Tag: Election

Oshiomhole Asks EDSIEC to Apologise for Lapses, Swears in 14 Chairmen

| April 23, 2013 | 0 Comments

Governor Adams Oshiomhole Warns Igbinedion against breaking the law   Election tribunal constituted Ademola Adeyemo and Adibe Emenyonu 
 For the lapses recorded during last weekend’s local government elections in Edo State, the state Governor, Mr. Adams Oshiomhole, Monday asked the state Independent Electoral Commission (EDSIEC) to tender an unreserved apology to the people of the [...]

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Election: Neck-And-Neck In Race For White House

| November 6, 2012 | 0 Comments

Election: Neck-And-Neck In Race For White HouseBarack Obama looks on course to secure a second term in the White House as Americans cast their votes following the most expensive election campaign in history.


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Election: Final Push In Race To White House

| November 5, 2012 | 0 Comments

Election: Final Push In Race To White HouseBarack Obama and Mitt Romney will make a final push to woo undecided voters in crucial swing states as the race for the White House enters its final day.


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Election: Ohio’s Undecided Voters Mull Dilemma

| November 1, 2012 | 0 Comments

Election: Ohio's Undecided Voters Mull DilemmaIf retired truck driver Bob Westerfield had his way, the next president of the US would be a man who has been dead for nearly 50 years – John F Kennedy.


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Election tribunal decides jurisdiction on Airhiavbere’s petition against …

Election tribunal decides jurisdiction on Airhiavbere’s petition against …

| September 27, 2012 | 0 Comments

| Print | E-mail Written by Uchechukwu Olisah, Benin City Thursday, 27 September 2012 EDO State Election Petition Tribunal will today decide whether it has the competence and jurisdiction to hear the petition of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in the July 14, 2012, gubernatorial election, Major-General Charles Airhiavbere (rtd), challenging the declaration of Governor Adams Oshiomhole as winner [...]

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Election will not threaten Lithuania’s austerity plans – PM

| September 17, 2012 | 0 Comments

Lithuania's Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius arrives for a meeting with his Japanese counterpart Yoshiko Noda at the latter's official residence in TokyoVILNIUS (Reuters) – Lithuania's austerity policies, touted as an example for Europe of how economic shocks can revive growth, will stay put whatever the outcome of an election between a centre-right government and centre-left opposition, the prime minister said on Monday. Lithuania holds a parliamentary election in October. It is the biggest electoral test for Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius since he introduced one of Europe's harshest austerity programmes, leading to a collapse in GDP of about 15 percent in 2009. …


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PDP BoT Meets on Election of Chairman

| July 17, 2012 | 0 Comments

Former PDP BoT Chairman, Olusegun Obasanjo Chuks Okocha For the first time since former President Olusegun Obasanjo resigned as the chairman of the Board of Trustees (BoT) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) last April, the board met Monday  at the Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa, Abuja, to set in motion the process of [...]

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Election observers give thumbs-up to Libyan vote

| July 9, 2012 | 0 Comments

Jibril, head of the National Forces Alliance, wipes perspiration from his brow during a news conference at his party's headquarters in TripoliTRIPOLI (Reuters) – International observers declared Libya's landmark national assembly election a success on Monday, saying violent incidents and anti-vote protests in the restive east failed to stop Libyans turning out in large numbers. Early but inconclusive results started to emerge on Monday evening from the North African state's first free national election in six decades that caps last year's uprising against strongman Muammar Gaddafi. …


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Edo guber: We have no agreement with PDP – Opposition parties

| April 15, 2012 | 0 Comments

*’We will revoke varsity fees’ By SIMON EBEGBULE JIMITOTA ONOYUME THE Coalition of Progress Political Parties (CPPP) in Edo State, yesterday, debunked a explain in some buliding that a governorship claimant for a Jul 14, 2012 governorship choosing in a state, Chief Solomon Edebiri, will shortly desert his aspiration and behind a claimant of a [...]

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2015: CPC backs Buhari to run

| April 15, 2012 | 0 Comments

The Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) yesterday reaffirmed that all hands are on deck to ensure that its presidential candidate during the 2011 election contest the 2015 Presidential election. Buhari, CPC said, changed his mind when he saw that the country is experiencing dishonesty and incompetent political leadership.                        National Publicity Secretary of the party, [...]

