Elections 2015

PRESIDENT BUHARI EXTENDS VACATION, WRITES NATIONAL ASSEMBLY President Muhammadu Buhari has written to the National Assembly today, February 5, 2017, informing of his desire to extend his leave in order to complete and receive the results of a series of tests recommended by his doctors. The Presi...
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  PUNCH I dropped my presidential ambition for Buhari — Saraki JUNE 28, 2015 : TUNDE ODESOLA, SUNDAY ABORISADE, AND OLALEKAN ADETAYO   Senate President, Bukola Saraki The Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, has denied reports that he is nursing the ambition for presidency ...
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  SAHARA REPORTERS President Jonathan’s Kinsmen Feud In Court Over N155 Election Largesse A N155 million-election largess is at the center of a fierce legal battle between two members of President Goodluck Jonathan’s Ijaw ethnic group, SaharaReporters has learned. BY SAHARAREPORTE...
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  My tortuous election journeys — Buhari on May 10, 2015   /   in News, Special Report 1:44 am   /   Comments •How Russian revolution stirred the democrat in me By Levinus Nwabughiogu Today, the man who was “rejected” by both the ruling class and the courts h...
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  VANGUARD 2015: Are the polls really credible, free and fair? on May 02, 2015   /   in Politics 2:16 am   /   Comments By Clifford Ndujihe & Charles Kumolu ‘’THE 28 March 2015 elections mark an important step forward for democracy in Africa’s most populous...
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  Akin Osuntokun: The day of reckoning has arrived for Buruji Kashamu and other frenemies of Jonathan APRIL 24, 2015 by Akin Osuntokun At a slightly refined level, the one and only Allison-Maduekwe, who bestrode the petroleum resources like a colossus (to borrow the Nigerian parla...
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  Summary: Women in new Senate:  8 (out of 109 Senators) -   (1) current member of the senate, Oluremi Tinubu (Lagos Central), (2) incumbent Speaker of the Oyo State House of Assembly, Monsurat Sunmonu (Oyo Central), and (3) Binta Masi Garba (Adamawa North). The five other wom...
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  PUNCH Jonathan demands N2trn election funds refund, audit APRIL 19, 2015 : OUR CORRESPONDENTS Following the defeat suffered by President Goodluck Jonathan and his party, the Peoples Democratic Party, during the March 28 and April 11 elections, the President has asked the party and gove...
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  NATION 5218 to contest House of Assembly elections Posted by: Our Reporter A total of 5,218 candidates are seeking election into the 36 State Houses of Assembly today, according to figures from the Independent National Elecoral Commission (INEC). Of this number, 743 are females...
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  Pres. Jonathan’s concession speech & Gen. Buhari’s acceptance speech April 1, 2015 - President Jonathan’s concession speech Thank you all for turning out en-masse for the March 28 General Elections. I promised the country free and fair elections. I have kept my w...
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