• NWC Member, Lukman, Demands Removal Of Adamu, Omisore • Says South East Or South South Should Produce Senate President • Group Wants Speakership Zoned To North-Central, Drums Support For Wase • I Have No Take On The Issue, Says Party Spokesman • Akume Likely To Succeed Adamu — Sources There is palpable crisis in […]
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Ondo State Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu has decried the rejection of old naira notes by a large section of traders and business owners in the state. He described the rejection of the old N1,000, N500 and N200 notes as flagrant disobedience of the law. In a statewide broadcast on Thursday, he explained that rejecting the old […]
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By Jide Ojo ‘The rule of law upon which our democratic governance is founded becomes illusory if the President of the country or any authority or person refuses to obey the orders of courts. The disobedience of orders of courts by the President in a constitutional democracy as ours is a sign of the failure […]
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By Niran Adedokun I saw a very chilling video on Monday. In it, a man who did not bother to hide his identity threatened some people he did not name about this weekend’s governorship elections. He said that anyone voting in the election must vote for only one party and nothing else. He dared his […]
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By Abimbola Adelakun The ethnic irredentists who regularly punctuate the atmosphere with the dog whistle of Yorùbá ro’nú are not sincerely invested in the gains of contemplation. If they were, they would deploy the same gusto to call for a reflection on the Yorùbá condition within this contraption called Nigeria. We would be asked to […]
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By Tunde Odesola When cornered by death or stalked by danger, an insect called the Malaysian Exploding Ant turns against its assailant, ruptures its abdominal muscles, causing its poisonous glands to explode. With the explosion of the poisonous glands, the ant releases an irritating substance in all directions. The released secretion is capable of immobilising […]
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THE postponement of the governorship and state houses of assembly elections nationwide originally scheduled for Saturday, by one week by the Independent National Electoral Commission confirms its logistical, administrative, and technical incompetence. This further prolongs the agony of Nigerians in the country’s excruciating elections as anxiety and despair pervade the country over the war-like political […]
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Nigeria’s leading opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has asked Prof. Mahmood Yakubu to resign his chairmanship of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC for allegedly rigging the February 25 presidential and National Assembly elections in favour of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC. It said the call followed further review of the “the […]
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The National Vice Chairman (North-West) of the All Progressives Congress, Mallam Salihu Lukman, has called for the National Chairman of the ruling party to be relieved of his duty in a bid to balance the Muslim-Muslim ticket of the president-elect, Bola Tinubu. Lukman, who made the call in a statement titled “APC Internal Dynamics and […]
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As the rescheduled governorship election holds in 28 states across the federation on March 18, Dirisu Yakubu writes on the issues likely to throw up winners in some states where intrigues and high-stakes games are already at play. The February 25 presidential election demystified hitherto held myths about Nigerian politics, forcing bookmakers to play the […]
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