Fire! Fire!! Fire!!! in INEC Offices: Who Wants to Scuttle the Elections?

Three fire incidents in the space of a few days; and all with days before the presidential elections! Are these fires accidents? If so, could they have been prevented or …

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Elections 2019: Decision Week

The week we have been waiting for has come. This is the week of decision – decision about how and where Nigeria will be in the next four years. Many …

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ASUU Strike: Pressures and Conditions for its Suspension

A lecturer friend gleefully posted on one of our platforms last night: “ASUU Strike conditionally suspended”. My response was “Conditionally? Suspended?” The tautology was uncalled for. The way the thing …

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The New Face of the Nigeria Police

1. New Commissioners for State Commands  2. New AIGs 3. New DIGs/Management Team 4. New Force PRO 5. New Acting IG The changes sweeping through the Nigeria Police continued yesterday …

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EARLY POLLS BY INDEPENDENTS

EARLY POLLS BY INDEPENDENTS 1.WILLIAMS & ASSOCIATES POLLS With barely two weeks to the 2019 presidential election, prediction is already out that the candidate of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party …

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Election Polls, Predictions & Analyses

The polling agencies, media and clairvoyants have started publishing the reports of their researches on the outcome of next week’s presidential elections. In Europe and North America, polls are quite …

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Election 2019: The endorsement floodgate is open

Following on last Sunday’s endorsement of the PDP presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar by the socio-cultural associations who said they represent the North, South-West, South-East, South-South and Middle Belt, the floodgates …

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What’s in an endorsement?

News broke over the weekend of the endorsement of Atiku Abubakar, the PDP presidential candidate by a group of pan-Nigeria social cultural organisations.  The group, which met in Abuja on …

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DAVIDO ON TOP OF THE WORLD 

In the midst of all the stress of bad news, politics and other unsavoury happenstance that’s been plaguing us, at least one young Nigerian has achieved a high mark in …

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US Govt. Shutdown: Donald Trump Blinks First

And so it has happened.  US President Donald Trump has backed down from his position that his government will continue in shutdown mode unless the Congress approved funding for his …

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