Nigerian election. (Photo by Pius Utomi Ekpei / AFP) The average Nigerian or African believes that democracy’s promises to the people have been broken. Hunger, the prevalence of official corruption, the opulent lives of government elite, and collapse of institutions testify to this belief. Participation in the process of producing elected officials is severely compromised. […]
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Pensioners The poor state of the economy has brought untold hardship on Nigerians, pushing many to survival. Those who are out of jobs are falling back on the 25 per cent out-of-job withdrawal from their pension savings to survive. About 30,680 retirement savings account (RSA) holders who were disengaged from their jobs and unable to […]
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Akeda Pulati. Photo: Radio Free Asia The daughter of a prominent Uyghur academic reportedly jailed for life in China has appealed for support from scholars around the world, saying authorities have shown her mother no mercy. The human rights group Dui Hua said last month that China had sentenced Rahile Dawut to life behind bars […]
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Fayemi. Photo/facebook/JKayodeFayemi By Alabi Williams Politicians and scholars are calling for a review of the variant of democracy that is in vogue in Africa, where citizens don’t get rewarded with a better life and the electoral process becomes something like magic, such that it becomes easier to take a voyage to the moon than for […]
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Atiku President Bola Tinubu’s campaign former spokesman in the southeast, Dr. Josef Onoh has described as the ‘Ajasco dance’ the celebration of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and his supporters over the Judgement of the United States court that ordered the Chicago State University to release the certificate of the Nigeria President. Jeffrey Gilbert, a […]
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Bola Tinubu and Atiku Abubakar Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar’s Special Assistant on Public Communications, Phrank Shaibu, says that the independence of the judiciary in the United States of America led to President Bola Tinubu’s ultimate defeat at the Northern District of Illinois court. Shaibu said this while reacting to the order by Justice Nancy […]
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APC National Chairman, Abdulahi Ganduje receives a plague from Ghana’s New Patriotic Party (NPP), National Chairman, Mr Stephen Ntim in Abuja. Photo: NAN The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Alhaji Abdullahi Ganduje, has urged African leaders to deliver on good governance as a way of reducing the incidences of military coups in […]
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NMC. Photo: FIJ.NG The Manarement of Ambrose Alli University (AAU), Ekpoma, says its Nursing students returned a 100 per cent pass in the Nursing and Midwifery Council’s professional examination. The institution’s Head, Corporate Communications and Protocol, AAU, Ekpoma, Otunba Mike Aladenika, announced this in a statement on Monday in Benin. In the statement, made available […]
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Scene of the tanker explosion Photo: Punch The Police Command in Delta says five persons died in a petrol tanker explosion in the state. The spokesman of the command, DSP Bright Edafe, disclosed this to newsmen on Sunday in Warri, saying the incident occurred on 1 October at Ugbenu in Ethiope West Local Government Area […]
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Unoma Akpabio. Photo: BusinessHallmark Mr. Eseme Eyiboh, the Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the Senate President, has debunked reports that an office was created for the wife of the Senate President, Mrs. Unoma Akpabio, in the National Assembly. Eyiboh, in a statement on Monday in Abuja, said the story showed that it was […]
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