Photo: NAN By Jerome-Mario Utomi With the amendment of the Electoral Act that presently accommodates the electronic transmission of results, one can say that as a nation, we have made some political/electoral gains. However, by the report put together by the Centre For Value in Leadership (CVL), Lagos in partnership with the Policy and Legal […]
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Journalists By Uzor Maxim Uzoatu There is this friend of mine, a very evil wag named Vitone, who keeps stressing that journalists must be made to wear uniforms like policemen. My friend argues that the role of journalists as societal watchdogs places them on the same pedestal as the police. He then goes ahead to […]
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A man cleanes mud from his house after it was hit by flood in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on December 19 , 2021. (Photo by Arif Kartono / AFP) Over 29,000 people were evacuated throughout Malaysia on Sunday as the country faces some of its worst flooding in years. The tropical Southeast Asian nation often sees […]
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A resident bathes her child next to their destroyed house in Carcar, Philippines’ Cebu province on December 18, 2021, days after Super Typhoon Rai hit the city. (Photo by Victor Kintanar / AFP) More than 90 people have been killed in the strongest typhoon to hit the Philippines this year, official tallies showed Sunday, as […]
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In this picture taken on December 18, 2021, Sikh youths gather outside the Teja Singh Samundri Hall after a man was beaten to death for allegedly trying to commit an act of sacrilege at the Golden Temple in Amritsar. (Photo by Narinder NANU / AFP) A man was beaten to death in India for allegedly […]
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NCDC team. Photo; Twitter/Chikwei Rivers State took the lead in the country’s COVID-19 infections as the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) logged 828 new infections on Saturday. The Rivers state capital, Port Harcourt, a metropolis that is considered the commercial center of the Nigerian oil industry, registered 188 infections out of the 828 declared […]
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Photo: Lucy Ladidi Ateko The Biafra Nations League (BNL) has given the Federal Government up to January 23, 2022 to free all Biafra agitators detainees, especially the leader of the Indigenous people of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and leader of Biafra Zionist Federation (BZF), Mr. Benjamin Onwuka. The group said many detained Biafra agitators […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari . Photo credit: Bloomberg By Martins Oloja ‘The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.’ – Ronald Reagan It is in the light of the above powerful words of one of America’s greatest leaders, […]
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State governors’ angling for more airports is a misplaced priority that the National Assembly and Federal aviation authorities should discourage as it amounts to prodigal awards of state resources. Though bereft of how to run them efficiently, Nigeria already has an unwieldy list of airports that are enough to go round almost all the 36 […]
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The last is yet to be heard of controversy surrounding move to expend N42.4b on renovation of the National Assembly complex in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). Three leading pro-democracy groups: the Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD), the Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC) and Human Rights Writers’ Association (HURIWA) maintained the proposed […]
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