The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Ghana, Gambia, Sierra Leone and hosts Nigeria are participating in the week-long event, which started on April 14 and ended on Saturday.
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The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Nigeria batted 165runs in the first innings with six wickets and 20 overs at the event holding at the Tafawa Balewa Square cricket oval in Lagos.
Tayo Atoloye, who played in the national team for 12 years, said there had been a positive change in the sport since the inception of the new board last year.
French was in Abuja at the instance of Youth Initiative for Advocacy, Growth and Advancement, for “Watch the Vote Discussion’’ on lessons from Sierra Leone experiences in the just-concluded general elections in that country.
Bio was declared winner late on Wednesday with 51.81 per cent of votes and was sworn in hours later.
Ugbada told the News Agency of Nigeria in Freetown on Wednesday that extending the bilateral arrangement to those sectors would be of immense benefits to both Nigeria and Sierra Leone.
Ugbada told the News Agency of Nigeria in Freetown on Wednesday that discussions for more volunteers to be deployed in the country were on going.
“The Mission urges the National Electoral Commission to approach the concluding phases of the process with fairness, openness and transparency until the proclamation of the results,” the Declaration added.
The run-off was contest by an opposition, Sierra Leone People’s Party and the ruling All People’s Congress.
The meeting, according to a statement issued by a member of the ECOWAS Observation Missions, Paul Ejime, was held on Sunday in Freetown.
A statement issued by a member of the ECOWAS Observation Mission, Paul Ejime, said that Prof Amos Sawyer, Head of the Mission and his team, watched the counting process at Freetown’s Aberdeen polling Centre.
Conteh said that the commission continued to prepare for the elections; guided by constitution of the Sierra Leone, 1991; and the country’s Public Elections Act, 2012.
The CSOs’ resolution was reached at an extraordinary meeting of Civil Society Leaders held on Saturday in Freetown.
The party member, Ibrahim Sorie Koroma, filed for the injunction on Thursday, saying there was evidence of electoral fraud that needed to be investigated before the poll could go ahead.
Jonathan, who is leading the Electoral Institute for Sustainable Democracy in Africa Election Observation Mission, arrived Freetown on Friday.
The Polling Stations according to a document released by the commission on Monday in Freetown are located in seven out of 16 districts in the country.
The Chairman of NEC, Mohammed Conteh, declared the “progressive” result at the commission’s headquarters in Freetown.
A NAN correspondent, who was in Freetown to monitor the country’s general elections, reports on Sunday that Nigerian music was being played in most of the commercial taxis, radio and television stations.
INEC National Commissioner, Prof. Anthonia Simbine, who led the commission’s delegation to Sierra Leone to monitor the elections, commended the measures put in place by the National Electoral Commission of Serial Leone.
The airline made the announcement in a statement issued by its Corporate Communications Manager, Chris Iwarah, on Sunday in Lagos.