Issues with the smart card reader, delay in arrival of INEC staff and materials including violence in some parts of the country were among things that...
Presidential candidate of the APC, Muhammadu Buhari and his campaign DG, who is also the governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Amaechi have deferred on the conduct...
INEC has directed its officials involved in the elections to resort to manual authentication in accreditation of voters for the elections. This adjustment to its guidelines...
A man identified as Ozemena Odeta who allegedly snatched about 300 Permanent Voters Cards (PVC) from INEC staff has been arrested while distributing the cards to...
The official website of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has been hacked by an unknown group. The group, which identified itself as the Nigerian Cyber...
INEC on Friday announced the postponement the House of Representatives election in Jigawa State. Head of Voter Education and Publicity of the commission in Dutse, Alhaji...
There was fear and pandemonium, at the WTC School 1, polling unit in Enugu state, as an explosive device inside a car parked in the premises...
Presidential candidate of the APC, Muhammadu Buhari has done his accreditation in company of his wife, to return later to cast his vote. The exercise went...
The INEC card reader called to question the viability of the tool for a successful election, as the ones deployed to the polling booth where President...
The 2015 general elections beginning today, March 28, represent a major watershed in the nation’s history. Perhaps, for the first time in our democratic journey the...
The Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC) has asked the APC, and its spokesperson to Lai Mohammed to concentrate on logistics to win the coming elections, rather than...
The Nigerian Military on Friday, announced that it has recaptured Gwoza, where the Boko Haram sect declared a caliphate last year. The Military announced on its...
Nigeria is a school of paradoxes if you sit back and reflect on a number of matters. The most recent is the fulmination of former military...
The contractor in charge of manufacturing the Permanent Voters’ Cards (PVCs) and card readers to be used for the elections has been dragged into the skirmishes...
As the elections near D-Day, political manueverings, and scheming have been heightened, in some cases to ridiculous levels, where politicians accuse each other and government of...
NATIONAL BROADCAST BY PRESIDENT GOODLUCK EBELE JONATHAN, GCFR ON THE 2015 GENERAL ELECTIONS, FRIDAY, MARCH 27, 2015 Dear Compatriots, 1. As we prepare to go to...
President Goodluck Jonathan has filed an appeal against the order of a Federal High Court barring him from deploying soldiers for the elections without the approval...
Former military president, General Ibrahim Babangida (retd) has described as immature and unfair, hate campaigns being carried out by some people sympathetic to President Goodluck Jonathan...
The two main presidential candidates for the election, President Goodluck Jonathan of the PDP, and Muhammadu Buhari of APC Thursday morning met in Abuja, behind closed...
As part of efforts to ensure a peaceful presidential election, on March 28, government has announced a closure of the nation’s land and sea borders from...
President Goodluck Jonathan has stated that the south east region of the country will get additional states to equal other geopolitical zones if he is re-elected...
Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) has again floored opponents seeking his disqualification from the March 28 presidential election,...
Former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, who recently alerted the nation of rumours by the ruling government to set up an Interim National Government (ING) in place...
The Inspector-General of Police, Suleiman Abba, again reechoed his earlier stance, that voters were not banned from monitoring the elections, after casting their votes, but that...
Wife of the President Patience Jonathan, and the River State governor, Rotimi Amaechi tackled each other again as the first lady described Amaechi as a comedian...
The elections may not hold as scheduled, and if they do, the results may lead to violence, prompting anti-democratic forces, to stage a coup d’etat and...
Once again, another court of law has declared that the deployment of soldiers to maintain security and order during elections is unlawful and unconstitutional. Justice Ibrahim...
President of the United States, Barack Obama, and leaders of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) have stated their interests in the forthcoming polls,...
The All Progressives Congress has vowed to sue the Director of Media and Publicity of the Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Campaign Organisation (PDPPCO), Chief Femi Fani-Kayode,...
Deputy Governor of Rivers State, Tele Ikuru, has dumped his boss, Rotimi Amaechi in the All Progressives Congress (APC) and defected to the Peoples Democratic Party...
President Goodluck Jonathan has again reiterated that any talk that his government is planning for an Interim National Government (ING) is treasonable, and that government will...
Amid speculations that all may not be well between him and the APC, former vice president, Atiku Abubarkar has denied that he is contemplating going back...
Justice Ademola Adeniyi of the Federal High Court, Abuja has adjourned till Tuesday, March 24, 10 suit seeking to disqualify presidential candidate of the All Progressives...
Any governor or top politician, who tries to get in the good books of any Resident Electoral Commissioner (RECs) will have another thing coming, as the...
The Nigeria Labour Congress NLC now has a parallel leadership, as Comrade Joe Ajaero emerged president of the 23 aggrieved affiliates of the Congress, in an...
In the face of imminent death, fleeing members of the Boko Haram terrorist sect slaughtered dozens of women whom they forcefully married, before a battle with...
Joseph Agama, younger brother to the minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke was on Thursday morning kidnapped by gunmen in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital. This...
About nine days to the presidential poll, the Federal Executive Council has approved the full implementations of the main report of the 2014 National Conference chaired...
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has stated that he remains a committed member of the All progressives Congress (APC), even as he denied knowledge of the...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), chairman, Professor Attahiru Jega has restated that next week’s elections will hold as scheduled. This is even as the electoral...
Following his screening and confirmation by the Senate, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro has been inaugurated as the new State, Foreign Affairs II. He was among the eight...
Contrary to expectations, Presidential Candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Muhammadu Buhari, has said that he would never take part in any debate with the...
There are serious worries in the opposition APC over whether or not former vice president Atiku Abubakar is for or against the party. This worries stem...
Elections may not hold in north east areas liberated from the Boko Haram insurgents by the military as government structures still need to be restored for...
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) on Tuesday announced a reduction of electricity tariff by half. According to the NERC chairman, Dr. Sam Amadi, who made...
President Goodluck Jonathan; Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Attahiru Jega, and heads of the nation’s security agencies are presently in a crucial meeting...
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has stated that now the Boko Haram sect is being pounded by the multi-national military coalition is the best time to commence...
The political scene continues to heat up, with the major actors still throwing accusations at each other. Politicians from the major political parties seem to have...
Less than two weeks to the presidential and National Assembly elections, agitations to have Professor Attahiru Jega removed as chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission...
A Federal High Court in Ikoyi, Lagos State has declared that restriction of movements in Lagos during the monthly environmental sanitation exercise is unlawful, Justice Mohammed...
