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1 Apr 2011 20:37 Africa/Lagos African Union observer mission to Nigeria's 2011 Parliamentary and Presidential elections / Arrival statement ABUJA, April 1, 2011/African Press Organization (APO)/ -- African Union observer mission to Nigeria's 2011 Parliamentary and Presidential elections / Arrival statement 1. In response to the invitation of the Independent National Electoral Commission of Nigeria (INEC), H. E. Jean Ping, Chairperson of the African Union (AU) Commission, dispatched an Observer Mission to Nigeria to observe the country's National Assembly (House of Representatives and Senate) and Presidential Elections, which will be conducted on the 2 and 9 April, 2011 respectively 2. The AU Observer Mission is led by Mr. Ahmed Issack Hassan, the Chairperson of the Interim Independent Electoral Commission of Kenya (IIEC). The Mission is composed of 40 members drawn from Elections Management Bodies (EMBs), National Parliaments, the Pan African Parliament, Ambassadors, eminen...

More news reports and features on Nigeria and the rest of the world by Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima Many visitors to the Nigerian Times are not aware of my coverage of the most notable events, incidents and other matters on Nigeria. I reported the news, current affairs and features on the 2007 April polls in Nigeria as I have been reporting on the American presidential campaigns since 2007 to date. The following is the long list of my previous news articles and features already published on Google News and many of them were breaking news reports on Nigeria. Article Nigeria: Tinapa, Africa's Premier Business-Tourism Resort Opens Monday April 2 MichaelChima 20 3 days 14 hours ago News Article Nigeria: Who Killed Sheikh Jafar Adam Before The Elections? MichaelChima 2 8 weeks 4 days ago News Article US: The Bald Eagle Blog Endorses Hillary Clinton for President MichaelChima 0 9 weeks 5 days ago News Article US: Hillary Clinton Now Leads In Iowa After Last Debate MichaelChima 1 12 week...

16 Dec 2007 17:56 Africa/Lagos NEWSWEEK: Cover: The Sleeper John Edwards Believes he can Score Upset win in Iowa; Has Been Visiting Rural Precincts Where Frontrunners Have Paid Less Attention Didn't get Negative Feedback After Being Combative With Clinton 'I Thought it was More Important for People to Understand ... The Substantive Policy Differences Between us, and now I Think we're at a Stage Where it's Time to Focus on why I Want to be President' NEW YORK, Dec. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards believes he can still come from behind for an upset win in Iowa, Newsweek reports in the December 24 cover "The Sleeper," (on newsstands Monday, December 17). For months, Edwards has been doggedly working to round up support in the state's rural precincts where the frontrunners have paid less attention. (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20071216/NYSU007 ) As Correspondent Arian Campo-Flores and Senior Writer Su...

I have doubts about the political education of those attacking Hillary Clinton in replies to serious issues. It would be better if readers take time to read and study the political biography of Hillary Clinton, who has been active in the democratic development of America since the 1960s and that was long before she met Bill Clinton. When Oprah Winfrey was name dropping Martin Luther King, Jr., in South Carolina, I laughed at her ignorance of the life history of Hillary Clinton, because Hillary Clinton is more qualified to speak on the Civil Rights Movement than both Oprah Winfrey and Barack Obama. It would be really foolish to nominate Barack Obama as the presidential candidate of the Democrats, because he would be a walk over for the Republicans. Look at Obama's record as a senator and compare his performance so far to that of Hillary Clinton. Look at the political facts and not indulging in petty personalities. Barack Obama has a shallow knowledge of foreign policy and making noi...

Alhaji Umaru Yar'Adua I won April polls, Yar'Adua tells tribunal Vanguard Online Edition - Saturday, 08 December 2007 © Vanguard Online Edition The fact is, since the local and international monitors have provided facts and figures to prove that the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP) rigged the presidential election last April, and even Alhaji Umaru Yar'Adua agreed that the election was far from being fair and free, therefore, it is contradictory for him to turn around and claim that he won the presidential election based on the final result of the corrupt Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). The government has failed to probe the death of over 700 people who were killed during the April polls and the political thugs of the PDP who attacked, maimed and murdered hundreds of people all over Nigeria have not been prosecuted for their crimes. A 17-year-old school girl who was gang-raped by the political hoodlums of the PDP in Osun state in southwestern Nige...

Kano LG Polls - the Inside Story Daily Trust (Abuja) ANALYSIS 25 November 2007 Posted to the web 25 November 2007 By Hassan A. Karofi Kano Last weekend's local government polls in Kano State left traces of violence, destruction and heavy presence of troops, reminding residents of the anarchy that reigned in parts of the state for days during and after the elections. The election was never envisaged to be peaceful. Reason: pre-election campaign tones of the rival political parties dimmed any ray of hope of peaceful polls in the volatile city and across the state. A day to the Saturday, November 17 elections, strange movements of men and materials were noticed, while political party offices soon became munitions depots. The party offices were taken over by weapons-wielding youths, who were publicly smoking marijuana, blowing flutes of hunters-reminiscent of the war period. These election-eve events instilled fear in the minds of residents of the looming danger ahead of the polls. An...

