The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Seyi Makinde, has been declared winner of the governorship election in Oyo State. He won 28 out of the 33 local governments in the state, leaving the All Progressives Congress with only five. Makinde received 515, 621 votes to defeat his closest rival from the APC, Bayo […]
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By Mobolade Omonijo Are there real winners in this election, or have we collectively lost? This generation of Nigerians appears to have betrayed a divine charge to lift up the country. How could anyone really celebrate an election at which guns were freely used? Do we know how many souls were peremptorily dispatched in this […]
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– Condemns denial of access to collation centre in Rivers The European Union Election Observation Mission (EU EOM) to Nigeria, on Monday, suggested a serious electoral reform in Nigeria as a panacea to various issues raised by both the local and foreign observers during the just concluded 2019 general elections in the country. Presenting the […]
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By Boniface Chizea Mr. President I salute you and congratulate you on your victory at the recently concluded elections with a whopping margin of almost 4 million votes. That is landslide or moon slide as some people would jocularly add. We are not oblivious that the leading opposition candidate is poised to challenge your victory in […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari has declared that he would want to be remembered as a leader who kept his word that elections in Nigeria must be free, fair and credible. Malam Garba Shehu, the President’s spokesperson in a statement in Abuja, said President Buhari made this known when he received Governor Aminu Masari of Katsina State […]
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By Victor Emmanuel Uwah At birth I was the joy and pride Of those who for a child had cried – They saw in me a little dear, And soon the news spread far and near. I lay enfolded on the bed While mother still had tears to shed – Tears of pain, but more […]
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By Samueli In Part III we touched on the present day deeds of madness and gave examples of same-sex marriages, terrorism and corruption. We will now attempt to answer this question: Have this period been foreseen? Many people who feel disturbed by the aforementioned occurrences simply exclaim- “the world is coming to an end!” More serious […]
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By Victor Emmanuel Uwah Created by Him yet despised by men, Immutable though Truth stands out still, That when He’s denied and men complain They can’t His faithfulness thus repeal. Truth is the “Which Is”, for He’s the same From days of yore, today and fore’er: He changes not His aim nor His name, And […]
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Ogun State Governor-elect, Mr Dapo Abiodun, says he bears no grudges against the outgoing governor of the state, Senator Ibikunle Amosun. He stated this on Monday in his victory speech at a news conference in Iperu. He said that he took the position despite Amosun’s alleged antagonism and hostility towards him in the build-up to […]
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The House of Assembly candidate of the All progressives Congress (APC), Honourable Ezekiel Afon has died. He died few hours after winning the seat for the Pengana Constituency into the Plateau State House of Assembly. He was said to be ill before the election and died on a day that should have been one for […]
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