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Ex-INEC chair, Attahiru Jega, two former ministers, 40 others bag presidential appointment
President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed a former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Attahiru Jega, as Chairman, Governing Council of the University of Jos. The Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu, who disclosed this while addressing journalists in Abuja yesterday, said Buhari also approved the appointment and reassignment of Chancellors to 42 federal universities. Two former Ministers,…
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Attahiru Jega- I won’t serve a new term as INEC boss
Atahiru Jega, the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declined any offer to extend his tenure as the head of Nigeria’s electoral body. Jega made this known yesterday, April 1, in an interview with the Hausa Service of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC Hausa) where he said he was not interested in tenure renewal and would not…
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Drama as Orubebe protests non-acceptance of PDP petition by Jega
The Peoples Democratic Party has threatened to stop further collation and announcement of the presidential election results. The PDP made its position known on Tuesday morning through its agent at the collation centre in Abuja and former Minister, Godsday Orubebe. Orubebe, who refused to leave the podium, protested that APC’s petition on Rivers State was accepted by INEC, whereas that…
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Jega says INEC not under pressure to declare elections inconclusive
The Independent National Electoral Commission has dismissed insinuation in some quarters that the commission may be under pressure to declare Saturday’s presidential and National Assembly elections inconclusive. Reacting to a question while addressing a press conference in Abuja on Sunday, the Chairman of INEC, Prof. Attahiru Jega, dismissed the rumour. According to Jega: “We are not under any pressure to…
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PDP accuses Jega of holding secret meetings with APC in Dubai
The raging attempt at discrediting the National Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Attahiru Jega, reached another level on Wednesday as the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP raised fresh allegations over the conduct of the forthcoming elections. At a crowded press conference, in Abuja, the Director of Media and Publicity of the PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation, Femi Fani-Kayode, alleged…
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B-R-E-A-K-I-N-GÂ News!!! INEC NEW Chairman, Prof Nazim Mimiko resumes March 1, 2015
The successor to the out-going Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Chairman, Prof Attahiru Jega has been nominated. The In-coming INEC chairman is Prof Nazim Olufemi Mimiko, a professor of Political Science and International Relations. He is alsoa former VC of Adekunle Ajasin University, Ondo State. The embattled Prof Jega will be officially proceeding on his three months terminal leave with…
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