected on April 2. Of the 59.7 million registered voters, the Al Read More
What is in a sequence of elections? You wonder! The furore in the Senate on this gave cause for concern. But, the defunct National Party of Nigeria, in the Second Republic, reversed the earlier sequence of voting, introduced by the outgone military regime. The presidential election was moved forward from the rear. The result created a bandwagon effects on subsequent Read More
Justice Ahmed Mohammed of the Federal High Court Abuja, yesterday, threw out an application by Action Peoples Party in which it sought to join the election sequence suit instituted by Accord Party in respect of the 2019 election sequence. Action Peoples Party had through its lawyer, Mr. Kingdom Okere, argued that its interest would be affected by the outcome of Read More
Ilorin An Abuja based advocacy group ‘‘One adult One Youth” yesterday took its sensitisation campaign on the ongoing registration of permanent voters card card (PVC) to Ilorin, Kwara state capital with an admonition that the youth cannot win election on social media. President of the group, Miss Ogbole Ene Lilian, who spoke with journalists in Ilorin shortly after embarking on Read More
UN envoy GhassanSalame said on Wednesday he hoped for elections in Libya by the end of 2018 but that conditions in the strife-torn country were not yet ready for polling. “There are several conditions. For the time being, we have only achieved one: the start of voter registration,” the UN envoy for Libya told a news conference in Tripoli. Last Read More
Party agents and observers taking notes, during the collation of results for the Anambra state governorship election at the INEC Headquarters in Awka, yesterday Photo: Johnson Udeani/NAN
By Donald Iorchir Abuja All Progressives Grand Alliance in the Federal Capital Territory has decried the outcome of the Saturday’s election across the six area councils, accusing the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Independent Electoral Commission of manipulating results in three councils. In an interview with the FCT APGA’s party chairman, Okoli Philip Chukwuebuka, said the party won with Read More
—- Accept results, Catholic bishops tell candidates By Emeka Nze, Ameh Ejekwuonyilo and John Oba, Abuja The All Progressives Congress (APC) has taken a convenient lead in the 2015 presidential election going by the results announced last night by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). This translates into the party’s presidential candidate, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), mulling a comfortable victory. Read More
By Emeka Nze and Ameh Ejekwuonyilo Abuja The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) yesterday debunked claims of being under pressure to declare the 2015 presidential and National Assembly election results, calling on Nigerians to expect the results of Saturday’s polls today. The chairman of the commission, Prof. Attahiru Jega, who made this remark during a post-election press briefing in Abuja, Read More
JOHN NWOKOCHA articulates the burden of Nigerians waiting for the final result of Saturday’s presidential election. March 28, the presidential and national Assembly polls were held across Nigeria with remarkable success. For the first time in general elections a new technology known as Card Reader machine was introduced to enhance the credibility and overall success of the elections. It would Read More
Chief Chekwas Okorie is the presidential candidate of the United Progressive Party (UPP). In this interview with Ezrel Tabiowo, he says that the results that will be announced by INEC will not be the final outcome to determine who becomes Nigeria’s next president. Chekwas is optimistic that UPP will emerge winner of Saturday’s presidential elections. Excerpts: How prepared are you Read More
By Abdul Raheem Aodu Kaduna Governor Mukhtar Yero of Kaduna state yesterday presented the sum of N203, 700, 855, 271 billion as the proposed budget appropriation for the 2015 fiscal year to the Kaduna State House of Assembly. The proposed budget tagged ‘budget of consolidation and continuity’ has recurrent expenditure of N72,788,841,776 which represents 35.72% of the total budget and Read More
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