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The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has, Friday, corrected the notion in some quarters that being in possession of Specimen ballot papers before election is not legal.
Read More IN August, shortly after defecting from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to the All Progressives Congress, APC, former governor and current senator, Godswill Akpabio, was reported as declaring that the takeover of Akwa Ibom State by his new party would be like Hitler’s 1940 invasion of Poland. “Warsaw saw war and war saw Warsaw”, Akpabio said, at the funeral service of his grand mother-in-law at Aguebu-Owa, in Ezeagu Local Government Area of Enugu State. “We can’t talk politics in the church; but in 2019, Warsaw shall see war and war shall see Warsaw. The return will be victory. May God grant us victory”.
Read More Capital market operators that spoke to Money Digest about the state of the Nigerian stock market have lamented that the activities of politicians is affecting the economy and is also taking a toll on the capital market which is regarded as the mirror of the economy.
Read More I’VE spent the past few weeks in Nigeria, doing a lot of informal opinion-polling, as in randomly sounding all sorts of people out about their political views, their fears and their hopes for the future.
Read More Nigeria’s leading political actors were all about in the outgoing week projecting themselves and seemingly rewriting history. It was, however, a different matter for the majority of the apolitical class.
Read More AHEAD of the 2019 general elections, the National Chairman of the National Action Council, NAC, Dr. Olapade Agoro, yesterday, asked a Federal High Court to order the Independent National Electoral Commission, INCE, to de-register all political parties whose members admitted they collected N100m from the previous administration.
Read More THE absence of internal democracy in a political party is one sure prescription for the party’s demise. Nothing is more important to the continued existence of a political party than the selection of candidates for office because some of these candidates will eventually run the government.
Read More AS countdown begins for another general elections, Delta State Governor, Senator Dr Ifeanyi Okowa has urged elected office holders to reflect on their performance to the electorates within the past three years.
Read More Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday said he would approve a new law to reduce the age limit for political office, raising the prospect of younger candidates at next year’s general election.
Read More Except Nigeria addresses the political and constitutional reforms system, it’s economy recovery plan may not be achieved, as over 70 percent of its resources will be spent on recurrent expenditures and other dysfunctional political uncertainties, the Chief Executive Officer, RTC Advisory Services, Opeyemi Agbaje, said.
Read More Again, we are in the political silly season. Not that it just kicked off. No, Nigeria is a country in a permanent state of politicking. In reality, there is never time for governance. The end of one election circle jumpstarts another and the actions of incumbents are informed not by the desire to deliver on good governance but the need to win the next election.
Read More The risk of political and economic confrontations between major powers, including outright military conflicts, has risen sharply, according to a survey released by the World Economic Forum (WEF) days before its annual gathering in Davos.
Read More Senate President Bukola Saraki on Saturday said Nigeria would only attain greatness in unity.
Read More Chairman emeritus of DAAR Communications Plc and chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), High Chief Raymond Dokpesi alongside a former Chairman of the Labour Party, LP, Mr. Dan Nwanyawu, have floated a new party, Advanced Peoples Democratic Alliance (APDA) in Abuja to oust the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, party in the coming 2019 general elections.
Read More Fred Odemwingie Okhomina is among the first generation of psychiatric doctors in Nigeria. Okhomina went into psychiatry after his mentor, Dr Adeoye Lambo, advised him to go into it. In this interview, Okhomina, who recently celebrated his 80th birthday, speaks on why he was influenced by his mentor to study that branch of medicine, corruption in Nigeria and the need to subject political office holders to psychiatric test.
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