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
Publish Date: Sunday, April 17th 2011 |
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
Publish Date: Sunday, April 17th 2011 |
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
Publish Date: Sunday, April 17th 2011 |
By Correspondent Chinyere Ogbonna: The EU Election Observation Mission to Nigeria has advised INEC to pay special attention to processes that would impact on the outcome of elections. The EU Chief Observer, Mr. AlojzPeterle, gave the advice while fielding questions at a forum with journalists in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory. Mr. Peterle commended INEC for a peaceful conduct of the National Assembly elections,but suggested improvements in some technical areas. In his words “We are pleased to be able to observe that the polling booths were functional with several exceptions; the accreditation process was done generally well. “We saw only... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Saturday, April 16th 2011 |
By Correspondent Chinyere Ogbonna – The results for today’s presidential election are to be publicly displayed and tallied on stalled electronic screens as they arrive from the states, at the Presidential Collation Center in Abuja, the nation’s seat of government. Voting figures from all the thirty-six states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory, collated at the various polling units, will be summed up electronically at the centre located in the central business district. This marks a shift from the previous approach from the 2003 and 2007 elections, when results were manually computed. This method adopted by the current... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Saturday, April 16th 2011 |
