Whoever came up with the wise saying that Nigerian politics is dirty deserves an award for perspicacity.
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Kano, March. 11, 2019 (NAN) Rabiu Bichi Chairman, Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) in Kano State, has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), to declare the party’s gubernatorial candidate, Alhaji Abba Kabir winner to avoid eruption of violence.
Neither clients of plastic surgery nor make-up, their natural beauty delights the eye in their smartly dressed military wear… Though innocent looking, pure and enticing, they remain feminine, while their line of duty is the traditional masculine career of fearless and courageous souls. They are the Nigerian Women of War in the Nigerian Air Force.
As the central bank and apex monetary authority of the country, the major regulatory objectives of the Central Bank of Nigeria as mirrored in the institution’s enabling Act are to maintain the external reserves of the country, promote monetary stability, a sound financial environment and to act as a banker of last resort.
After the arduous exercise of campaigning and electioneering for both the primary and general elections in Ekiti State last year, Dr. John Kayode Fayemi, All Progressives Congress candidate, was declared the elected Governor of Ekiti State.
The predicament that played out on March 1, 2019 in Bayelsa State is indeed a disaster like the others before it in the different parts of the country.
For Lagosians, this Saturday’s governorship election promises to be decisive. It will put many issues finally to bed. One of the issues that must be put to rest is the chasm that some are trying to create and exploit between Yoruba and Igbo people in Lagos. Even among brothers within the same family who love and care for each other, differences arise at times.
I woke up several times peeping for the first sign of dawn before my phone finally rang at 6:10am. A family friend who suspected we would be voting at the same place wanted to know if I was already at the booth because she couldn’t find it.
In 2015, the then opposition political party, All Progressives Congress, engaged the President Goodluck Jonathan Government in a bitter war of words on how to keep the Nigerian Army away from participating in that year’s general election. It was such a heated argument to the point that the court was involved and a ruling obtained, and in the end the military was stopped from taking part in the election.
On face value, the piece seemed to advocate the cause of the Igbo race, but a dispassionate analysis shows it for what it truly is: drivel meant to incite the Igbo against the Muhammadu Buhari administration, and further inflame passions that would pedestal the ethnic nationality against the rest of the federation
The Buhari regime has been, by any measure, a failure. If Nigeria does not focus its resources on basic human development and reduce violence – neither of which has happened under the current leadership – then the possibility for widespread violence is very real. In one of the most important countries in the world
I am very happy that President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress won again in 2019, but I am equally finding it difficult to celebrate the victory. While accurately predicting the outcome two weeks before the presidential election, I remarked that many Nigerians were not in a hurry to bring the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party back to power so soon
The attention of the Project Implementation Unit of the GEM Project has been drawn to misleading allegations in some sections of the media regarding the World Bank Growth and Employment Project.
“Good morning everyone, we are sorry to announce that Dana flight 9J-351 Lagos to Abuja has been cancelled,” an assistant manager of the Airline who didn’t bother to look back after dropping the bombshell on our laps told us in the early hour of November 8, 2018. It was 6:15am and that was the first flight out of Lagos.
Given the tension that enveloped last Saturday’s election in some parts of Lagos, I am supposed to hate the Igbo. Right?
On Saturday February 23 the Presidential Election was held. It was a fair and honest exercise that permitted the full expression of the sovereign will of the Nigerian people.
Charles Udoh, the Akwa Ibom State Commissioner for Information and Orientation, has confirmed the abduction of Iniobong Ekong, the Senior Special Adviser on Security Matters to Governor Udom Emmanuel.
The broadcast was made on Friday morning
Last week, when I described the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Mahmood Yakubu, as one of the most frequently executed men on social media, I had no idea what was coming.
At one of our monthly men’s fellowship breakfast meeting in Summerside Community Church, London Ontario, JM narrated a very interesting story. I wept inside me, as the story holds so true of my natal country, Nigeria. Sad as it is, I feel compelled to share it here in the hope Nigerians will learn and act. Here it goes.