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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 House of Representatives committee on 1999 constitution review. Since the date was fixed the polity...

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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 Friday April 2nd and death on Saturday April 3rd. “Yes I HAVE BEEN HIT. Am I shaken? YES TO MY FOUNDA...

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 period? Nigeria is going to survive. Worse things have happened in many countries and they are stil...

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 Conscience” in 1989. Basically, I did four years after the first President in South Africa, Mandela,...