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A concerned group, Society for Neighbourhood Peace and Development, SONPED, has urged all stakeholders in the forthcoming Edo and Ondo states governorship elections to work towards achieving a peaceful electioneering process.
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Following in the heels of sanctions on election riggers in Nigeria by the United States of America, USA, the United Kingdom, UK, embassy in Nigeria has also threatened to sanction anyone connected to election violence in the build-up to, and during elections in Edo and Ondo states.
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We have seven days to go until elections are held in my beloved Edo State, home to a long history of a great people and great Kings who by sheer brute strength and wisdom grew a small city into a large empire, stretching through the entire present-day Yorubaland, except for Ijebu Kingdom through Dahomey and Togo to present-day Southern Ghana.
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A Nigerian soldier in the Operation Lafiya Dole in Borno state has allegedly killed a nine-year-old boy in Shehuri area of Maiduguri, the state capital. According to TheCable’s report, residents said the soldier, was shooting sporadically in celebration of one of his friends who had just obtained a form to contest for councillor in the
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Former President Goodluck Jonathan and United Nations Special Envoy on Crisis Management, has said that electronic voting was the only way to get credible elections in Nigeria and the rest of Africa. Speaking on the presidential panel of The Osasu Show Symposium 2020, Jonathan said the outcome of elections should be decided by the ballots,
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By Ozioruva Aliu – Benin City Wife of Edo state deputy governor, Mrs Maryann Shaibu, has petitioned the State Commissioner of Police over an alleged threat to life by the immediate past Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole. In the petition dated September 8 through her counsel, Idemudia Ilueminosen & Co
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In 1969, late Prime Minister of Great Britain, Dame Margaret Thatcher, speaking in the House of Commons had declared: “No woman in my time will be Prime Minister or Chancellor or Foreign Secretary.”
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By Omeiza Ajayi The Independent National Electoral Commission INEC has again expressed commitment to conducting free and fair governorship elections in Edo and Ondo state, assuring that it has no interest in who emerges as governor of both states. Chief Press Secretary CPS to the INEC Chairman, Mr. Rotimi Oyekanmi stated this on Monday at
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To those still harbouring weak, doubtful and clouded faith in the strength of All Progressives Congress, APC, as the leading party in Africa’s most populous democracy, the flag-off of the Ondo State APC governorship campaign on Saturday, September 5, provides a convincing clarification to all doubting minds.
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The field includes a revered internationally-acknowledged security expert, touted as the most trusted politician in Anambra State, Ambassador Vincent Oligbo. A philanthropist, who had since this Covid-19 pandemic, shown he could replicate his international standards here at home, Oligbo studied law at the University of East London, Longbridge Road, London.
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