Tag: Evaristus Bassey
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Why 2022 Electoral Act is a game changer – By Evaristus Bassey
Recently Buba Galadima was quoted as saying that they in New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) have moved on and are preparing for 2027 or 2031, as election tribunals in Nigeria have never taken the seat from someone who had been declared
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The returning officer’s power of veto – By Evaristus Bassey
I do not think there is any single event in our entire history as a nation that has capacity to bring down morale and corrupt morals as much as the conduct of the just concluded 2023 elections, especially with regard to the presidential elections. I recall a story told about an encounter between a wealthy…
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Reforming Ibom Air’s Beneficiary Program – By Evaristus Bassey
Ibom Air has a wonderful beneficiary program for its staff, especially the air hosts and hostesses that allows their relatives fly at a highly subsidized rate. At employment, a staff is given an opportunity to present five names that would benefit from this gesture. Each year they are given an opportunity to review the names.
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Why God didn’t stop INEC – By Evaristus Bassey
In this write up, I want to reflect on a point made by the Archbishop of Calabar, Most Rev Joseph Ekuwem to the effect that Nigerians like saying “God help us” when they themselves do nothing to help themselves. This was during the funeral of the Emeritus Archbishop of Calabar Joseph Edra Ukpo who died…
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The gains of the great loss – By Evaristus Bassey
I read the fact check on the Plateau boy that was said to have killed himself after the announcement of the presidential election results because he felt there was no hope for Nigeria in the next twenty years as Obi did not win, and the verdict was that it was fake news since the picture…
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Nigeria’s feudal democracy – By Evaristus Bassey
Nigeria is strategic to various interests. With the ongoing elections, various powers would already have been at play to engage for outcomes favouring their interests. What we do know is that unlike the former Christian nations of Europe that have become quite secularized, many of the rich Islamic nations are active in promoting their religion…
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Mahmood’s expected declaration – By Evaristus Bassey
Months before the 2023 general elections I and my childhood friend would discuss the elections and conclude that even if the opposition won every vote, APC would not handover power after a paltry eight years in office! At first, we thought the key to this incumbency
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By their choices, you shall know them – Evaristus Bassey
This article is about the choice of vice-presidential candidates that principals of major parties have made, and how a review of those choices could give us a glimpse of the decision making ability of the presidential candidates. We shall limit our focus on the three leading candidates: Peter Obi, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and
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Whoever wins as president, Nigeria is set to be better – By Evaristus Bassey
I may have my political preferences but I am not disillusioned to think that things cannot go sideways, as we are in Nigeria where everything is possible especially that which is impossible. Democracy is a game of numbers, and it is possible that despite all the facts that have emerged concerning the candidates of the…
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Atiku, Kwankwaso and the case of two biblical prostitutes – By Evaristus Bassey
In the first Book of Kings, an event is recounted to portray the wisdom of King Solomon. Two prostitutes, living in the same apartment, gave birth to a male child each, two days apart. It happened that one of the prostitutes suffocated her child in her sleep, so she woke up and took the other…