By Correspondent Chinyere Ogbonna: The Independent National Electoral Commission,INEC, has released the results of last Saturday’s Presidential election for twenty-nine out of the thirty-six states of the federation including the federal capital territory, FCT. According to the Chief returning officer for the presidential poll and Chairman of INEC, Professor Attahiru Jega, results for the remaining eight states will be announced at nine O’clock this morning. INEC states collating officers reeled out hand copies of the already compiled results from the states after which they were presented to Profesor Jega. Present during the presentation were INEC Resident Electoral Commissioners, Party agents,... Continue Reading
By Correspondent Chinyere Ogbonna – Nigerians yesterday, 16 April 2011, voted in the presidential election to elect a credible leader who will lead them in the next four years. Collation of results in yesterdays presidential election are still being received in Abuja in line with the directive of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC that all results in the presidential poll be forwarded to the INEC Headquarters where the Chairman of the commission, Professor Attahiru Jega will be the returning officer. The collation officers from various states of the federation where collation of results have been concluded are in Abuja,... Continue Reading
By Correspondent Chinyere Ogbonna – Nigerians are going to the polls today, to elect the president who will run the affairs of the country for the next four years. According to a publication by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, twenty-one candidates on the platform of their political parties are contesting. Meanwhile, ahead of tomorrow’s presidential election in Nigeria, the Federal Government has ordered the closure of all land borders. In press statement issued in Abuja, all land borders are to be closed from six o’clock in evening today till six o’clock on Monday morning the eighteenth of April. The statement... Continue Reading
By Correspondent Chinyere Ogbonna – Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof. Attahiru Jega, has appealed to Nigerians to endure the inconveniences they have had to go through during the on-going general elections, saying it is a necessary sacrifice they have had to make in order to ensure the credibility of the electoral process. Professor Jega made the appeal while playing host to a delegation of the European Election Observation Mission and ECOWAS election monitoring team which paid him a courtesy visit at the Abuja headquarters of the commission. He observed that the present situation whereby Nigerians had... Continue Reading
By Own correspondent with support from GNA – A team of Electoral Officials, Members of Parliament and democratic stakeholders from Mozambique on Monday paid a working visit to Ghana’s Electoral Commission to learn at first hand best electoral practices. The area of study includes operations of the Inter-Party Advisory Committee (IPAC), Voter registration procedure, electoral administration, legal status of the EC, composition and mandate of Commissioners, and polling day activities. Election in Mozambique is managed by the National Electoral Commission (CNE) and the Technical Secretariat for Electoral Administration (STAE).The CNE is responsible for ensuring voter registration; supervising of elections and... Continue Reading
