The All Progressives Congress (APC), the Buhari Campaign Council, Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and Governors Babatunde Fashola (Lagos) and Aliyu Wamako (Sokoto) all said no to any postponement. While Fashola and Wamako spoke at campaign rallies in their states, the others responded in separate statements. In a statement in Abuja by its National Publicity…
National Security Adviser (NSA) Col. Sambo Dasuki and the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) were under attack yesterday for proposing a shift of the February 14 and 18 elections. Col. Dasuki, said at the Chatham House in London that there was nothing wrong if the polls are shifted to enable the Independent National Electoral Commission…
The issue of internally displaced persons (IDPs), to vote or not to vote in the general elections starting on February 14, could well be a subject of fierce partisan dispute. Given that most of IDPs – estimated not less than one million – are victims of the Boko Haram insurgency in the Northeast states of…
Nigeria’s campaign against Islamist Boko Haram insurgents is being hampered by “cowards” within the armed forces, National Security Adviser (NSA) Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd) said yesterday in London. Boko Haram’s bloody uprising to carve out an Islamic caliphate has taken much of Nigeria’s northeast. “Unfortunately, we have a lot of cowards. We have people who…
Why would a bank customer deposit his or her money in Lagos and yet make withdrawals on arrival in Maiduguri? It is because his banking details are virtually captured; and with just a punch on the computer key board, the data could come up. A similar technology powers the INEC virtual electoral roll. So, why…
President Goodluck Jonathan has promised the people of Abia State and the Ndigbo in general that his administration will provide them with the enabling environment for entrepreneurship to thrive if voted into power in the forthcoming election. Speaking in Umuahia during the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential campaign rally, President Jonathan said he would give…
There will be no official role for uniformed soldiers at polling stations across the land when next month’s elections get underway,according to indications from the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) . Only unarmed policemen will be allowed at the 120,000 polling units created for the elections,Saturday Nation gathered yesterday. The commission is also said to…
BARELY six days after the secretariat of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Okrika Local Government Area of Rivers State was bombed, another secretariat of the ruling party was yesterday bombed in Ngo, the headquarters of Andoni Local Government Area of the state. It was gathered that the APC’s secretariat, a bungalow, was bombed by…
A barrage of criticisms from across the nation yesterday greeted Thursday’s visit by President Goodluck Jonathan to Maiduguri, Borno State, with many Nigerians dismissing the trip as belated and politically motivated. The President had used the visit – his first to the state since March 2013 when he held a town hall meeting with Borno…
Spokesman of the Chibok Community Nationwide, Dr. Allen Mannaseh, has described as empty the promise made by President Goodluck Jonathan in April last year on the release of their abducted daughters in April 2014. Dr. Mannaseh also said the entire Chibok community was shocked over the silence of Mr. President on the true situation of…