Abuja — The Independent National Electoral Commission yesterday said it will engage 360,000 personnel for the compilation of the voters register for the 2011 general election.
Abuja — The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) yesterday said it would issue next week the guidelines for the forthcoming 2011 general elections even as it revealed that about 360,000 personnel would be recruited for the exercise.
LAGOS (Reuters) - A number of potential investors in Nigeria's rescued banks have completed due diligence but uncertainty over how the state's "bad bank" will value non-performing loans could slow the sale process, banking sources said.
Abuja — Against the backdrop that Nigeria has lost over two thousand men and expended well over ten billion dollars in peace keeping operations in the last five decades without resultant benefits, President Goodluck Jonathan has hinted that the country may cease to send troops as peace keepers if the United Nations (UN) does not change its rule of engagement.
Abuja — The International Criminal Police Organisation (INTERPOL) has directed the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) to furnish it with information on Senator Ahmed Yerima's alleged marriage to a minor.
Abuja — Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Professor Atahiru Jega, yesterday warned that the absence of a new and credible voters register may scuttle the 2011 elections.
Nigeria made another history on Thursday after defeating hard-fighting Colombians in Germany to become the first African team to reach the final of the U-20 FIFA Women World
Abuja — CENTRAL Bank Governor, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, said, yesterday, that deposit money banks in the country were strategizing towards a new phase of strengthening their capitalization.
KADUNA Nigeria (Reuters) - Governors of Nigeria's northern states said on Tuesday southern President Goodluck Jonathan had the constitutional right to stand in elections next year but stopped short of endorsing him.
Dark cloud now hangs over the January date of the 2011 elections as the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is now in a serious dilemma over the date. Following the reworking of some clauses of the 1999 Constitution, it is now mandatory for the commission to hold the forthcoming elections between December 30, 2010 and January 29, 2011.
YENAGOA Nigeria (Reuters) - Gunmen attacked the home of a top politician in Nigeria's southern oil region with explosives on Friday, the latest episode in a bitter political rivalry that risks degenerating ahead of elections next year.
Four suspects have been arrested in connection with the kidnapping of four local journalists, two days after their release in Abia State of Nigeria. Force Public Relations Officer Emmanuel Ojukwu said they are currently in police custody and are being questioned about their activities.
Abuja — As the abduction and release of four journalists and their driver continues to generate controversy, opposition political parties under the aegis of the Conference of Nigerian Political Parties (CNPP) have called for a security summit to discuss the rising cases of kidnapping, armed robbery and other related crimes in the country.
Bharti Airtel is to empower rural communities with affordable telecommunications services. The Indian telecom company, which now holds a controlling stake in Zain Nigeria, said it will be the rural network of Nigeria and will provide high quality service at low cost for that sector.
Police have rescued the four journalists and their driver who were abducted last week. Uncomfirmed reports say the journalists are on their way to Umuahia, the Abia state capital.
Lagos — The four journalists kidnapped last week in Abia State returned to the warm embrace of their colleagues yesterday at exactly 7.50pm at the Lagos State secretariat of the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ) in Alausa, Ikeja.
ONITSHA Nigeria (Reuters) - Gunmen in Nigeria's southeastern oil region released four local journalists and their driver unharmed on Sunday, after nearly a week in captivity.
JOS Nigeria (Reuters) - Raiders armed with machetes killed the family of a Nigerian Christian priest and set fire to his church in central Plateau state on Saturday, close to where hundreds have died in religious violence this year.