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SportsGuard: For true peace to return to Nigerian football …

| April 15, 2012 | 0 Comments

By Patrick Omorodion The late Reggae crooner Peter Tosh sang a song which will make a lot of sense in the lingering crisis tearing Nigerian football apart today. That is, everybody talking about peace and nobody wants to talk about justice. First Alhaji Ibrahim Galadima was removed as Chairman of the Nigerian Football Association, NFA, [...]

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Edo and a domestic exactness of Airhiavbere’s endorsements

| April 12, 2012 | 0 Comments

ON Saturday, Mar 31, 2012, an eventuality took place in a house of a Ojuromi of Uromi and Chairman of a Esan Traditional Rulers’ Council, HRH Anselm Zaiki Eidenojie 11 that brought a remit to a involved Edo State domestic landscape, that had hitherto been hijacked and fast manipulated by an army of function that [...]

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South Korea conservatives win parliamentary poll, boost for Park

| April 12, 2012 | 0 Comments

By Ju-min Park SEOUL | Wed Apr 11, 2012 10:55pm EDT SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea’s ruling conservative party has clung on to a parliamentary majority, losing less seats than forecast and bolstering the presidential ambitions of its leader Park Geun-hye, the daughter of a strong-arm ruler who was assassinated. Despite a strong challenge from [...]

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Infrastructure: Cleric Lauds Oshiomhole

| April 12, 2012 | 0 Comments

BENIN CITY-THE General Overseer of Information Gospel Church (an arm of Michael Okoh Ministries), Apostle Michael Okoh has lauded Edo State Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole for the infrastructural development of the state. The clergyman who spoke on the occasion of the celebration of his 40 years in the Ministry last Sunday, said the governor has [...]

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EDO 2012: Airhiavbere

EDO 2012: Airhiavbere

| April 12, 2012 | 0 Comments

Peoples Democratic Party ( PDP) Governorship Candidate  in Edo State,  Major General Charles Airhiavbere rtd.,  has expressed deep concern over alleged  reckless spending  of tax payers’ money by Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State with a promise to probe him when he gets elected as the governor in the July 14 governorship election. Airhiavbere  who [...]

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Edo guber poll: Why Oshiomhole is jittery, by PDP

| April 12, 2012 | 0 Comments

By GABRIEL ENOGHOLASE BENIN— EDO State Chairman of People’s Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Dan Orbih, yesterday, pronounced a Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, and a claimant for a Jul 14 gubernatorial choosing in a state, Governor Adams Oshiomhole were disturbed over a reformed state of a PDP in a state, that he pronounced was prepared [...]

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2015: Opposition parties seeking joined front opposite PDP —Ikimi

| April 12, 2012 | 0 Comments

| Print | E-mail Written by Uchechukwu Olisah, Benin City Thursday, 12 Apr 2012 Share Former Minister of Foreign Affairs and inhabitant personality of a Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Chief Tom Ikimi, has pronounced efforts are being done to combine all antithesis domestic parties in a nation with a perspective to forging a common front that will [...]

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Group petitions AIG over comments by Asari Dokubo

| April 12, 2012 | 0 Comments

By  SIMON EBEGBULEM BENIN—AHEAD a Jul 14 governorship choosing in Edo State, a Oghomwan Mandate Group, OMG, a socio-political organization in a state, has petitioned a Assistant Inspector General of Police, section 5, Benin City, over comments credited to personality of Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force, NDPVF, Alhaji Asari Dokubo, on a stirring choosing in [...]

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Lawyer Calls For Removal Of Resident Electoral Commissioner

| April 11, 2012 | 0 Comments

AVIELE- A Lagos Lawyer and Human Rights Activist, Barrister Ibrahim Mohammed has called for the immediate removal of the Resident Electoral Commissioner REC in Edo State, Mrs. Rose Obuoforibo, her tenure having expired in February after five years provided for by the constitution. Barr Mohammed, a constitutional lawyer who expressed alarm at the continued retention [...]

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Guber Poll: Ayogwiri Indigenes Pledge Support For Oshiomhole

| April 11, 2012 | 0 Comments

AYOGWIRI- As the gubernatorial election campaign in Edo state gradually gathers momentum, the people of Ayogwiri in Etsako West local government area under the aegis of Ayogwiri Osireghemhe Union (AOU) have declared to work relentlessly towards the re- election bid of the Comrade governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole. Arising from its general delegates conference (GDC), held [...]

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