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A party leader or an incumbent vice-president need not be elected a president. And an incumbent president need not be re-elected as president. In Nigeria, apart from Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, a vice president who became a president, by default, and made a mess of it, Alex Ekwueme, Atiku Abubakar and Namadi Sambo didn’t transit to […]
Continue ReadingFormer National President of the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ) and ex-Abia State Commissioner for Information, Mr. Bonnie Iwuoha, has died. Iwuoha, who served as the national President of the Union between 1996 to 1997, died on Monday evening, Dec. 20, in Umuahia, Abia State. He was also a former Managing Editor/Head of Editorial Department, […]
Continue ReadingPan-Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere leader, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, has lambasted Chief Bisi Akande, over allegations he levelled against him (Adebanjo) in his book, ‘My Participation’. Chief Akande, a former Governor of Osun State and first interim chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), had last week presented his book to the public, where in one […]
Continue ReadingBeyond the Rotation of Presidency between the north and south arrangement, which seems to be taking up a huge chunk of media space as 2023 general elections loom large , there are other critical factors which are nuanced but Germaine to the matter of who becomes the president of Nigeria in 2023. The word on […]
Continue ReadingFormer Presidential aide, Dr. Doyin Okupe, has stated that he is the most qualified candidate to become the next President of Nigeria in 2023. According to Okupe, he was the one former Military President, General Ibrahim Babangida had in mind during his recent interview with Arise TV where he said he had already seen three […]
Continue ReadingPresident Muhammadu Buhari spoke on Tuesday, warning troublemakers in the country that the picnic was over, and the next day, I saw this comment online from a Buharist, as lovers and admirers of the President are known: “I just finished watching the President on TV reading the riot act to troublemakers, and I couldn’t be […]
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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) dodged a bullet; a bomb even with the conduct of its presidential primaries a few days ago. This was conducted in a calm, serene and collected manner. There were no riots. No bombs went off to mark the process as “do or die.” Nobody got killed, maimed or injured. The […]
Continue ReadingThis table shows that 25,206 Nigerians voted on Twitter to choose a president between Buhari and Saraki. You can see the percentage. Looks like 2019 is going to be a tough race.
Continue ReadingTransparency International (TI) has said that the offices of Nigerian President, 36 governors and 774 local government chairmen in Nigeria, spend unaudited $670m (N241bn) yearly on security votes. African Director for TI’s Defence and Security Programme, Christina Hildrew, made the disclosure at an event organised by the Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre in Abuja on […]
Continue ReadingOne of Nigeria’s elder statesmen, Alhaji Tanko Yakassai has described the release of special funds to the President and the 36 states governors as security votes as unconstitutional. He said, the idea of security votes contradicts the provision of the constitution because the power to appropriate funds for the security of the federation has already […]
Continue ReadingIt is unfortunate that the most important statement made so far at the on-going Annual Conference of the Nigeria Bar Association, an outright derogation of the supremacy of the rule of law, has not yet generated any coherent response from either the Bar or the Bench. President Muhammadu Buhari was guest of honour on Sunday at the NBA Conference […]
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