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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 …

The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Attahiru Jega, says only INEC has the power to monitor elections. Jega said this while addressing election observers in Abuja on Thursday. He also said INEC had distributed 81 per cent of Permanent Voter Cards. He said an election monitor is part of the administration of the election while an observer …

he United States government has thrown its weight behind the Independent National Electoral Commission to use the Permanent Voter Cards and the smart card readers in the March 28 and April 11 elections. The introduction of the PVC and the SCR for use in the 2015 general elections has been a subject of hot debate and litigation in the country. …

Benin– AISHAT Buhari, wife of the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has told President Goodluck Jonathan’s wife, Patience, not to have the fear of going to jail if Buhari emerged winner in the forthcoming March 28 presidential poll. The APC presidential candidate’s wife, who said the country had long suffered bad governance, said …

ABUJA – THE Federal Government yesterday, said it would construct over 774 e- Examination Centres for the conduct of Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination by the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board. Registrar and Chief Executive of JAMB, Professor ‘Dibu Ojerinde, stated this in Abuja, while monitoring of the ongoing UTME in Abuja. he said President Goodluck Jonathan has given commitment towards …

The new Minister of Information, Sen Patricia Akwashiki has pledged to adequately enlighten Nigerians on the achievements of the Jonathan administration in various sectors of the economy. She made the pledge at a meeting with the management and staff of the Federal Ministry of Information on Wednesday in Abuja. The minister also pledged to work with the management and staff …