Showing posts with label presidential poll. Show all posts
Showing posts with label presidential poll. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Presidential Poll: Nigeria shuts land, sea borders

Ahead of Saturday’s 28 March presidential and national assembly elections, Nigeria has closed all its land and sea borders to movement, the Interior Ministry announced Wednesday.

The ministry said all borders would effectively be closed from midnight March 25, to midnight Saturday, March 28.

Friday, March 20, 2015

Another foreign firm tips Buhari to win presidential poll

New York based political risk firm, Teneo Intelligence, says the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari, is gaining momentum over  President Goodluck Jonathan ahead of next week’s election.

Teneo Intelligence,  in a  report yesterday,thought  Buhari  had  ”an edge,” but that “a last-minute upset by the incumbent president remained  a possibility.”

It said: ”President Goodluck Jonathan is banking on recent reports of the ‘successful’ counterinsurgency offensive against Boko Haram to help turn the tide on his battered reputation.

“However, the momentum of Jonathan’s rival Muhammadu Buhari of the main opposition All Progressive Congress (APC) continues to grow.