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It is imperative for the voters to know that no person shall be allowed to vote at any Polling Unit other than where he/she had registered and was duly accredited. Accreditation begins at 8 am and ends by 1 pm or until the last person on the queue before 1 pm is accredited. After that, voting commences at 1:30 pm …

ABUJA—President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday reassured Nigerians that the March 28 and April 11 dates set by the Professor Attahiru Jega-led Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC for the conduct of General elections remain sacrosanct. Speaking in Abuja during the second session of the presidential debate organised by the Nigerian Elections Debate Group, NEDG for presidential candidates of six political parties held …

Abuja – President Goodluck Jonathan has congratulated the Flying Eagles on their victory against hosts Senegal in the final match of the 2015 African Youth Championship (AYC) on Sunday in Dakar. This information is contained in a statement in Abuja on Monday by the President’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Reuben Abati. It said President Jonathan joined other football-loving …

Workers in Nigerian universities under the auspices of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities has threatened to embark on a nationwide strike over what they described an ‘obnoxious circular’ by the National Universities Commission. The union therefore gave the Federal Government till Wednesday April 28, 2015, apparently one month within which it should address the issues or face industrial …

The Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Suleiman Abba, and the Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Attahiru Jega, on Friday clashed over the police chief’s “vote and go home order.” While the IGP had warned voters to go back to their homes after casting their votes on election days, Jega said the electoral law did not state that voters could not …

Sierra Leone’s President Ernest Koromo ordered the country’s entire population Saturday to keep to their homes on March 27-29 in a bid to stem the spread of the deadly Ebola epidemic. “All Sierra Leoneans must stay at home for three days,” he announced, expanding a previous order from the authorities for a lockdown in the capital Freetown and northern areas …

The All Progressives Congress, APC, has raised the alarm over plan by the Jonathan-led federal government and the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to arrest its national leader, Bola Tinubu and other chieftains of the party by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, ahead of next Saturday’s election. APC National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, on Saturday said the …

Resident Electoral Commissioners have threatened to expose governors and top government officials that offer them gifts, saying their conscience is not for sale. They said their major duty was to ensure the credibility of the forthcoming general elections in the interest of peaceful co-existence of the country. The RECs, who spoke in separate interviews during the week, said the governors …

ABUJA – Aminu Nabegu, Director monitoring evaluation and research in the Directorate of Technical Aid Corps, on Friday said that Federal Government would soon deploy teachers to teach Yoruba Language in Brazil. Aminu said that the countries were already discussing the modalities for the implementation of the programme. He said once the agreement was reached the government would deploy the …

JALINGO– The Independent National Electoral Commission in Taraba State on Saturday administered the oath of neutrality on its 12,000 ad-hoc staff trained for the March 28 and April 11 polls. Magistrate Yazeedu Aliyu of the Chief Magistrates’ Court, Jalingo, administered the oath on behalf of the commission. Speaking on the occasion in Jalingo, INEC’s Head of Public Affairs in the …