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Tension heightened in Rivers, Anambra and Enugu states on Saturday following bombings, killings and arrests in some polling units. In Rivers State, a soldier and two civilians were shot dead by suspected political thugs at polling centres in Ozuoha and Kpite in Ikwerre and Tai Local Government Areas of the state. Sources said the gunmen opened fire where prospective voters …

Even in the face of provocation of gargantuan proportions occasioned by the episodic failure of the Smart Card Readers, SCRs, Nigerians persevered, were patient and eventually voted at yesterday’s presidential and National Assembly elections. It was, indeed, the dawn of a new electoral process for a nation that had been reeling under the unbearably crushing weight of a shambolic voting …

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. …