Addressing a press conference yesterday in Abuja, the African Regional Director of IRI, John Tomaszewski, expressed the disappointment of his delegation at the
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The 2 Brigade Nigerian Army, Uyo in Akwa Ibom has embarked on a joint show of force parade.
Speaking to newsmen in Uyo on Saturday during the exercise, Maj. Bashir Jajira, Assistant Director, Army Public Relations Officer, said the exercise was in conjunction with other sister security agencies in the state.
Jajira said that the command would deal decisively with anyone involved in political thuggery, ballot box snatching, arson and other electoral offences.
Civil society groups monitoring Nigeria’s presidential and parliamentary election said on Monday that 39 people have been killed in violence linked to the vote.
The Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yorubaland, Aare Gani Adams, today, expressed worry over the last minute postponement of the Presidential and National Assembly election by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, describing it as a slap to Nigeria.
Speaking against the backdrop of the sudden shift by the electoral umpire, Adams, urged Nigerians to remain calm, saying the peace and unity of Nigeria is far beyond personal interests.
He said the decision to postpone the election at the last minute has a huge implication on the integrity of Nigeria, both in Africa and across the world, even as it affects …
The Igbo Youths Movement has urged voters yesterday in the shoddy polls to come out en mass to vote in the presidential and National Assembly elections, saying that it had become very essential to kick out Jubril Al-Sudani, Buhari’s Impostor in order “to save Nigeria.”
A former President of Zambia, Rupia Banda has expressed shock at the number of candidates for Saturday’s Presidential election in Nigeria, saying the figure of 73 candidates near the total number of the Zambian Parliament.
He spoke Thursday in Abuja at a meeting with the management team of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. The former Zambian president is the head of the Electoral Institute of South Africa, (EISA) which has since deployed 30 international observers for tomorrow’s exercise.
“The importance of Nigeria to Africa and indeed to the world cannot be overstated, so we are very honoured to be …
The Governor of Katsina State, His Excellency, Aminu Masari has urged Nigerians to vote for the impostor, Jubril Al-Sudani (being paraded in Nigeria as President Muhammadu Buhari. The Governor who was once involved in certificate scandal as Speaker of the Nigerian House of Representatives between 2003 and 2007 ) because the impostor has good intention for Nigeria and making sacrifices for the country.
The PDP in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan, said Jubril Al-Sudani being paraded as President Buhari has failed his integrity test and has no moral rectitude whatsoever to pontificate on corruption, his administration having been enmeshed in high-profile corruption.
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The party said if there is any person whose activities of corruption have become a threat to the coming election, it is President Buhari, who it alleged is financing his campaign with looted funds, while surrounding himself with politicians indicted for corruption.
The statement read in part: “The PDP, out of respect for the …
ABUJA — United Nations, weekend, challenged the Federal Government and all stakeholders in the upcoming general elections to work harder at ensuring that the outcome of the exercise was acceptable to all and sundry.
UN Special Representative of Secretary-General for West Africa and the Sahel, Mohammed Ibn Chambers, gave the charge at a national workshop on broadcast media coverage of 2019 general elections with the theme: Fake News, Hate Speech, Vote and PVC Buying, in Abuja.
Chambers, who was represented by Takwa Zebulun, said Nigeria, as the big brother that had played a stabilising role in many parts of Africa …
A sizable chunk of investment capital belonging to foreign investors found its way out of the shores of Nigeria through the equities market in 2018 compared to 2017. But the Central Bank of Nigeria has expressed the hope that the trend would soon be reversed with renewed efforts to put the economy in proper shape, reports Bamidele Famoofo
In the last three years, the rate of outflow of foreign portfolio investment from the equities trading segment of the Nigerian Stock Exchange has maintained a sustainable increase. Data churned out by the NSE in January which captured the activities in …
The new GLE, Mercedes-Benz SUV trendsetter is set to debut in Nigeria by the 1st quarter of this year, Weststar Associates Limited, the authorised general distributor of Mercedes-Benz in the country has said.
Weststar’s statement said the Mercedes-Benz GLE has marked a new era for the mid-sized SUV segment. Years after getting a new identity with a change from the M-Class nomenclature to the GLE, the best-selling Mercedes-Benz SUV continues to set the pace. In October 2018, the latest installment of the GLE was presented to the public for the first time at the Paris Motor Show with a …
THE Head of the European Union delegation to Nigeria and the Economic Community of West Africa States, Ambassador Ketil Karlsen, has said that the mission of the EU delegation to Nigeria is not to select a leader for the country in the February 16, elections.
He made the comment, weekend in Yenagoa, during a courtesy visit to the Bayelsa State Governor, Hon Seriake Dickson. Karlsen who stressed that the EU did not have any political aspiration in the country noted that the body was only committed to the conduct of free and fair elections in Nigeria.
The EU Ambassador said …
