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2027: Afenifere, Adebayo, Bakita Bello, Arabambi, Ogunsuyi, others react to APC Muslim-Muslim ticket

Dayo Johnson, Olasunkanmi Akoni, Rotimi Ojomoyela, Shina Abubarka, James Ogunnnaike & Deola Badru Stakeholders have expressed divergent views over the All Progressives Congress (APC)’s decision to retain its Muslim-Muslim presidential ticket ahead of the 2027 general election, with some arguing that competence should take precedence over religion, while others called for greater inclusiveness and a […]
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Wages of Impunity, By Wole Soyinka

The dancing obscenity of Shekau and his gang of psychopaths and child abductors, taunting the world, mocking the BRING BACK OUR GIRLS campaign on internet, finally met its match in Nigeria to inaugurate the week of September 11 – most appropriately. Shekau’s danse macabre was surpassed by the unfurling of a political campaign banner that defiled an entry point into Nigeria’s capital of Abuja. That banner read: BRING BACK JONATHAN 2015.

Exclusive Video: See the collapse of Synagogue building

See the footage as captured by security cameras of the moment before the guest-house collapsed at the Synagogue Church, Friday, last week where atleast 40 people were confirmed dead.

Vanguard gathered that this footage was edited for broadcast by Emmanuel TV and shown by Prophet T.B. Joshua to his congregation during service on Sunday 14th April 2014.

I am not an ethnic jingoist — INEC boss

The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof. Attahiru Jega, last Wednesday, addressed the media on the Commission’s controversial proposal to create 30,000 additional polling units across the country. He answered questions from reporters who attended the briefing. Below are excerpts of the question and answer session.

Polling Units’ Scandal: Jega’s theory and the dangers ahead

The attempt, last Wednesday, by Professor Attahiru Jega, National Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to explain away the inherent incongruity in allocating Polling Units, PUs, to states of the federation with less probability of having more voting population, an exercise that should have been carried out relying on field data, only served to further pour cold water on the Chairman of Nigeria’s election management body.

How risky surgery enabled me walk again— Ayo Adewemimo, 17-year-old sickle cell patient

Ayo Adewemimo is not your regular kind of teenager. He is not the typical 17-year-old adolescent that relishes boyish acts such as playing hooky from school or indulging in a three-a-side football game on a cold, wet afternoon. And perish any thought of hoping to observe Ayo having the time of his life at an all-night party or sneaking out for a joyride in the family car. Young Ayo just isn’t the outgoing type.

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