Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, yesterday, played a video recording before the Election Petition Tribunal to establish the allegation that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) used a central server during the February 23 polls. The film featured the Resident Electoral Commissioner, Mike Igini, notifying the public that the […]
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Lawyers and other notable Nigerians have warned that democracy will be endangered without strict compliance with the rule of law. Speaking at the at the 2019 Annual Law Week of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Owerri branch, they said that for democracy to thrive, institutions of government must abide by the rule of law. At […]
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The Peoples Democratic Party has condemned the killing of the daughter of Afenifere leader, Pa Reuben Fasoranti, Mrs Funke Olakunrin as an insult to the Yoruba people. In a statement by the South West spokesman, Mr Ayo Fadaka, it said:“The National Vice Chairman of PDP, Dr Eddy Olafeso and indeed the Zonal Working Committee of […]
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Chief of Army Staff, Gen Tukur Buratai, has charged troops of Operation Harbin Kunama 3 to be ruthless, aggressive and decisive against bandits in the North-West. He gave the charge when he visited the troops stationed at 1 Division Super Camp in Kuyello, Birnin Gwari Local Government Area of Kaduna State on Monday. He urged […]
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Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, on Sunday lamented the growing challenges posed to the security of Nigerians by herdsmen, saying President Muhammadu Buhari’s failure to find a solution to them, has eroded all the achievements of his administration. Soyinka added that the carelessness and negligence of the Buhari’s administration to the herdsmen menace has led […]
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Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai said that insecurity has been tamed across the country by the Nigerian army. Buratai stated this during a visit to the troops stationed at 1 Division Super Camp in Kuyello, Birnin Gwari Local Government Area of Kaduna State on Monday. He said that the efforts of the military […]
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Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo Monday complained about the continued insecurity in the country which he says is “eroding the root of our Nigerian community.” “The issue I am addressing here is very serious; it is the issue of life and death for all of us and for our dear country, Nigeria,” Obasanjo said in the […]
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Despite its earlier stance, the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has promised the Commonwealth of Zion Assembly (COZA) and its embattled pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo accused of rape by Busola Dakolo, wife to Nigeria popular artist Timi Dakolo, that the Christian body will always support the church. “It is a pleasure being here. And I assure you […]
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I am constrained to write to you this open letter. I decided to make it an open letter because the issue is very weighty and must be greatly worrisome to all concerned Nigerians and that means all right-thinking Nigerians and those resident in Nigeria. Since the issue is of momentous concern to all well-meaning and […]
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Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Monday wrote to President Muhammadu Buhari to urgently devise measures to forestall likely division of the nation, as Nigeria is “on the precipice and dangerously reaching a tipping point where it may no longer be possible to hold danger at bay.” In the letter released by his media aide, […]
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