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One of the saddening part of the incident was; the president did not believe that the girls were abducted for almost 18 days after their abduction was made. Since the president got the information within 24 hours of the act, if he had reacted almost immediately, those girls would have been rescued before they got to their destination. Rather for the president to spring into actions after receiving briefings about the abduction, he doubted it

For starters, Buhari’s government should not allow itself to bear the burden of large retinue of ministers. The United States of America, the third largest country by size in the world and fourth largest in population, does not have a half of the number of cabinet members which Nigeria parades. The era of Minister of state, Minister in the Ministry, and other meaningless titles should not be allowed to rear its head in the new cabinet to be put together by Buhari

TELL THEM SOMETHING NEW

Tell them something new, that’s why you have the mic! Include a new piece of information in your speech. This might be a recent event that was not in the newspaper, a statistic you found from an uncommon source, a new plan that your company is introducing, or an insight you have because of a particular talent you have. Let the audience take away something they did not know before they heard you speak… and they will remember you for that

“All our gods are weeping. Idemili is weeping. Ogwugwu is weeping, Agbala is weeping and all others. Our dead fathers are weeping because of the shameful sacrilege they are suffering and the abomination we have all seen with our eyes.” He stopped again to steady his trembling voice

What the AIT’s experience illustrates is the emergence of a close set of relations between politicians, businessmen and the media that leads to a routine blurring of fairness, objectivity and public decency. In the AIT post-election analysis, what is clear is that there is no distinction between negative political messages, political marketing, demonisation, defamation, character assassination, party political broadcast, class and financial interest. What is not in conflict is Dokpesi’s overriding business and financial interests to follow survival logic and stay on the side of power no matter the consequences

This was exactly what the people of Jericho were going through. Their city is well situated. It was close to the richly-endowed River Jordan. It had streams running through it, and well secured because of its topography. But the land was barren and the water from the streams was bad; causing death, infertility and miscarriages. Terrible! What was the problem? The city was labouring under a heavy curse

The zoning of the position to the North Central thus narrows the choices to Abdullahi Adamu from Nasarawa State, George Akume of Benue State and Bukola Saraki of Kwara State

By and large, in a tough political contest like we just witnessed, rampage and bloodshed may occur with perennial crisis taking over the peaceful atmosphere of a nation. In a most dramatic manner, we have seen the incumbent President Jonathan conceding defeat and elected President Buhari acknowledging the gesture and restating his commitment to a peaceful transition

The best bet, though many incendiary, die-hard, autochthonous and irredentist Ogun West apologists would not concur with me, for a candidate from that senatorial district to be the governor of our dear state is 2019. To add more, I am not deeply sure an alliance between the Social Democratic Party and the PDP now (as being rumoured) would guarantee victory in Saturday’s poll for GNI

One of the recent activities that have made Fayose popular and controversial was his unrelenting attacks on the person of General Muhammad Buhari, the newly President-elect of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, who has just been elected on the platform of the All Progressives CongressOne of the recent activities that have made Fayose popular and controversial was his unrelenting attacks on the person of General Muhammad Buhari, the newly President-elect of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, who has just been elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress

While the Nigerians United for Democracy wrote that the “victory truly belongs to the Nigerian people”, Dr. Kayode Fayemi said “it is victory for democracy, it is victory for Nigeria and Nigerians”. Governor Ayo Fayose, in a manner of exceptional cunningness was not left out as he made sure he was the first to send a congratulatory message to the man he had said would die in office. To him, “Nigerians and democracy won

If anything, the outcome of the just concluded presidential election that saw the kicking out of a sitting President who hinged his campaign on such divisive antics should serve as a lesson for you. But most especially, I frown at your latest plot of making your support-base primarily an Igbo Agenda

Breezing into full blown politics in 2001, his mission was to build a State of happy people and thriving businesses living in peace, prosperity and dignity within the context of Nigeria

Never in the history of ‘die-in-the-office’ leaders had any one been generous and patriotic enough to willingly accept political defeat and usher his opponent to the Presidential or Prime Minister’s seat

As a matter of fact, the nation has joined the rank of nations that conduct peaceful, credible and acceptable elections

All over Africa, you hardly have any leader leave office the way the Nigerian president is doing. They fight and cause wars and chaos. Mr. President’s was an example to be emulated and commended. It has given Nigeria a good name in the comity of nations and left footprints for us younger ones to follow when we become leaders of tomorrow

As a Christian I must inform you of what I seem to be hearing from God for you. God is saying that if you must succeed, you will have to do and follow what the engrafted word of God, says in Jeremiah one verse ten. It reads: See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant. This must be your strategy, your manual, no more, no less. There are a lot of things that you must root out for you to succeed. Can I tell you something? Believe you me, this is the simple reason you won this election, and this explains your party philosophy of change

This was how your aggrandisement initiated the problems of PDP. Your actions gave rise to the “New PDP”. You called the dissenting PDP governors “JUDAS” and tried to ridicule them. As election approached, you misled the President to think that his success depended solely on PDP governors. So, strong PDP leaders were isolated and made inconsequential. You destroyed PDP just like you already did back home. The result is the humiliation of the 22 PDP governorship aspirants in Akwa Ibom State who scored no votes in your orchestrated primaries

Many of them were the farmers of the northern Nigerian cotton and groundnut pyramids. They formed the majority of the traders in the commercial city of Kano. They were the leather tanners and leather shoe and bags makers in the old Sokoto Empire. The cap weavers and tailors in Zaria city were said to be Almajiris

Few days ago, Nigeria went to the poll in an election that saw the incumbent President, Goodluck Jonathan, losing the race for a return ticket to the opposition candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari. And in an unprecedented reaction that shocked the world, Mr. Jonathan conceded defeat, saving Nigeria, West Africa and by extension the entire continent from going into flames