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Southern governors’ gratuitous blackmail on 2023 presidency By Thu Jul 08 2021 If proof was ever needed that our political elite have learnt nothing from our political travails as a country, the outcome of the meeting of the 17 Southern governors in Lagos on Monday, July 5, 2021, was a stone cold affirmation of it. Rising from a five-hour conclave, the governors were in their usual petulant, grumpy, tantrum best; reeling out a laundry list of ultimatums on burning issues in the country rangin...

Yakasai noted that despite the huge national resources committed to that election, it was surprising that the election was annulled.

From facts, the presidential election was held on the said date, the first since the 1983 military coup ended the country's Second Republic. This was a transitional process from military rule to civilian rule.

Secession threat as a tool of blackmail By Fri May 07 2021 Since at least the early 90s, and in reaction to the military’s apparent foot-dragging to restore democracy in Nigeria then, clamour for secession has always been used as a tool of political blackmail against the Northern Nigerian political establishment. It’s widely assumed that Northern Nigeria’s particular commitment to a united Nigeria is purely for economic reasons, as it’s believed that the region is economically unviable ...

•How Nigeria surmounted 1953, 1963, 1973, 1983, 1993, 2003, 2013 hurdles By Clifford Ndujihe, Politics Editor GOING by the calendar of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, the 2023 presidential election is exactly 671 days away. On October 15, INEC National Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, announced February 18, 2023 as the date for the 2023 presidential contest. He made the disclosure at the inauguration of the House of Representatives committee on 1999 constitution review...

INSECURITY: Will 2023 polls hold? On Kindly Share This Story: …How Nigeria surmounted 1953, 1963, 1973, 1983, 1993, 2003, 2013 hurdles By Clifford Ndujihe, Politics Editor GOING by the calendar of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, the 2023 presidential election is exactly 671 days away. On October 15, INEC National Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, announced February 18, 2023 as the date for the 2023 presidential contest. He made the disclosure at the inauguration of the...

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Innocent Chukwuma Widow of late Innocent Chukwuma, Josephine Effah-Chukwuma has described the death of her husband and “best friend” which she revealed started as “mild food poisoning” as devastating. Innocent’s widow, Josephine Effah-Chukwuma wrote: “Yesterday April 3rd, 2021, I lost my best friend, my soul mate and brother Innocent C. Chukwuma to Acute Myeloid Lukaemia, AML. What started as a mild case of food poisoning on February 26, metamorphosed to an AML diagnosis on Good Fri...

Share Global Energy Executive and founding Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Gbenga Olawepo-Hashim is one of the few Nigerian leaders who combine a solid business record with a strong political background. In this interview with SANYA ADEJOKUN, he expresses confidence that Nigeria would overcome its current vicissitudes but insists that there must be comprehensive decentralization of power to sub-national governments.   DO you see Nigeria surviving this...

Background and incursion into politics I have been in business for about 30 years. I started public affairs in business and then went into energy sector, power generation, oil and gas. I’ve been involved in leadership since I was in secondary school as a prefect, and elected President of Drama Society, I was a student activist in the mid-80s up to the late 80s, I was also one of the pioneer human rights leaders in those days. I received the award of the Amnesty International “Prisoner of Co...