Sentences with phrase «by an independent commission after»

Tony Blair's nomination of Sir David and Mr Patel for a seat in the House of Lords last year was blocked by an independent commission after it found out about the loans, sparking the cash for honours scandal.

Not exact matches

Some hours after Mr Uche Ogah, collected certificate of return and declared as the authentic governor of Abia state by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, an Abia High Court has asked all judiciary officers, including the Chief Judge and the President of the Customary Court of Appeal in the state not to swear in Ogah as governor of Abia State.

Addressing the newsmen and other stakeholders shortly after the announcement of the results by all the Returning Officers in the LGAs, Chairman of Ekiiti State Independent Electoral Commission (EKSIEC), Justice Kayode Bamisile, a retired Justice, said it was peaceful, violent free, fair and free.

But after a court last month upheld the state's congressional map drawn by an independent commission and thus, the makeup of her Democratic - leaning House district, national Democrats think that Sinema, one of the party's rising stars, might just wait for another opportunity down the road.

The letter came some hours after the upper chamber of the National Assembly, in protest, suspended consideration of the request by the Presidency to approve the appointment of 27 Resident Electoral Commissioners of the Independent National Electoral Commission.

We were part of those who drafted the APC Constitution, but after the party was successfully registered by the Independent National Electoral Commission, from nowhere, we heard that there were five governors of the Peoples Democratic Party moving from their party to join the APC and then, without getting in touch with the stakeholders of the party in the states from where the five governors were coming from, we were told they were coming to join the APC and they were ready to make their own financial contributions for the take off of the party.

«Rick received a letter from the New York State Commission on Public Integrity informing him that he must file a financial disclosure statement «within seven days after the last day allowed by law for the filing of independent nominating petitions.»»

The Independent National Electoral Commission on Thursday announced the postponement of the election fixed for Saturday, September 10, to September 28 after a security alert by the Department of State Services and Police.

He said, «After the party was successfully registered by the Independent National Electoral Commission, we heard that five governors of the Peoples Democratic Party were leaving their party to join the APC.

INEC in March raised a committee to investigate Kano local government elections conducted by the Kano State Independent Electoral Commission after footages circulating online showed some voters who were children, participating in the poll.

Gidado was among the 68 elected Chairmen announced by the Oyo State Independent Electoral Commission (OYSIEC), after scoring the highest votes in the election conducted in all the 610 wards, 33 Local Government Areas (LGAs) and the 35 newly created Local Council Development Areas (LCDAs) on Saturday.

After carefully weighing all the consequences and parameters of postponing the Edo governorship election as advised on Wednesday by the Police and the Directorate of State Service, the Independent National Electoral Commission says it has decided to go ahead with the conduct of the election as scheduled for next Saturday.

When the independent Consensus commission, after three years of work, issued a report calling for municipal consolidation and a new metropolitan government, Miner saw it as a veiled power grab by Cuomo and Mahoney.

Clegg said a US - style independent commission should be created to govern and oversee the party leader TV debates in the next election in 2020 after the last round was dominated by a long, drawn - out negotiation between broadcasters and politicians.

The mayor's proposal comes nearly three months after an independent commission that was led by New York's former chief judge, Jonathan Lippman, and created by the Council speaker, Melissa Mark - Viverito, released its plan to close Rikers.

After 900 hours of hearings and 1100 interviews over a six - month period, the Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission — chaired by Kiyoshi Kurokawa, an academic fellow at Tokyo's National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies — said that the accident was «a profoundly man - made disaster that could and should have been foreseen and prevented».

His works have shown in independent galleries nationally and are sought after by international collectors, with numerous private commissions.

Savage dismissed a judicial review brought by the association after the B.C. Legislative Assembly in 2013 rejected the recommendations of an independent pay commission.

Lloyds Bank commissioned an independent investigation into the loans being made by Scourfield after a campaign by business owners who claimed they had been mistreated by HBOS.