As campaigns begin in August: Can technology deliver credible elections in Nigeria? By Ejiro Ofoye
As political campaigns officially begin this August, Nigerians are once again confronted with the defining question that has shaped every election since the return to democratic rule in 1999: will the votes truly count? While political parties mobilise supporters, unveil manifestos and traverse the country in search of votes, millions of Nigerians remain concerned not only […]
Ese Oruru in police custody, near delivery
YENAGOA- FOURTEEN-year-old Miss Ese Oruru, aka “Government Child,” looking wild, March 2, when she returned to Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, from where she was abducted, six months earlier, by Yunusa Dahiri, aka Yellow and taken to Kano and forced into early marriage, has reclaimed her serenity, and is now in the third trimester (40 months)of her pregnancy.
How gunmen butchered 5 cops, 6 civilians in Rivers
PORT HARCOURT— MORTAL fear has seized the people of Rivers State since last week when armed marauders murdered five police officers, including a Deputy Superintendent of Police, DSP Muhammadu Halidu and six civilians at Okobe in Ahoada West Local Government Area.
Drama as Bayelsa community deposes monarch over alleged absenteeism
OLUASIRI- A meeting convened, penultimate Saturday, by the people of Olusari, Nembe Local Government Area, Bayelsa State, to jaw-jaw on the security challenges and other issues besetting the riverine community took another dimension when enraged villagers overthrew their monarch for supposedly ruling them outside their homeland and insensitivity to the predicament.
Fuel hike: Buhari must apologise
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari owes us apologies for the latest hike from N86.50k to N145 of the official pump price for Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) announced on Thursday last week by his Deputy Minister of Petroleum, Dr. Emmanuel Kachikwu.
Federal government faces reality on bail-out
“…every Nigerian is now sober. The governors have realized now that this can happen and that oil prices can plummet from $100 to $28 within a short period of time, and that we can be so exposed that we can’t even pay salaries…”So there is a sobriety that has come in. So, we are working with the states and we are not bailing them out. We have said to them that we have a fiscal restructuring plan…”Whatever we are doing will be conditional. Mrs Adeosun, Federal Minister of Finance, May 5, 2016.
