Activists in court after Myanmar student rally crackdown
Dozens of Myanmar activists shouted messages to relatives from packed prison vans outside a court Wednesday after being detained in a violent student protest crackdown that sparked international condemnation and fears of a return to junta-era repression. Student-led rallies calling for education reform have twice been brutally suppressed in recent days, drawing fierce criticism from overseas and Aung San Suu Kyi's opposition, which said the tactics echoed those used under the former military government.
Soyinka accuses presidency of using vulgar language at campaigns
Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka has condemned what he described as crudity and vulgar abuse of language that has dominated the electioneering campaigns in the country and blamed the presidency as the major culprit.
FG spends over N34bn on tertiary institutions in Kano — Sambo
The Vice President, Mohammed Namadi Sambo, has said that the Federal Government, has so far expended over N34 billion on the provision of various developmental programmes and projects on higher institutions in Kano State.
Illegality of Jega’s terminal leave
BEFORE the simulated postponement of the general election scheduled to hold on February 14 & 28, 2015, Chief Edwin Clark and some ethnic champions had called for the removal of the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Attahiru Jega. On account of the closeness of the group to the Presidency not a few Nigerians believed that the Federal Government had decided to fire the INEC helmsman.
Clark’s wife attacked by hoodlums in Abeokuta
ABEOKUTA—There was pandemonium yesterday in Abeokuta when hoodlums suspected to be loyal to one of the political parties, attacked wife of elder statesman, Chief Edwin Clark, Dr. Bisola Sodipo-Clark and her supporters in the Sokori area of Abeokuta North Local Government Area, Ogun State.
Nigerians must resist using military to shift polls – JAF
One of Nigeria’s frontline and vociferous civil societies group, the Joint Action Front, JAF, yesterday, called on the Federal Government, Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, and the security operatives never to shift the forthcoming polls, billed for March 28 and April 11, urging the Nigerian electorate to resist whatever reasons that may be given for a further shift.
