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The expression, “Here we go again,” ran across my mind as I processed the enthusiastic effusions of some Africans, especially the educated elite, over Kemi Badenoch’s election as the new leader of Britain’s Conservative Party. Questions, questions! What makes it impossible for some of us to develop the minimalistic ability for critical thinking despite our […]
Continue ReadingReports coming in have it that the Action Peoples Party (APP) has won 22 chairmanship positions out of the 23 in the Rivers State local government election. Justice Adolphus Enebeli (rtd), who is the Chief Election Officer of the Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission (RSIEC), made this known on Saturday in Port Harcourt, the state […]
Continue ReadingThe African National Congress party lost its majority in a historic election result Saturday that puts South Africa on a new political path for the first time since the end of the apartheid system of white minority rule 30 years ago. With more than 99% of votes counted, the once-dominant ANC had received just over 40% in Wednesday’s parliamentary […]
Continue ReadingAs a result of the tribalistic sentiments witnessed in the governorship elections in Lagos State earlier on Saturday, media gal, Bolanle Olukanni, says she really wonders how Nigeria will heal from this election. In a tweet posted on her Twitter handle, Bolanle wrote: “This is wild. I really wonder how Nigeria will heal from this […]
Continue ReadingAt least three persons suspected to be political thugs have been killed in Gboko Local Government Area of Benue State. Reports say the thugs invaded the polling units 026 and 004, Gboko South while electoral processes were ongoing and attempted to snatch ballot boxes and the Bimodal Voters Accreditation System, BVAS. An eye-witness, Moses Agure-Dam […]
Continue ReadingSeye Dairo, the Campaign Director-General of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in Lagos State, Dr. Abdul-Azeez Olajide Adediran, better known as Jandor, has resigned. Dairo, who made the disclosure via a letter, failed to give any reason for taking the action. However, in the letter, Dairo expressed appreciation to Jandor for giving him the […]
Continue ReadingThe Pan Yoruba Socio-Political Group, Afenifere, has rejected the emergence of APC presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, as the president-elect, insisting that Labour party’s Peter Obi won the election. The group stated this in a statement signed and released by its National leader and Secretary General, Pa Ayo Adebanjo and Chief Sola Ebiseni, after its Special […]
Continue ReadingWow! The inevitable disputes aside, what an amazing presidential election we just had! Surely one of the most extraordinary in our history. Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), losing at home to Mr Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP). Alhaji Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) defeating […]
Continue ReadingA former Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Chief Michael Aondoakaa SAN, has maintained that before a candidate can be declared winner in a presidential election, that candidate must score 25 per cent of the votes cast in the election in 2/3 of the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory […]
Continue ReadingWho registered the kids we saw in the election queues in Kano on Saturday? I watched video clips of women on lines with four, five, six-year-old kids. They were all there to cast votes. I saw, in another video, a boy – a child – who was emphatic that he was at the polling unit […]
Continue ReadingLabour Party (LP) candidate for Enugu East Senatorial district, Enugu State, Nigeria, Barrister Oyibo Chukwu has been brutally assassinated. The trained lawyer was reportedly shot and killed in Enugu while returning from a campaign trip and the vehicle he was in was set ablaze. Video shows his vehicle burning with him inside on Wednesday evening, […]
Continue ReadingFour days to the general election in Nigeria, two local hunters, whose names have not been disclosed, have discovered a bag full of Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs), inside a forest in Nnewi, Anambra State, Nigeria. The hunters saw the bag containing the PVCs in a bush in Akamili, a community in Nnewi, on Tuesday, and […]
Continue ReadingBig Brother Naija (BBNaija) star, Erica Nlewedim, popularly known as Erica, has outlined the need for people not to be bullied or forced to support anyone ahead of the 2023 general election. Erica in her tweet, stated that people shouldn’t be bullied because we are in a democracy. She tweeted: “At the end of the […]
Continue ReadingAt least, thirteen political parties out of the 18 political parties in Nigeria on Monday threatened to withdraw from participating in the 2023 general elections slated for February 25 and March 11, if the Central Bank of Nigeria extends the deadline of February 10 for naira swap. The political parties have declared that they won’t […]
Continue ReadingThe ushering in of the new year has hastened the countdown for Nigeria as it hobbles towards the biggest event that ever happens in respective African countries: elections. In terms of the high expectations that precede it and even its ability to momentarily remind people fragmented of their shared identity, elections in Africa are equivalent […]
Continue ReadingA Mexican model-turned-politician has promised women voters free boob jobs if she gets elected in the country’s polls. Rocio Pino’s campaign slogans include “Give your mum t**s”, “Because a woman with t**s is an empowered woman” and “With me, your vote counts for two”, Daily Star reported. Pino, who goes by the moniker La Grosera […]
Continue ReadingIn a chat with Daily Independent in Lagos, Olisa Agbakoba SAN, former president of Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) who is also the leader of the Nigerian Intervention Movement (NIM) said, based on his performance in the last three and half years, nothing qualified President Muhammadu Buhari to continue for another term in office. In the […]
Continue ReadingElection observation team of the EU, U.S and UK have given their initial observation on the conduct of the rerun governorship election in Osun State. The observers gave their stance while addressing journalists in Osogbo in an interview televised by the TVC television station. A member of the observer team, who spoke on behalf of […]
Continue ReadingA US-based analysis firm, Teneo Intelligence, has predicted that President Muhammadu Buhari may lose the 2019 election. INEC had on Sunday announced results of the governorship election, with candidate of PDP, Ademola Adeleke, leading with 254,698 votes while APC candidate, Gboyega Oyetola, polled 254,345. It declared the election inconclusive. According to Bloomberg, the intelligence firm […]
Continue ReadingWhat is going on in Osun state right now is nothing short of political theatre. It is keeping us all entertained, but it has also turned so many observers into emergency lawyers. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared the Osun Gubernatorial election of September 22 inconclusive and has ordered a supplementary election at seven […]
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