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Sunday, March 29th, 2015
From Collins Amadi – The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has hinted it has begun full investigation into the crises that rocked voting in Rivers State, South South Nigeria. INEC Chairman, Professor Attahiru Jega disclosed this, Sunday evening during a press conference in Abuja. Professor Jega confirmed that the complaints on alleged malpractices, have reached […]
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Sunday, March 29th, 2015
Just like he did in 2011 presidential elections, Gov. Rauuf Aregbesola has again delivered the Osun state votes to the presidential candidate of the All Progressive Congress (APC). The people of the state voted massively for the opposition Presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari. Results from the 22 Local councils of 30 officially released in the […]
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Sunday, March 29th, 2015
Results released from 15 out of 16 Local councils of Ekiti State, South Western Nigeria gave total victory to President Goodluck Jonathan and candidate of the ruling PDP. Although, former Governor Kayode Fayemi delivered his unit to the APC, yet the party lost in his Local Council. The results stand as follows: Efon PDP 5,699 […]
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Saturday, March 28th, 2015
FROM IGNATIUS OKPARA, Awka – Less than an hour that a bomb exploded at a polling unit in Enugu, a similar incident has occurred in Awka, Anambra state. The Anambra explosion took place at Atom a polling unit at Umuokpara primary school, Awka ward one. African Examiner gathered from residents of the area that the […]
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Saturday, March 28th, 2015
By Ayo Balogun, Niyi Adeyi (Lagos) and Collins Amadi – The Presidential election started peacefully, in some local government areas in Lagos State Saturday morning. Our Correspondent who went round local councils such as Agege, Ikeja, Ojokoro, Iju, Ishaga and Ogba in Ifako Ijaiye Local Councils reported that INEC officials arrived early with some of […]
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Saturday, March 28th, 2015
Ayo Balogun, Lagos – Poor logistics have marred voters accreditation in some parts of Lagos, Nigeria, with people expressing anger over the development. INEC officials arrived late to their duty posts while card readers in some polling units were not working. The preparation was shoddy as Lagosians waited for INEC officials to arrive in some […]
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Saturday, March 28th, 2015
Armed militias working for the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, have intensified their killings of All Progressives Congress, APC, in Rivers State. Scores have already been killed and several others marked for elimination. Specifically, PDP armed men target APC strongholds for attack using heavy gunfire. The Greater Together Campaign Organisation, the campaign outfit for Dr. Dakuku […]
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Friday, March 27th, 2015
Akuku Toru: PDP thugs hijacked materials and Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, personnel meant for Akuku Toru Wards 15, 16 and 17. The hijacked materials and men were taken to Freetown, a hinterland coastal community. The attack was led by two youths whose identities are known. In Tombia, in same Akuku Toru local government, PDP […]
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Friday, March 27th, 2015
*Asks President To Call Overzealous Security To Order On the eve of the presidential election, the All Progressive Congress (APC) Presidential candidate, General Muhammed Buhari has warned President Goodluck Jonathan to respect the Abuja Peace Accord by calling his security agents to order. Buhari, in a statement on Friday said on March 26, Jonathan and […]
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Friday, March 27th, 2015
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has proposed to the U.S. Department of Justice a repatriation arrangement to limit control or management of the $480 million forfeited Abacha funds by the Nigerian government to the extent necessary to ensure that there is transparency and accountability in the process.” The organization said this became necessary […]
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Friday, March 27th, 2015
Going by the assurance from the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Attahiru Jega, results of the presidential and National assembly elections will be declared within 48 hours. Jega who disclosed this Friday in Abuja during a joint press conference alongside the Director General of the National Youth Service Commission (NYSC), Brig-Gen. […]
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Friday, March 27th, 2015
By CHUKS EHIRIM, Abuja – The crisis rocking the leadership of Igbo communities in the 19 Northern States and the Federal Capital Territory[FCT], Abuja, took a new dimension last Thursday when the faction supporting the re-election ambition of President Goodluck Jonathan, purportedly sacked the President of the Igbo Delegates Assembly[IDA], D. S. Inyama, who they accused […]
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Friday, March 27th, 2015
A chieftain of the All Progressive Congress (APC) Emmanuel Deeyah has been arrested today (Friday) by the police at the state office of the Independent Electoral Commission (INEC). Our correspondent reports that no reason was given for the arrest but added that this one of the series of arrest in couple of days. An official […]
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Friday, March 27th, 2015
FROM IGNATIUS OKPARA – Less than 48 hours to the presidential poll, the Enugu state chapter of the All Progressive Congress APC, has raised the alarm over refusal of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC to issue its agents with accreditation tags for the election. It alleged that the action might be a ploy to […]
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Friday, March 27th, 2015
FROM IGNATIUS OKPARA, Port Harcourt – Governor Rotimi Amaechi, of Rivers state was Thursday evening attacked by heavily armed suspected political thugs believed to be working for the opposition Peoples Democratic Party PDP at Obio/Akpor council Area of the state. African Examiner gathered that hoodlums fired several gunshots at the governor. At least, two members […]
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Thursday, March 26th, 2015
The co-pilot of Germanwings Flight 9525 purposely crashed the plane into the French Alps on Tuesday, killing all 150 people on board, officials said Thursday. “We at Lufthansa are speechless that this aircraft has been deliberately crashed by the co-pilot,” said Carsten Spohr, CEO of Lufthansa, which owns Germanwings. Marseille prosecutor Brice Robin said the […]
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Thursday, March 26th, 2015
The Afenifere Renewal Group (ARG) has called for a violent free election, asking Yoruba people to remember the peace treaty signed on September 23, 1986 in which it was agreed that Yoruba nation will never war against one another. The group, in a statement signed by its Chairman, Olawale Oshun, said Yoruba people, before the […]
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Thursday, March 26th, 2015
By Niyi Adeyi, Akure – The Ondo State Deputy Governor, Alhaji Ali Olanusi, has dumbed the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the APC. Olanusi in a statement Thursday stated that while still being in place as the democratically elected Deputy Governor of Ondo State, he has decided to lead his teeming supporters and well-wishers into […]
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Thursday, March 26th, 2015
On Sunday, 15th of March 2015, at exactly 7.08am, Mr. Darlington Nwauju A member of the Greater Together Campaign Organisation, received a distress call from one Mr Geoffrey Nwowu, an uncle of his, informing him that the campaign billboard of Dr. Dakuku Akol Peterside, the All Progressives Congress, APC, Governorship candidate in Rivers State, mounted right in […]
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Thursday, March 26th, 2015
Achiever Peterson, Abuja – A few days to the general elections, the Progressive Peoples Alliance (PPA) on Wednesday endorsed the return of President Goodluck Jonathan for the Presidential election. The party which denied that it was being blackmailed, bribed or pressurized to adopt Jonathan said after the election the All Progressives Congress (APC) would be […]
