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The 2015 general elections were adjudged the most credible, free and fair elections since the return of democracy in 1999. [31] [32] The INEC was accused of widespread electoral irregularities in the 2019 presidential elections including cases of ballot paper unavailability, smart card readers malfunctioning, and large cancellation of valid votes.
Presidential elections were held in Nigeria on 16 April 2011, postponed from 9 April 2011. [3] [4] [5] The election followed controversy as to whether a northerner or southerner should be allowed to become president given the tradition of rotating the top office between the north and the south after the death of Umaru Yar'Adua, a northerner, when Goodluck Jonathan, another southerner assumed ...
Olutayo Charles Adesina (2012), Archival Documents and the Gatekeepers in the Twenty-first Century: Reconfiguring Nigeria's National Archives. Abstract. Paper presented at conference in Senegal "Archives of Post-Independence Africa and its Diaspora" Mohammed Salau (2016). "National Archives Kaduna Collection". Endangered Archives.
Newspapers published in Nigeria have a strong tradition of the principle of "publish and be damned" that dates back to the colonial era when founding fathers of the Nigerian press such as Nnamdi Azikiwe, Ernest Ikoli, Obafemi Awolowo and Lateef Jakande used their papers to fight for independence.
Even in 2012, which stands out as a good year for both polling and election forecasting, the polls missed election outcomes by 3.2 percentage points. At this early juncture, we can only speculate ...
A Canadian example of such an opportunity is seen in the City of Edmonton (Canada), which went from first-past-the-post voting in 1917 Alberta general election to five-member plurality block voting in 1921 Alberta general election, to five-member single transferable voting in 1926 Alberta general election, then to FPTP again in 1959 Alberta ...
This is a list of political parties in Nigeria. The Federal Republic of Nigeria has a multi-party system. The largest by National Assembly seats are the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
The drug, known as SPI-2012, showed promise in a phase 1 study. Disappointing news followed in April with phase 3 results from apaziquone, developed with partner Allergan .