Restrictions on movement announced by the Federal Governmnt for today’s elections will disrupt flight operations across the country. This has led to fears that foreign travellers may be stranded due to what some operators describe as insufficient notice from aviation … read more
The police in Lagos on Friday deployed 20, 000 men for election duty in the state, just as it issued a special identity cards for them. Saturday Punch gathered that the policemen are to report for duty by 6: 00 … read more
Reuters) – Voting started hours late in some wards in Nigeria’s oil capital Port Harcourt on Saturday but elsewhere in southern Rivers State polling stations failed to open and gunmen stole ballot papers. At a community centre in Mile 3 … read more
Reuters) – Election irregularities sparked pockets of violence across Nigeria on Saturday in a vote which should lead to the first fully democratic transition of power in Africa’s most populous nation. Saturday’s election of state governors and legislators was a … read more
The British Government has warned its nationals residing in Nigeria not to go close to polling stations during the period of the nation�s general election scheduled to begin on Saturday. The warning was contained in a statement issued and reviewed … read more
AS preparations heightened for the conduct of Saturday�s governorship and state legislature elections, the United States called on Nigeria on Thursday to give poll observers �full and transparent access� to venues of elections and collation centres. �We encourage the electoral … read more
Against the growing insinuation that the two-day public holidays declared by the Federal Government was to prevent the courts from sitting on electoral matter, President Olusegun Obasanjo yesterday said the work-free-days were meant to enable Nigerians who may need to … read more
An attempt to rob two new generation banks at GRA junction, Aba Road, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, in the early hours of yesterday failed, as the police was able to cordon-off the area, though the robbers escaped. This is as … read more
The Atiku Campaign Organisation has denied an allegation by the Special Assistant to the President on Public Affairs, Mr. Uba Sani, in which he accused Vice President Atiku Abubakar of planning to scuttle the elections. But the Presidency yesterday advised … read more
This Warden message is being issued to inform American citizens in Nigeria about a noticeable increase in violent crime and of an increase in public political activities, some of which have been occasioned by violence, in connection with the upcoming … read more