The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Professor Attahiru Jega on Tuesday briefed the Security Council meeting on the level of preparedness of the electoral agency to conduct the general elections billed to commence on the 28th of March. Jega emerged from the
The governor of Imo State, Governor Owelle Rochas Okorocha, has said that for an Igbo president to emerge, the people must vote the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential candidate, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari (retd) . Okorocha who likened Buhari to late Dr. Nelson Mandela of South Africa urged Nigerians to give him the mandate so […]
Mama Peace, as Dame Patience Jonathan is fondly called by admirers, remains an enigma due to her passion to canvass for peace across the length and breadth of Africa, in her capacity as the President of African First Ladies Peace Mission, a platform for African First Ladies to propagate peace and national development in […]
Over 1000 youth used as thugs and for snatching of ballot boxes lost their lives during the 2011 general elections across the country, Peace Ambassador Agency said at the weekend. Speaking during its 2015 Peace Summit in Abuja, President, Peace Agency, Ambassador Kingsley Amafibe, said statistics available to them shows that people who died during […]
Elder Statesman Chief Edwin Clark, has showered praises on young Nigerians seeking peaceful conducts of the forthcoming 2015 general election, stressing that violence poll can never take the country to the promise land. Chief clark, said this in Abuja last week, while attending an investiture ceremony organised by Foundation for peace initiative, used in […]
As the 2015 general elections draw near, Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Attahiru Jega on Monday said no soldier will be at the polling units. Prof. Jega disclosed this at a town hall meeting in Abuja. “There will be no soldiers at the polling unit. The army is not supposed to […]
The Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), at the weekend, held a rally in Umuahia, the capital of Abia State, to explain its demand for the removal of the National Chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Atahiru Jega, over electoral insincerity. Speaking on the occasion, the Zonal Woman […]
Senate President, David Mark, has assured the international community that Nigeria is prepared for a smooth, transparent and peaceful conduct of the 2015 elections. The Senate President also dismissed insinuations that the present administration is ill-prepared for the elections, saying that the initial postponement was necessitated by the security challenges in the
