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Driving through Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC) streets during the recent Federal Capital Territory (FCT) elections, I witnessed what members of the political class seem uninterested in hearing. Polling units that should have buzzed with civic energy were attended by more party agents and security personnel than actual voters. With 65,676 votes recorded for all the […]
Continue Reading“On matters of security, the bulk (sic) stops at the President’s table.” ―Bola Ahmed Tinubu, April 2014 On 26 January 2009, Mamman Bello Ali died. He was the governor of Yobe State in north-east Nigeria. At around the same time, an anti-terrorism campaign by the government of Nigeria in Yobe State and its neighbour, Borno State, was […]
Continue ReadingLagos lawyer and rights activist, Femi Falana SAN, has on Sunday, called for a review of the judgments delivered by the Court of Appeal which sacked three state governors. Falana made the call during an interview on Channels Television’s ‘Sunday Politics’ programme, Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had declared Abba Yusuf (Kano), Dauda Lawal […]
Continue ReadingMasked thugs on Saturday invaded some polling units at Ward D, Igando/Ikotun, Lagos State, and chased away voters in queue. The thugs chased away the voters with sticks and knives at the polling units located at Ijegun Community School. The polling units include 096, 116, 281, 094, 095 and 084. A News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) […]
Continue ReadingOnwards to Nigeria’s 2023 general elections, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), on Monday, accused some politicians of buying up Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) and financially inducing voters to harvest their Voter Identification Numbers (VINs). The commission also said that two persons have been recently convicted for illegal possession of PVCs in Sokoto and Kano […]
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