An election observer group, the Independent Service Delivery Monitoring Group (ISDMG) has warned that any attempt to tarnish the integrity of the head of the Electoral Management Body (EMB) through orchestrated media campaigns will have dire consequences on future elections and the nation’s democracy. Addressing journalists in Abuja, ISDMG Executive …
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Dr Chima Amadi Typical of the Nigerian body politic, the political cloud has gathered around the semantic of one word: restructuring. This word, to the undiscerning is being portrayed as holding the keys, indeed, the Midas-touch-solution to every ill that has bedeviled the Nigerian nation (Vanguard’s Ochereome Nnanna holds this view too). We have been here before. During the period of …
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South-South leaders on Tuesday described the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Odigie-Oyegun as a role model and a suave politician. “Chief John Odigie-Oyegun is a visionary leader and a bridge builder. His thorough leadership style has inspired Nigerians” the leaders said. The leaders, under …
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A Court of Appeal sitting in Benin, the Edo State Capital has affirmed the Prophet Jones Erue-led Executive of the All Progressives Congress in Delta State thereby vacating an earlier judgment by an Asaba High Court which nullified the congress that produced the executive. The court, in a ruling delivered …
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The Osun State Governor, Mr. Rauf Aregbesola, has said Dr. Deji Adeleke may have gone mad because of the death of his brother, Senator Isiaka Adeleke. Aregbesola said this in Ede on Wednesday at the campaign of the candidate of the All Progressives Congress in the Osun West Senatorial District …
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FORMER Minister of Federal Capital Territory, Oloye Jumoke Akinjide, and two other chieftains of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Olanrewaju Otiti and Senator Ayo Adeseun who are standing trial over N650m allegedly collected for the funding of the 2015 election in Oyo State were Thursady granted bail by a Federal …
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A Delta High Court in Sapele has sacked Obro Philomena Asamah , Councillor representing Ward 17 in Sapele Local Government and has declared Mr. Ibiuke Monday the winner of the Delta State Local Government Council general election conducted on the 25th day of October 2014. “The purported nomination of Asamah …
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The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has said that the executive branch has a ” robust mechanism” to resolve any differences between it and the legislative arm of government. Mr. Mohammed stated this on Wednesday while addressing State House correspondents after the meeting of the Federal Executive Council, …
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*By Martins Oloja* We can’t deny that we always doze off at the point of our need for purposeful leadership. We have never been vigilant about quality political recruitment in our journey through democratisation. One of our icons, Professor Chinua Achebe, saw this long ago and in 1983, he wrote …
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THE Leader of Abia State House of Assembly, Mr. Chinedum Orji has called on the leaders and stakeholders of the main opposition party, PDP, to stop the infighting, blame game and bickering over the loss in the 2015 election, saying that the party failed because the leaders did not plan …
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