The Transition Monitoring Group, a coalition of over 400 civil organisations working for the entrenchment of democracy and good governance in Nigeria, had already added its voice to the growing calls for the embattled Senate president to step down from office
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An eyewitness told the News Agency of Nigeria that after accreditation and voting, the presiding officer of the Dabi polling unit counted the ballot papers and discovered that instead of 3,000 ballot papers, he had 2,500
As a prelude to the election, the Commission has trained 10,000 staff drawn largely from the National Youth Service Corps and tertiary institutions
Adeyemi, a former Chairman of the Senate Committee on the Federal Capital Territory, on Friday formally joined the APC
We compare him to Trump of the US because he likes to shock with his statements, he can be very irreverent, and very reckless.”
As 101 East presenter Steve Chao says: “Rodrigo Duterte is far from your average politician… unapologetic about his professed love for women, guns and fast bikes
According to Ubeh, his aspiration to emerge as a local government area chairman is only to support President Muhammadu Buhari in consolidating the APC change mantra at the grass root level
“From the moment I was made aware of the latest media enquiries on the matter, I immediately contacted UEFA to seek clarity. I did this because I am no longer with UEFA, and it is they who exclusively possess all contractual information relating to this query
Justice Kudirat Akano is to chair a seven-man committee on Asset and Liability Sharing, while Justice Akinwale Oladimeji will head that of Boundary Adjustment Committee and the former Executive Secretary of Ilesa East Local Government, Lanre Balogun, will head that of Take-Off Committee
Northern Senatorial District: State Chairman, Vice Chairman, Organizing Secretary, Financial Secretary, Assistant Treasurer, Assistant Organizing Secretary, Assistant PRO, Ex-Officio l and Ex-Officio II
He said any Electoral Offences Tribunal established under this present dispensation will only be used against opposition parties as the Department of States Services, Police, Armed forces and other agencies of the Federal Government were used during the Bayelsa and Rivers States elections
The Ondo State Independent Electoral Commission says no fewer than 14 political parties would participate in the April 23 local…
Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has advised the All Progressives Congress to accept its loss in the attempt to…
According to the statement, CPJ condemned Djiboutian authorities for detaining and expelling a team of BBC journalists from the country.
It said: “An election can be free and fair only if journalists can cover it without being harassed, detained or expelled
A terse statement issued by the Secretary-General of IPAC, Godson Okoye, on Thursday in Abuja, said Ameh remained the chairman of IPAC.
Okoye said: “The Inter-Party Advisory Council (IPAC) hereby notify the public that the duly elected and lawful National Chairman of IPAC is Chief Peter Ameh
This was contained in a statement issued by the FCT Police Command’s Public Relations Officer, ASP Anjuguri Manzah, in Abuja on Thursday.
The statement said the restriction was to allow for free and fair conduct of the rescheduled FCT Area Council elections
The ratification was made following a motion moved by Prof. Steve Azaiki and seconded by the member representing Sagbama/Ekeremor Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, Chief Fred Agbedi, in conformity with the party’s constitution
Olugbemi, who said he was surprised that Aluko could address the press on Tuesday and deny that he willingly attended the Sunday night meeting with Governor Fayose and that he spoke to the press under duress after the meeting, disclosed that he, out of genuine concern for peace, took Aluko to Eko Hotel in Lagos, the venue of the meeting
The counsel, therefore, urged the tribunal to forget all the grammar spoken by the respondents and face the fact by declaring his client as the rightful and legal governor
Team spokesperson, Remi Sulola, said the team arrived Dakar’s Leopold Sedar Senghor International Airport at about 3am on Wednesday and has already settled down and was billed to have a first training at the Stade Demba Diop on Wednesday evening
He stressed that Guyuk is in dire need of change-oriented people who are passionate about reviving the economy of the area to an enviable stage