In yet another of the many missteps that have become the hallmark of the Goodluck Jonathan administration, the police, acting on a presidential order, on Monday detained four journalists with the Abuja-based Leadership newspapers. Their arrest came after their newspaper published a story, on 3 April, that President Jonathan had, in a leaked memo, issued [...]
By Odunayo Joseph There is no doubt that the ossified profligacy and the reckless urge for sharing rather than baking of the national cake has become the hallmark of governance at all levels in Nigeria. One of the highlights of the report of the House of Representatives on fuel subsidy fraud, as published on the [...]
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC on Monday further stirred controversies over the use of acronym ‘APC’, with its denial of African Peoples Congress registration as a political party. African Peoples Congress is generally regarded as a spoof formed to stop the electoral commission from registering All Progressives Congress, the name of the new political [...]
Mr Abubakar Jibrin of ANPP has won the March 16 chairmanship election in GwaGwalada Area Council of Nigeria’s Federal capital territory. Jibrin polled 11,596 to beat Mr Adamu Mustapha (PDP) who scored 11,502 votes. Dr. Clement Chup, the Returning Officer, who declared the results, said a total of 27,547 votes were cast, 1,615 rejected and [...]
A Nigerian lawyer, Nwokorie Samuel Chinedu has revealed that he was paid N80,000, about $500, in two instalments by a PDP youth leader, to inform the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC about the intention of the controversial African Peoples Congress (APC), to seek registration. Nwokorie, told TheNation newspaper that he was hired by Ugochinyere Ikenga [...]
The FCT Abuja Resident Electoral Commissioner of INEC, Mr. Godwin Kwanga, said on Wednesday that the commission was ready to conduct elections for the six area councils on 16 March. Kwanga gave the assurance at the stakeholder’s forum on the 2013 council election with political parties in Abuja. “We can report that all the necessary [...]
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, stirred the hornet’s nest when it claimed that it has received a notice of registration from an omnibus party, African Peoples Congress, which has the acronym, APC. This acronym has for some months now been associated with the All Progressives Congress and INEC cannot pretend not to be aware [...]
