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At exactly 3.09, President Goodluck Jonathan and wife, Dame Patience, voted at his polling unit, Otuoke, Bayelsa State. Afetr casting his vote, he had this chat with reporters What is your impression of the process? I want to congratulate Nigerians for coming out en masse to exercise their right to vote. But I want to sympathise with the Independent National …

The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress APC) in yesterday’s elections, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), expressed satisfaction with the electoral process. Buhari spoke to journalists after his accreditation for the polls at Sarkinyara Ward A, Kaafar Baaru 0003 Polling Unit, Daura, Katsina State, at about 9.30am. Main opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate Mohammadu Buhari casts his …

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has extended voting in the Presidential and National Elections to Sunday. INEC has therefore directed all Resident Electoral Commissioners in the country to conduct election on Sunday in areas where there were hitches. The Chairman of INEC Committee on Information and Voters Education, Mr. Chris Iyimoga, who addressed the press at the Media Centre …

ABUJA– As Nigerians go to the polls tomorrow in the presidential and national assembly elections, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it will announce the result of the elections within 48 hours after voting. INEC Chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega who revealed this Friday, during a joint press briefing with the Director General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), …

ABUJA — The two leading candidates for the Presidential election scheduled for tomorrow, President Goodluck Jonathan of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and Maj-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd) of the All Progressives Congress, APC, yesterday signed another peace accord, 48 hours to the election, where they affirmed their preparedness to accept the outcome of free, fair and credible elections. The meeting …

London – Thousands of people gathered inside and outside Leicester Cathedral on Thursday in London for the reburial of Richard III, the last English king to die in a battle. Sherlock Holmes actor Benedict Cumberbatch, a distant relative of Richard, read the specially commissioned poem “Richard” by Carol Ann Duffy, Britain’s Poet Laureate. Queen Elizabeth said in her message for …

ABUJA—Chairman of the Independent Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Attahiru Jega, Wednesday, said he has no regrets for insisting on deploying Smart Card Reader machines for the conduct of the general election, saying he knew that the decision would attract unwarranted attacks on his integrity as a person. Would-be riggers the ones crying foul, says INEC boss Jega, who stated this …

By Igbotako Nowinta – Alltimepost.com Nigerian Bureau Chief Amidst uncertainties about the outcome of the March 28, 2015 presidential election in Nigeria, Edo State Chairman of the nation’s ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Dan Orbih said with confidence in Benin yesterday that the success of President Goodluck Jonathan’s transformation agenda will give him Aso Rock for the second time. …

The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) said Computer-Based Test (CBT) would be used to conduct examinations for applicants of the 2015 recruitment into the service. Mr Chukwuemeka Obua, the Public Relations Officer of the service, said this in an interview in Abuja on Wednesday. Obua said this was to prevent a reoccurrence of the 2014 recruitment where a stampede was recorded …

Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country and top economy, holds general elections on March 28, in what is expected to be the closest vote since independence from Britain in 1960. Here are five key battleground areas where the outcome could: – Lagos – Lagos, in the southwest, is the largest city in sub-Saharan Africa with an estimated population of 20 million …