4 RECs for Imo supplementary polls
The new supervisory Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, in the rescheduled governorship and House of Assembly elections in Imo State, Aniedi Abasi Ikoiwak, has said he was leading three other RECs that will handle the supplementary poll in the state
How to come second
HISTORY is not in a hurry to forget Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965), one American who was a most eloquent and witty candidate of the Democratic Party, but who remained unsuccessful in his bids for the number one position in the land. In 1952, Stevenson got drafted into the presidential race by the Democratic Convention in Chicago.
Have a banana on me
I was in my office one morning, when a colleague of mine sauntered in. Kay, as she was fondly called by me just went on and on…………”I have been gaining so much weight and all I tried was adding fruits to my diet, I am just fed up”.
FG urged to reduce cost of books
The Federal Government has been advised to remove import duty on paper, ink and other materials used by book publishers so as to reduce the cost of production of books and make books cheaper.
Elections – Many Changes, But…
THE applauses that the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has been getting, says something for the minimal standards under which we operate. People have mostly aligned with the provision of the Electoral Act where “substantial compliance” is acceptable.
Buhari’s anticipatory tears of failure and a national carnage
TUNDE Idiagbon was not around to see it. And if he were to still be here but didn’t see it he would have doubted the news about it. But it happened. Muhammadu Buhari (who with Tunde Idiagbon once overthrew democracy and held Nigeria with iron-stiff hands) ‘bathed’ us with tears recently.
Nigerians ‘ll no longer accept failures, Labour warns govt
From Akwa Ibom to Maiduguri, from Kano to Ekiti, from Ogun to Kogi and from Lagos to Abuja, the story is the same; unemployment, poverty, harsh living conditions, just name it.
Law and leadership in the 21st century Nigeria (4)
Election appeals similarly have a debilitating effect on the case flow management of the Court of Appeal because several members of the Bench of that Court are moved from one Division to another for the effective hearing and determination of the appeals.
Sales training for CEOs
The Managing Partner of the Hartfield-IMC Partnership, Mr. Tosin Oyelese, has enjoined Nigerians not to look down upon salespersons, saying “more than 85 per cent of the CEOs’ of most of the Fortune 500 companies were once sales executives.
From Lagos Black Heritage Festival
For the 2011Lagos Black Heritage Festival Consultant, Professor Wole Soyinka, the 2- week festival which opened on the 20th of April, was a double barreled and historic festival as it featured side by side with the Nigerian Festival of Democracy
Is Imo supplementary guber poll constitutional?
Tuesday, April 26,governorship election, which took place in 24 out of 36 states of the federation has spawned a new challenge to the nation’s electoral umpire, the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC.
