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Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, and the Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yorubaland, Gani Adams, on Thursday, warned that Nigeria could end up having only one presidential candidate in the 2027 election if the judiciary continues to interfere in political party affairs. They spoke at the fifth Comrade Yinka Odumakin Memorial Lecture held at the Airport […]
Continue ReadingOn August 2, 1100, England’s King William II went hunting in the New Forest in southern England. During the chase, an arrow shot at a stag by his companion, the Norman nobleman Walter Tirel struck an oak tree, ricocheted, and pierced the king’s chest. The king died right there. The spot where he fell is […]
Continue ReadingPeoples Democratic Party (PDP) has inaugurated a special legal team to challenge the results of Saturday’s election held across the Area Councils of the Federal Capital Territory. As pronounced by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC) won five of the six chairmanship seats in the council elections. APC […]
Continue ReadingTelecommunication companies (TELCOs), including MTN Nigeria, Airtel, Globacom and T2 Mobile, have dismissed the excuses that there is not enough facilities to transmit election results electronically at real-time as half-truth. The TELCOs challenged the Senate to get accurate information from the telcom regulator, the NCC, rather than dishing out information that would not hold water […]
Continue ReadingGovernment of Ghana has recalled its High Commissioner to Nigeria, Mohammed Ahmed, following allegations linking him to electoral malpractice during a party primary election in Ghana. Ordered by President John Mahama, the recall was announced in a presidential statement issued on Saturday. According to the statement, the directive took immediate effect, with the Ministry of […]
Continue ReadingIn Nigeria, and in many countries with underdeveloped economies, the most important periods are the year right before a general election, the year of that election (when the winners emerge), and two years after that election (all the time the losers need to seethe over their losses as they await another opportunity). Elections are, of […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is set to receive a large sum of N1,013,778,401,602 in the 2026 budget presented to the National Assembly by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. The allocation, one of the largest in INEC’s history, comes as Nigeria gears up for the 2027 general elections. Details of the 2026 Appropriation Bill, released […]
Continue ReadingThe 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 […]
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