Tag: presidential election
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…