Month: March 2015

There are some mistakes the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has made at the presidential and National Assembly elections, which must not be repeated at the governorship and House of Assembly polls on April 11. […]

All Progressives Congress (APC) National Leader Asiwaju Bola Tinubu spoke with reporters in Lagos, shortly after casting his vote at Ikeja, the state capital. EMMANUEL OLADESU was there. What is your assessment of the exercise […]

Voting has been extended in both Yobe and Borno states by the Independent National Electoral Commission due to logistic, technical and security reasons. The Resident Electoral Commissioner for Borno, Samuel Madaki, disclosed that voting will […]

Certainly the much anticipated March 28 presidential and National Assembly elections may have come and gone but the echoes from that exercise is one that will surely linger for a very long time to come. […]

Sen. George Akume is the senator representing Benue Northwest senatorial district. In this interview with RUTH CHOJI, the Senate minority leader opens up on some state and national issues. What issues would you like the […]

THE shocker for the president was evident on nationwide television. For more than 20 minutes the president could not get his Permanent Voter’s Card, PVC matched by his fingerprints as the miracle device, Card Reader […]

The All Progressive Congress Presidential candidate, Muhammadu Buhari, has secured a crucial victory over his Peoples Democratic Party rival Goodluck Jonathan in Ondo State, according to results of the Saturday polls released early Monday. Both […]

Lagos—Early results in Lagos State indicate that the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari, is winning Lagos by a wide margin. Results collated in different polling units revealed that Buhari defeated Jonathan […]

The table below shows that the All Progressives Congress (APC) is leading in most key states across the country, with APC currently having 69% of the vote and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) having 30%. […]

To all intents and purposes, the com­ing days in the life of Nigeria will be very interesting, and Lagos, being the country’s economic nerve-cen­tre, will surely not be left out. Come March 28, 2015, Nigerians […]

Ambassador Aminu Bashir Wali, Nigeria’s Foreign Affairs Minis­ter, is one of the leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party in the North. A former ambas­sador to China and one-time Nigeria’s Permanent Represen­tative to the United Nations, […]

  Fellow Nigerians, today is not June 12, 1993, but it has all the trappings of that fateful day. For those who may not remember, let me repeat for the umpteenth time, that was our […]

There was a time when Nigerians actually enjoyed politics. The rules were clear, though some of them were still being developed to keep up with the fast pace of our development as a nation. But […]

The March 28, 2015, presidential vote has all along been presented in both local and foreign media as a battle of titans, a tough war. This is in keeping with media’s penchant for histrionics and […]

All credible independent polls predict a Buhari victory. Some with more winning margins than others, but all gave APC victory in four of our six zones with ma­jor inroads in the other two zones. This […]

One thing that sets this year’s electoral campaign miles apart from the previous ones is the overflowing stream of cheap talk – call it pedestrian propaganda. One is also astonished at the creative, even if […]

As the general elections draw close, the Minister of Ni­ger Delta Affairs, Dr Stephen Orise Oru, has given reasons Nigerians should not elect the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), General Muhammadu Buhari, […]