He stood up and did some small jumping up and down to show that all was well and his doctors confirmed same to be true.
Author: Reuben Abati
Abiola was a Yoruba man. He won convincingly in more than the two-thirds of the states required by the Constitution.
The parties said they were facing serious constraints. INEC refused. Its excuse was that any extension at all would disrupt the schedule of activities and that the electoral process being time-sensitive was not something the Commission or anyone could toy with. Political parties were further admonished to develop a culture of discipline and respect for rules.
The 2023 general elections may well turn out to be the most problematic since the country’s return to democratic rule in 1999.
To resolve the matter, the Supreme Court in addition to its panel of seven Justices invited five Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SANs) as amici curiae (friends of the Court).
My own take is that Gbajabiamila has raised a very fundamental question about Nigeria’s leadership recruitment process.
Eguavoen was further used to justify the fact that there are good indigenous coaches who only needed to be given a chance.
The standards of old have disappeared. Nigeria’s places of learning have become environments of strife and chaos.
History transforms people and creates enduring magic, lumping together event, identity, and symbolism in a notable capsule.
With return to civilian rule in 1999, civil society, praised for its commitment to the major task of saving Nigeria, more or less relaxed
The politics of state creation has been one of the most volatile issues at the heart of the national question in Nigeria.
By 2015, the forces of elite conspiracy and ethno-religious myopism, organised an acidic campaign against the Jonathan Presidency and got him out of office.
I guess it is now possible to indulge in Afghanistanism without being accused of an idle journey to distant places.
She added that no other Nigerian President has been more abused by Nigerians, and if curses could kill, IBB should have been long dead and forgotten. In the wake of the annulment of the 1993 Presidential election by the Babangida junta, activists in the South West rained curses on IBB.
“I dey for house now? Where I for dey?”
Among the Yoruba of the South West, the death of an old man or woman is described as “oku eba”, that is a transition that is worth celebrating, with generous dollops of cassava paste. Other groups in the country also have varying patterns of burying their dead.
The last time new polling units were defined in Nigeria was 25 years ago by the defunct National Electoral Commission of Nigeria, as INEC was then known. At the time the country had on the voters’ register, 50 million voters
It was my first return, not to the Villa itself, but to the President’s Residence since President Jonathan was driven out of that environment on May 29, 2015. As I walked from the parking lot in the Residence as we call it, I took in the familiar surroundings. I recalled I used to walk along the same paths, on a daily basis, as frequently as duty demanded. One day, we all followed our principal out of the Main Gate.
This was a clear case of assassination. There were two other persons with him according to reports. The assassins, true to type, identified their quarry, murdered him and didn’t bother about the witnesses. It is all the more curious because Gulak has a recent history of association with Imo State. He was the leader of the APC team that organized the controversial party primaries in Imo State ahead of the 2019 Gubernatorial elections.
In terms of military aircraft strength, Nigeria is ranked 65 out of 140 countries in a 2021 Global Firepower Index, far behind Egypt (10), Algeria (22). Morocco (40), Sudan (51), Tunisia (58) and Kenya (59). But whereas it is generally agreed that Nigeria needs to re-tool, fund, and re-position its military, especially in the face of the spread of terrorism,