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Election rigging: Universities should reply Obi, by Tonnie Iredia

A scathing recent remark by the presidential candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress NDC, Mr. Peter Obi that Nigerian professors now help illiterates to rig elections in the country must have disconcerted many citizens.  It is certainly a remark which keeps Nigeria quite low in the comity of nations more so as it shows the irony […]
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Abia’s pathetic election conundrum

I PARTICIPATED in the coverage of the Presidential and National Assembly Elections in Lagos on March 28th 2015. The election was an unqualified success because everything the Federal Government and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) put in place worked according to plan.

My long experience with Buhari — 2

In part one I listed two Governors exonerated by the Tribunal – Chief Ajasin UPN- Ondo State) and Alhaji Jakande (UPN-Lagos State). There was another honourable man Dr Clement Isong (UPN –C/River). Isong was also a former Governor of the Central Bank about whom the Tribunal said “he handled the State’s funds with the highest standard of professionalism and ethics”. I apologise to the good people of Cross River and to Isong’s family for the omission. This is history. Also note that all three were from the South and UPN; no northerner among them and no NPN governor – the Hausa/Fulani Party – was set free.

Xenophobia: Dear South Africans, blame your leaders, not foreigners

There are various video clips circulating on social media networks of the xenophobic attacks going on in the former apartheid country, South Africa. When I first came across one of these clips earlier this week, my initial reaction was to ignore it and turn over to reputable broadcast news outlets to see if I can get more stories and probably watch “clean” videos of these attacks.

Embarrassing God

One day, at three o’clock in the morning, the Lord woke me up to spend some time with him. In the middle of the fellowship, he gave me a strange instruction. He asked me to move the settees from my den upstairs into the main living-room downstairs, and to move the ones downstairs upstairs.

Worrisome Gangsterism in the South West

Our brethren in the South West have so much to thank God for. To start with, they easily constitute the largest group of Nigeria’s educated citizens; courtesy of having a visionary leader, Obafemi Awolowo early in the nation’s development process. Consequently, they are ahead of us all in the capacity of a people to know and demand their rights.

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