Dear Orikinla, Did you watch the debate last night? When there was the most at stake, Hillary put on her best performance. She was prepared, firm, and 100 percent ready to lead America. It was obvious to everyone watching: Hillary will be a president we can be proud of every day. But you don't have to take my word for it; you can watch Hillary for yourself. We've collected some of her best moments in one place on our website: Las Vegas Debate And I know that she would want me to tell you what a difference you are making for her. When I told her before the debate that you beat the remarkable goal of raising $1 million in just a few days, she told me that she was so proud to have you standing with her. We're achieving so much together. Thank you for all you do to help Hillary make history. Sincerely, Patti Solis Doyle Campaign Manager Hillary for President CONTRIBUTE NOW FOR THE ELECTION OF SENATOR HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON AS THE FIRST FEMALE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF...

Puja Bharwani reports Nov. 13 - The detained Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto has called for military leader Pervez Musharraf to step down as the country's president. Bhutto has long called for Musharraf to step down as army chief but this is the first time she has called for him to quit as president altogether. Military ruler Musharraf set off a storm of criticism when he imposed emergency rule on Nov. 3. He suspended the constitution, sacked most judges, locked up lawyers, rounded up thousands of opposition and rights activists and curbed the media. Musharraf has come under mounting pressure from Western allies to set Pakistan back on the path to democracy. Soundbites: · Lahore Police Chief Aftab Cheema · Benazir Bhutto via telephone Nigerian Times Commentary : Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto is not an angel and no matter her provocative outbursts, she cannot make President Pervez Musharraf the devil. Mrs. Benazir Bhutto, from her chequered political biogra...

The GOP lost the control of the Virginia Senate to the Democrats Tuesday. These legislative elections are good indicators of the likely results of the presidential elections next year. See the Washington Post for the full report. I knew how Guy Cecil, National Political and Field Director of the Hillary Clinton for President, urged thousands of voters in Virginia to help Hillary Clinton turn Virginia blue and they did so yesterday. Meetings were held in Northern Virginia, Richmond, Roanoke, Blacksburg, and Charlottesville last Monday to encourage voters to turn out in support of the Democrats. A victory for the Democrats in Virginia is a victory for Hillary Clinton.

NEWSWEEK: Cover: The Billion Dollar Wild Card BLOOMBERG ON RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT: 'I am not running for president. I have 790-odd days to go in this job, the greatest job in the world-maybe the second greatest job.' 'One of the sad things is that at the moment America is not liked around the world. We are closing our eyes ... And I don't hear from the candidates how they would go about pulling the world together, getting people to respect us.' One year from Election Day, Newsweek takes an in-depth look at the people - and places - that could have a major impact on Campaign 2008 NEW YORK, Nov. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- For New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg -- the billion dollar wild card in the 2008 presidential election -- public service and public attention are inextricably linked, and have been since boyhood. Now he is thinking hard about taking a turn on the biggest stage of all: a campaign for the White House. The odds against an independent bid for the White House are ...

It would be more beneficial if we analyze the crisis in perspective. Ignorant observers should not mistake the volatile crude oil politics in the Niger Delta for what you read in the newspapers, because it is more than meets the ordinary eye. 1. The Nigerian government is controlled by a plutocracy of kleptomaniacs both in the military, public, and private sectors. 2. Illegal oil blocks have been acquired by both top ranking Nigerian military officers, both the retired officers and those still in active service and their civilian accomplices.. IBB, OBJ, Danjuma, and others have acquired illegal oil blocks. They have saved the fiscal proceeds in various foreign banks, bought properties in foreign lands, and only invested some millions of dollars in Nigerian banks, telecom companies, and other ventures. 3. Illegal oil bunkering started in the 1980s when IBB was in power and corruption and crime were in ascendancy. The proceeds have also been spent on similar ventures mentioned above. 4....

The former First Lady of the United States of America, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton sent me a letter of appreciation to thank me for supporting her campaign to become the next President of America. You read it on my Support Hillary Clinton for President Blog .

The Mandate of MKO Abiola By Adeleke O. Adeyemi, with the remarks of Reuben Abati The Mandate: Audio Drama Suffused with score after score of original, lilting music that resonates with its power and purpose The Mandate, Audio Drama tracks along a ponderous part of Nigeria’s story as it totters on a way forward, past a crossroads onto a path leading past her present – into an impending future. It is here presented for education and entertainment in a way that is gratifying to the soul. This is Drama to experience – over and over again! Following in the chequered tradition of the groundbreaking radio adaptation of The War of the Worlds (by American actor and director Orson Welles, written by the British H.G. Wells, a generation earlier) that captured the imagination of a whole nation an eon of a generation ago, another playwright has given us–startling as gripping–another War. It centres on the calling and career of one whose essence has been aptly captured as: …Truly the first national...

Nigeria: President Yar'Adua Must Save Nigerian Universities From Total Collapse President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua and Vice President Goodluck Jonathan were university lecturers before dumping their academic gowns for Nigerian politics. And millions of their old boys expect the best things to begin to happen to Nigerian education, because of these two former academics that are now in power. That is why they are not surprised that President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua is going to end the three months old strike of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).The pragmatic measures of President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua ended the last nationwide workers strike and he is employing the same pragmatic approach to end the protracted ASUU strike. President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua knows the cause of disagreement between the government and Nigerian university lecturers, because he had been through similar trials and tribulations of Nigerian academics in the past. And it would be unfortunate ...

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