Author: Magnus Onyibe
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Election 2023 as giant killer, end of incumbency power? – By Magnus Onyibe
When the 10th National Assembly, NASS resumes after the inauguration of the new president on 29 May,most of the current members of the Senate and House of Representatives in both the red and green chambers of NASS would be strangers.
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PVC, petrol and redesigned Naira as weapons for election 2023 – By Magnus Onyibe
Forget the loud noises about who is more corrupt amongst the three leading contenders for the office of the president of Nigeria from 29 May -Asiwaju Bola Tinubu of All Progressives Congress,APC, Wazirin Atiku Abubakar of Peoples Democratic Party,PDP and Mr Peter Obi of Labor Party,LP.
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Synergistic gaps between CBN and banks in Naira redesign – By Magnus Onyibe
With the recent discovery of caches of the redesigned naira notes with unbroken wrappers inside Automated Teller Machines,ATMs making it impossible for cash to be dispensed and revelations that stacks of redesigned naira notes are hidden behind old ones in bank vaults to prevent detection,it is a no brainer to reach the conclusion that Deposit…
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The umbrage war between Atiku & Tinubu campaigns – By Magnus Onyibe
In the past couple of weeks,allegations of corruption against the presidential candidates of the leading contenders for the office of the president of the federal republic of Nigeria has taken center stage.
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Why were heads of CBN and INEC under siege from security agencies? – By Magnus Onyibe
There is currently a limit to the amount of cash that individuals and corporate bodies can withdraw from their bank accounts across the counter in Nigeria.
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Why ANAP/NoI 2023 election polls equate witchcraft predictions – By Magnus Onyibe
To drive home the impact and import of an election polling exercise in our local Nigerian environment,l would like to implore readers to allow me use the allegory in the famous English literature book:Macbeth written by William Shakespeare which is a fable set in Elizabethan Age England (about 4 centuries ago) to illustrate the mindset…
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Skullduggery as OBJ claims moral authority, writes letter to youth – By Magnus Onyibe
Former president, general ( chief ) Olusegun Obasanjo,OBJ inadvertently revealed his agenda or motive for endorsing mr Peter Obi when he wrote in his 1st January sensational letter to Nigerian youth goading them to vote for Mr Peter Obi as president on 25 February this year. Referring to Mr Peter Obi, he wrote: “In other…
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Etymology of Atiku Abubakar as stepping stone for Igbo presidency – By Magnus Onyibe
As it may be recalled, a great deal of verbal missiles were hauled at Anambra state governor and former Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN governor, professor Chukwuma Charles Soludo when he contended in a recently published article titled: ”History Beckons And I shall Not Be Silent (part1)”, that nobody from the lgbo nation has a…
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Qatar 2022: A Moment In History For Football And Africa – By Magnus Onyibe
The quote “It is time for Africa” captured the feelings of most Nigerians and indeed Africans during the just concluded football fiesta FlFA World Cup 2022 held in Qatar,a tiny gulf country in the Arab world from 20th November to 18 December.
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The Donald Trump Magnus Onyibe Doesn’t Know – By Magnus Onyibe
For the sake of transparency,I need to be upfront about the origin of the title of this essay. It is not coined by me but by an angry reader of my last article on the immediate past United States of America,USA president,Donald J Trump.