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Vol. 2 No. 356
Tuesday, February 10, 2015
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Nigeria: Sitting on keg of gunpowder
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nce again, the Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Attahiru Jega, has dashed hope on the
commission's ability to keep to election timeline with the postponement of the February general elections. Jega did this in 2011 and has repeated the same feat
front page comment in 2015. In the 2011 elections, Jega almost bungled the electoral process when, citing logistics
challenge, he delayed the election by one week. Prior to the commencement of the election in April 2011,
he had assured the nation and the international community of the readiness of his commission to go ahead with the elections. But on Election
Day, after voting had commenced in some states, Jega aborted the process. Elections had to be rescheduled and President Goodluck CONTINUED ON PAGE 7
Dasuki: We'll flush out Boko Haram in six weeks }5
Quick Read Editorial L-R: Lagos State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate, Mr. Jimi Agbaje; his All Progressives Congress (APC) counterpart, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode; United States Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. James Entwistle and US Consul General, Mr. Jeffrey Hawkins, during the signing of a non-violence accord by the two candidates in Lagos…yesterday
Jonathan loses bid to stop eligibility suit Travel Advisory Your guide to local and international flights 4
lCourt fixes Feb 23 for Buhari's certificate motion Tunde Oyesina Abuja
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resident Goodluck Jonathan yesterday lost his bid to stop
the referral of a suit challenging his eligibility to re-contest in the forthcoming presidential election to the Court of Appeal. His main challenger in the election, Major Gen-
eral Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC), however, challenged two suits filed before the Federal High Court, sitting in Abuja, seeking to disqualify him
from contesting in the presidential poll for allegedly forging his secondary school certificate forgery and committing perjury. When the case to stop CONTINUED ON PAGE 5
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