By Correspondent Chinyere Ogbonna: The ECOWAS Observation Mission has appraised Saturday’s Presidential election declaring that the election meets the criteria of being free and transparent. Briefing newsmen in Abuja, head of the team, and former interim President of Liberia, Mr. Amos Sawyer said the mission is satisfied with the concrete steps taken by the electoral body, INEC to ensure that electoral officers were in full control of polling processes and for ensuring the availability of adequate voting materials at polling stations nationwide. The Observer Mission also lauded collaboration of security agencies in ensuring that the elections were conducted in a... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Wednesday, April 20th 2011 |
By Peterking Quaye with support from Ghana web, Asempa Radio – Ghanaian teams have in recent days come under fire for their poor performances, blaming the Ghana Football Association unequal attention to all the teams. In an interview on a local radio station Vice President of the Ghana Football Association, Fred Pappoe said all the national teams are treated fairly. Soccer fans share the view that the current Ghana Football Association under the leadership of Kwasi Nyantakyi is concentrated more on the Black Stars at the expense of the other national teams – a situation which has led to poor... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Wednesday, April 20th 2011 |
By Peterking Quaye with support from New Dawn-Liberia – News monitored by Shout-Africa.com correspondent from Liberia indicates that Liberia’s Under-23 football team will honour the first leg of the all African Games qualifiers this Saturday at the Samuel Kanyon Doe Sports Complex in Paynesville against their Nigerian opponents. Liberia was recently thrashed 4 – 0 by La Cote d’Ivoire in Ghana during the London 2012 Olympic qualifiers. The Liberian side was led by Italian coach, Roberto Landi and Thomas Kojo as assistant. The Lone Star Junior team line-up local base players for the match. The players’ listing of the Nigerian... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Monday, April 18th 2011 |
By Correspondent Chinyere Ogbonna – Nigeria’s incumbent President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party last night emerged victorious in twenty-one out of the twenty-nine states whose results the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had announced. Dr. Jonathan was closely trailed by the Presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, who won in seven of the states where results have been announced. As at eleven p.m. last night, Malam Nuhu Ribadu of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) won in only one of the twenty-nine states. A combined team of the army, mobile... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Monday, April 18th 2011 |
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
Publish Date: Monday, April 18th 2011 |
