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Taraba Re-run Election: Card readers recovered at Accident Scene ‎ Reports reaching www.yajonline.com‎ indicates that an accident involving a Bus destined for Donga LGA and a local motorcycle operator popularly known as Achaba in Sunkani, the headquarters of Ardo Kola Local Government Area was fatal and lead to the death of the motorcycle operator. It was reported that the bus driver was in a hurry to reach his destination and was driving recklessly and dangerously before the accident.  What surprised most people at the scene was the recovery of 70 INEC Card Readers and some voters card in the Bus.  It was not clear if the bus was hired by INEC to convey electoral materials to Donga LGA or was involved in some form of disingenuous act in active connivance with some Politicians. It should be recalled that Taraba State election was declared inconclusive by INEC and a re-run will take place tomorrow in several LGA’s involving Donga.  INEC is expected to start distributing voting materi

APC's Taraba gov candidate wants state polls cancelled The All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate in Taraba State Senator Aisha Alhassan has called for the cancellation of the elections citing  widespread irregularities and violence. Addressing a press conference at the party's secretariat in Abuja on Thursday, Senator Aisha Alhassan said the election in Taraba was marred by the attempt by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to rig the elections in its favour. "As you are very much aware, INEC has declared the Governorship election in Taraba State inconclusive, because - according to the electoral commission - the number of cancelled votes were more than the difference between the votes ganered by the candidate of the All Progressives Congress(APC) candidate, that is my humble self, and Darius Ishaku of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)," she said. She however said the conclusion by INEC does not reflect what really transpired in the said election

WOMEN AND POLITICAL LEADERSHIP IN MUSLIM THOUGHT SANUSI LAMIDO SANUSI http:// www.nigerdeltacongress.com / warticles / women_and_political_leadership_i.htm Established 1947. Grand Patron: Chief Harold Dappa Biriye . Copyright Reserved: www.Niger Delta Congress.com . Contact: webmaster @ nigerdeltacongress.com /   Disclaimer: Published articles are not necessarily the opinions or viewpoints of www.nigerdeltacongress.com /  but that of authors and contributors whose name and email addresses are enclosed. All articles are received and published in good faith. This article is a comment on Abubakar Ahmad Gada's interesting write-up on the ''Political Irrelevance of Women in Islam''( Weekly Trust, October 5, 2001) which in turn was a contribution to an on-going discussion of the subject sparked off by Hajiya Bilkisu's earlier article in the Paper. Mallam Abubakar, the Imam of NNDC mosque, Kaduna presented arguments in his write-up which, to be fair, correctly re