2015: North VS South (1): INEC gives North fresh advantage
In what many are describing as a gambit with the potential for dangerous and unimaginable consequences, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, led by Professor Attahiru Jega, may have set itself up for opprobrium from a section of the Nigerian nation. Its recently announced 30,000 new Polling Units, PUs, has been distributed across the country. Yet, in a curious twist of logic, the cleaning of the Voter Register, VR, which has seen many states in the northern part of Nigeria lose ‘GHOST VOTERS’ in their millions, have been allocated a whopping 21,615 (twenty one thousand, six hundred and fifteen) PUs, as against a meagrely 8,412 (eight thousand, four hundred and twelve).
Let him that would move the world first move himself
I don’t usually agree with IBB, but he recently made rather valid point that it is difficult to ignore; the use of soldiers during elections. I did mention exactly this concern last week that I feared that the FG is setting up a dangerous precedent and the fear of breeding future guns for hire.
LG primary: Ewu PDP leaders deny hand-picking candidate
THE Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, elders, leaders and ward chairmen in Ewu axis and Olomu in Ughelli South local government of Delta State, have denied claims by some aggrieved chairmanship aspirants from Ewu, Olomu and Ughievwen that the party leaders hand-picked candidate for the chairmanship election, saying that primary election was the most harmonious and transparent in the history of the council area.
Olajumoke, Alaba Job extol Adefuye at 70
A church auditorium has been donated to St Mary’s Catholic Church Odolewu, Ogun State by elder statesman, Senator Anthony Adefuye as part of activities marking his weeklong 70th birthday.
Boosting African talents through innovation: The SAP example
Foreign Direct Investment plays an extraordinary and growing role in global business. It is usually characterized by new markets and marketing channels, access to new skills, technology and financing, among others
I agree with IBB
Last week, the media was replete with tributes marking the 73rd birthday anniversary of former President Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (IBB). I was also thrilled by the interview he granted on the occasion where he made two profound and related pronouncements-one, that it is dangerous to involve the military in elections and the other, that the Nigerian Military would soon be compromised. Last year, some top army personnel and the leadership of our electoral body were not too happy with me for expressing similar opinions. Now that a personality like Babangida has publicly expressed the same “offending” opinions, I have no option than to ‘agree with IBB’.
