2027 campaigns: More details needed, by Tonnie Iredia
Immediately after the 2023 general elections, many politicians began illegal electioneering campaigns for the next set of elections scheduled for 2027. All efforts to remind them that they were abandoning governance which is the real essence of democracy and which should naturally follow elections failed. The truth however is that those cosmetic gestures across the nation […]
2019 Election Campaigns: Issues are missing!
If the candidates say nothing now, they will later deny what their supporters tell us daily. It is time to take our candidates to task
Imo State can win all awards on politics
Indeed, if a competition is organized today, Imo state will no doubt win all the awards among the states
Poor Image: Amnesty International is not Nigeria’s problem
Today’s world is characterized by tyranny, dictatorship and impunity thereby justifying the ceaseless campaigns by Amnesty International (AI) for an end to abuses of human rights across the globe. In the last couple of years, Nigeria has been one of the countries to which AI has directed its searchlight, finding quite often a multiplicity of human rights abuses. For the period 2017 to 2018, Amnesty reported on insurgency attacks, extrajudicial executions, enforced disappearances, and torture and other ill-treatment, which, in some cases, led to deaths in custody.
Nigeria requires a second peace accord
Painfully, we are not even sure that signatories to the accord intended to stand by it in a nation where political office holders hardly keep to what they promised during campaigns
Presidential candidates should speak substance now
President Buhari may be required to tell us now why he allowed two people or more to serve as distraction to his government
