Showing posts with label Jega. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jega. Show all posts

Sunday, 5 April 2015

Governorship Elections: Card Readers Won’t Malfunction – INEC Assures

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has assured Nigerians that the hitches experienced with the use of card readers in the just concluded presidential elections will not re-occur when Nigerians troop out for gubernatorial elections on Saturday, April 11, 2015.

Friday, 20 March 2015

Politicians that cloned, bought PVCs will be disappointed – INEC

ABEOKUTA- The national Commissioner of Independent National Electoral Commission in charge of Oyo, Ogun and Ekiti states, Prof. Lai Olurode, has said politicians who have either cloned or bought up the Permanent Voter Cards from registered voters will be disappointed during the forthcoming elections.

Olurode said this yesterday, at the INEC headquarters in Abeokuta while briefing journalists on the preparedness of the commission.
The  INEC commissioner who allayed the fears of the electorate over the usage of  card readers during the coming elections, said the commission introduced the machines with a view to checking counterfeiting and impersonation during the elections.

Tuesday, 17 March 2015

Nigeria2015: Jonathan, Jega, Security Chiefs in crucial Meeting

A crucial meeting with likely implications for the forthcoming general elections, scheduled to hold on March 28 and April 11, is currently underway at the presidential villa, Abuja.

Elections: Jonathan, Jega, security chiefs in crucial meeting

President Goodluck Jonathan, Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Attahiru Jega, and heads of security agencies are currently having a crucial meeting at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

Details later…

Wednesday, 7 January 2015

We won’t postpone Feb polls — INEC



ABUJA — The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, yesterday, rebuffed entreaties to postpone next month’s round of elections, saying it was financially and mentally set for the polls.

Saturday, 15 November 2014

PLOT TO RIG 2015 ELECTIONS: Jega goes tough, arrests two INEC staff

The National Chairman of Nigeria’s indepen-dent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Attahiru Jega, yesterday confirmed the arrest of two INEC Ad hoc staff for carrying out a house-to-house registration of voters in Kano State.