Tag: presidential election
36,204 Security Personnel For Lagos Polls Duties
Oluwasanmi Joseph As the country prepares for Presidential election on Saturday, the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Kayode Aderanti and…
Vote Wisely On Saturday
It is less than 48 hours to the crucial Presidential and National Assembly elections. The polls scheduled to hold on…
Court fails to stop Buhari’s presidential bid
Nnamdi Felix/Abuja A legal plot to stop the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress from contesting the 28 March…
What State Will Decide The Presidential Elections – Poll
Political analysts say votes in five states could decide the outcome of the forthcoming presidential election. The states are, Lagos,…
Five key battlegrounds in Nigeria’s general election
by Ben SIMON/AFP Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country and top economy, holds general elections on March 28, in what is…
Security Agencies And The Presidential Election
The success or failure of Saturday’s Presidential and National Assembly elections will largely depend on the ability of security agencies…
Between Jega And Police IG
As Nigerians prepare to perform their civic duty by casting their ballot for their preferred presidential and National Assembly candidates…
Election: Lagos Residents Stockpile Food
Cyriacus Izuekwe As Nigerians prepare for the presidential election coming up on Saturday, residents of Lagos State, western Nigeria, have…
Buhari And 2015: The Battle Is Not Yours But God’s
By Joe Igbokwe For all intents and purposes, I foresee a serious infighting in the household of PDP that may…
Presidential Debate: Challenging The Challenger
By Joe Onwukeme Challengers don’t let things remain the way they are, they are advocates of change and will go…
The Abuja Peace Accord: Matters Arising
By Femi Ogunshola On Jan. 14, the presidential candidates of the 14 political parties that are participating in the March…
How, When And Why Did Jega Become PDP’s Mortal Enemy?
By Peter Clever Opara Like joke, like joke, as the Nigerian lingo goes, Prof. Attahiru Jega, the Chairman of INEC…
If We Don’t Kill Corruption, It Will Kill Us —Buhari
Eromosele Ebhomele Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Muhammadu Buhari, Wednesday night noted that the high rate of…
Jonathan: The New Maradona
The role President Goodluck Jonathan is now playing through his proxies in Nigeria’s electoral process may soon earn him the…
PDP’s Dangerous Campaign, Nigeria’s Threshold Of Change
By Peter Claver Oparah Going into the elections, Nigerians are deeply divided along tribal, ethnic and religious lines. More than…
Southerners Flee Northern Nigeria
Maduabuchi Nmeribeh/Kano Ahead of Nigeria’s 14 February presidential poll, southerners resident in the North are fleeing the region in droves,…
Don’t Vote For Jonathan, Soyinka Lists Reasons
Simon Ateba Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, declared on Thursday that no one should vote for the continuation of President…
Valentine’s Day And A Presidential Election
By Tayo Ogunbiyi Many years after his death, inspiring words and writings of the late American human rights activist, Martins…
Plot To Shift Elections Thickens
Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja The plot to get the Independent National Electoral Commission shift the presidential election slated for Saturday, 14 February…
Lagos Now Has 5.9m Registered Voters –INEC
Kazeem Ugbodaga The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, says Lagos State now has 5.9 million registered voters ahead of next…
APC, PDP Supporters Must Sheathe Their Swords
The animosity between supporters of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, and those of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has reached…
Election debates will help Nigerians choose better candidate – NEDG
The Board of Trustees, Nigeria Elections Debate Group (NEDG), said in Abuja on Thursday that debates would enable the electorate…
House To House Campaign Group Drums Supports For Jonathan
Taiwo Adelu With about three weeks to the 14 February presidential poll, President Goodluck Jonathan’s re-election bid has received a…
Zambia: Opposition candidate cries poll fraud
One of the frontrunners in Zambia’s presidential elections cried fraud just hours after polling stations opened Tuesday in a tightly…
Zambians vote today to replace ex-president Sata
by Susan NJANJI/AFP Zambia goes to the polls Tuesday in a tightly contested race to elect a president after a…
Presidential Election Challenges
The Nigerian Presidential Election is just 26 days away, but myriad of problems still persist at the Independent National Electoral…
Opposition candidate beats Sri Lankan president in poll
Sri Lanka’s Mahinda Rajapakse has conceded defeat in presidential elections, officials said Friday, after a bitter campaign that saw Asia’s…
Essebsi wins Tunisia’s first free presidential vote
Veteran anti-Islamist politician Beji Caid Essebsi was declared the winner of Tunisia’s first free presidential election on Monday, capping off…
Presidential campaign gets under way in Tunisia
Campaigning opened Saturday for a presidential election in Tunisia, the birthplace of the Arab Spring, with secularist Beji Caid Essebsi…
APC will win presidential election
Some members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Wednesday in Abuja expressed optimism that the party would win the…