Dr Joseph Wayas (77) is the first Senate President to act as President of Nigeria. That was in 1983 following the absence of President Shehu Usman Aliyu Shagari (93)and his…
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2019 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION: ASSESSING THE POSSIBILITY OF ELECTORAL FRAUD
by Reporter September 10, 2018By Omoshola Deji After about thirty years of stern military rule, Nigeria re-embraced democracy in 1999 and five elections have produced Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo (two terms), Umaru Yar’Adua, Goodluck Jonathan…
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How President Buhari Got It Wrong On His ‘Rule Of Law, National Interest’ Speech – Reuben Abati
by Reporter August 28, 2018It is unfortunate that the most important statement made so far at the on-going Annual Conference of the Nigeria Bar Association, an outright derogation of the supremacy of the rule…
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The Challenge Of Cowering Down Or Standing Up To Buhari – The Curious Case Of Godswill Akpabio
by Online Source August 10, 2018By Oraye St. Franklyn Adversity has been known to bring out with the best or worst in us, depending on the strength of our character. In a space of a few…
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Ekiti 2018 Governorship Election: Foretelling The Outcome By Omoshola Deji
by Reporter July 12, 2018Democracy is basically the right of the governed to elect who governs. The people of Ekiti State, Southwest, Nigeria, would troop out on July 14 to elect who’ll govern them…
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Nigeria now has the Highest rate of extreme poverty in the World.
by Igbokwe John June 27, 2018Nigeria is mostly single-handedly ruining the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) to end extreme poverty by 2030. How? Well, a new report by The World Poverty Clock shows that Nigeria has now…
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‘Where is our N20 Trillion?’, KOWA Presidential Aspirant, Sina Fagbenro-Byron Exposes NASS’ Anti-People Stamp Duty Amendment Bill 2018
by Reporter June 24, 2018Popular Lagos lawyer, and KOWA Presidential aspirant, Sina Fagbenro-Byron (SFB), has alerted the nation, especially the 36 states of the country, on the illegality that the federal government, in connivance…
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Khalifa Sheikh Isyaku Rabi’u was a remarkable man with multiple talents. He was born in 1928 to the family of Muhammad Rabi’u Dan Tinki, a Qur’anic preacher from Bichi in…
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Even with our internal political crisis in January 1966, the Commonwealth selected Nigeria to host a peaceful meeting to resolve the crisis of Southern Rhodesia now Zimbabwe following the threat…
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It is a sign of the times, and a tragedy that the most popular Senator in the Nigerian National Assembly at this moment is not the person who has…