Tag: INEC
Accord Party Slams Nalado Over Remarks About Rivers Crisis
The national leadership of Accord Party, AP, has dissociated itself from a press statement purportedly issued by Mohammed Nalado on…
Nigeria registers 2 new parties
Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Friday said it had registered two new political parties. The INEC Secretary, Mrs.…
APC’s Registration, New Dawn In Nation’s Politics —Lawmaker
A member of the National Assembly, Yakubu Balogun has described the registration of All Progressives Congress, APC, by the Independent…
Hot Race For Anambra Govt House
Two coming elections, local government and governorship, make Anambra State a theatre of war of sorts The history of elections…
Registration Of APC And Challenges Ahead
After several months of twists and turns and seemingly insurmountable hurdles placed on the path of getting the All Progressives…
Excitement Over APC Registration
There has been excitement over the registration of the All Progressives Congress, APC, by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC,…
One North: A Professor’s Faulty Logic
Ango Abdullahi’s assertion that Northerners have enough votes to elect one of their own as Nigeria’s president is false As…
APC: Tinubu, others applaud INEC
Torrents of reactions have greeted the birth of Nigeria’s newest party, the All Progressives Congress, APC, an amalgamation of the…
INEC Registers APC As A Political Party
Nnamdi Felix / Abuja Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has approved the application by three political parties, the Action…
Imperative Of Credible Elections
By Ado U. Mohammed The standard of democratic practice in any nation can be measured to a large extent by…
INEC Must Register APC Now
By Joe Igbokwe Nigerians please in the name of GOD, tell INEC to register All Progressives Congress, APC, now without…
Court nullifies INEC’s de-registration of parties
Nnamdi Felix / Abuja Reprieve came the way of aggrieved deregistered political parties in Nigeria as Justice Gabriel Kolawole of…
APC awaits INEC’s nod soon
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) says the All Progressives Congress (APC) has met all the requirements to consummate the…
APC To Be Registered In 2 Weeks
There are indications that the All Progressives Congress, APC, would be registered in two weeks’ time. The National Chairman of…
PDP BoT Membership: 2 Chiefs Want Bode George Removed
Two stalwarts of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, in Lagos State, southwest Nigeria, have urged the Federal High Court, Lagos,…
4 Suleja Bombers Jailed For Life
Nnamdi Felix/Abuja Four persons out of the six suspected terrorists standing trial before a Federal High Court siting in Abuja…
Oguta Election, A Foretaste Of 2015 Polls —ACN
The Lagos State chapter of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, has said that the present concocted stalemate over the…
Zinox Technologies to supply card readers to INEC
Nigeria’s Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved N459 million for INEC to procure 17,000 customised and configured smart card readers…
Leadership, National Development And The People (2)
By Bola Ahmed Tinubu Now, we know that by themselves, elections do not constitute democracy. Yet, a nation cannot be…
Stop Politicking And Face Governance
The recent warning by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, against political campaigns by politicians and political parties ahead of…
INEC to Nigerian parties: stop the campaigns now
Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) against premature campaigns by political parties and politicians, with the 2015 general elections still…
Politicians And Their Obsession For Pettiness
By Comrade Akido Agenro Nigerian political class’ penchant for actions that heat up the political system is unbecoming of statesmen.…
Fashola Tasks INEC Again On Fair Role In APC Merger
Lagos State Governor, Mr Babatunde Fashola (SAN) on Saturday joined his colleague Governors from Ogun State and Imo State to…
APC: Change Is Coming
By Joe Igbokwe All over the world the only thing that is permanent is change. You buy a motorcycle or…
INEC debunks report on APC rejection
Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said on Monday that there is no truth in reports in some newspapers that…
ACN Denies INEC’s Objection To Use Of APC Acronym
The National Publicity Secretary of the Action Congress of Nigeria, Alhaji Lai Muhammed has denied the media report that the…
2015: Jonathan Yet To Decide —Presidency
President Goodluck Jonathan said on Tuesday morning that he has not endorsed any governorship candidate or authorised any committee to…
Fire razes INEC ballot boxes in Lagos
Ballot boxes belonging to Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission were among the items engulfed by an inferno at the Lagos…
Trampling On Journalists’ Rights
In yet another of the many missteps that have become the hallmark of the Goodluck Jonathan administration, the police, acting…
Let’s Blame Corruption, Greed And Impunity
By Odunayo Joseph There is no doubt that the ossified profligacy and the reckless urge for sharing rather than baking…