Tag: Election Postponement
Election postponement: IPMAN directs members to reduce fuel pump price
The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN), has directed its members nationwide to reduce petroleum pump price from N145…
CAN calls for prayers, calm over elections’ postponement
The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Kogi chapter, has advised Nigerians to remain calm and continue to pray fervently for…
Election postponement: Lawyers express mixed reactions
Some lawyers in Lagos have expressed mixed reactions to Saturday’s postponement of the Presidential and National Assembly elections. In separate…
Election postponement has affected businesses – Abakaliki residents
The residents of Abakaliki metropolis in Ebonyi State said the rescheduling of Feb. 16 election by the Independent National Electoral…
U.S. stands with international community on Nigeria’s polls — Embassy
The U.S. fully supports the decision of the heads of ECOWAS and other international missions on the postponement of the…
Election postponement: Lagos orders schools to resume Monday
Following the postponement of the General elections, the Lagos State Government has asked all schools in the state to resume…
Election postponement a national embarrassment, INEC must apologise to Nigerians – Oshiomhole
National Chairman, All Progressives Congress, APC, Adams Oshiomhole on Saturday described the postponement of the Presidential election by the Independent…
Rights lawyer calls for calm over election postponement
A human rights lawyer, Mr Mohammed Suleiman, has appealed to Nigerians to remain law abiding by not engaging in acts…
Election postponement: Corps members express disappointment
Some members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) serving in Kogi, on Saturday expressed displeasure over the ‘late hour’…
Nigeria will lose more than N140bn over election postponement – Traders
Mr Ken Ukaoha, President, National Association of Nigerian Traders (NANTs) says the country will lose more than N140 billion due…
Abuja airport deserted in spite of elections’ postponement
In spite of postponement of Presidential and National Assembly elections by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) late Friday night,…
Elections postponement: Conspiracy against Buhari
Nigerians in Europe have described the postponement of the 2019 general elections as “sad, insensitive and a conspiracy against the…
INEC Chairman Mahmood Yakubu must go – Fayose
Following the postponement of the general elections scheduled to begin today by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), former governor…
Bride-to-be laments elections postponement
As the impact of the postponement of the 2019 elections continue to revebrate across Nigeria, Miss Rita Osawende, a bride-to…
INEC needs to be more credible in conduct of elections – Diplomat
Mr Otiteh Ikeadueme, Vietnam Diplomat to Nigeria, has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), to be more credible…
Benin residents shocked by election postponement
Some residents of Benin, Edo, have expressed shock over the postponement of the general elections by one week by the…
Election postponement may lead to apathy – Residents
Some residents of Akwa Ibom have condemned the postponement of the general elections by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC),…
Election postponement: We are shocked, says Ohaneze Ndigbo, others
The apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohaneze Ndigbo has described the postponement of the Feb. 16 presidential and National Assembly elections…
Elections: Atiku urges Nigerians to be patient
Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the Presidential Candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has urged Nigerians to be patient over decision to…
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Ayoola Lawal: We’ll Not Accept Any Further Shift Of Polls
Ayoola Lawal is the Scandinavian Coordinator for the All Progressives Congress, APC. In this interview with Daniels Ekugo, he speaks…
Election postponement, a blessing in disguise, says David Mark
Senate President David Mark, says the postponement of the general election has provided millions of eligible voters an opportunity to…
Religion, new dimension for another election postponement, says APC
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has alerted Nigerians to a fresh plot by desperate politicians to circulate leaflets, in mosques…
Any other election delay ‘unconstitutional’, says Jega
A further postponement of Nigeria’s general elections beyond the rescheduled polling day of March 28 would be “unconstitutional”, the country’s…
Poll Shift: Jega to face Senate on Wednesday
Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja Professor Attahiru Jega, the Chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will face the Senate on Wednesday over…
Elections were postponed to frustrate Buhari – NY Times
The New York Times, in another harsh editorial against the government of President Goddluck Jonathan of Nigeria, has stressed that…
I was not consulted before election postponement, says Jonathan
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan said Wednesday that he was “not consulted” on a widely-criticised decision to postpone national elections by…
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A Military Diktat and the Pitiable INEC chief
By Bayo Onanuga Professor Attahiru Jega, chairman of Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission cut a pathetic, pitiable figure Saturday night…
INEC yet to decide on election postponement
Independent National Electoral Commission says it is yet to make an announcement or decide on whether the February 14 presidential…
Presidency, PDP must stop funding election postponement, says APC
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has welcomed the statement by the Presidency/Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that they are not behind…