Tag: Politics
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Schools, Families and Politics of Covid-19, By Michael West
By Michael West Apparently caving under intense pressure, the federal government has agreed to partial reopening of academic activities in schools starting with students in terminal classes in secondary schools. Till now, government is yet to convince the public on its rationale to open economic and political activities while schools remain on lockdown. Nigeria is…
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Reps to review 1999 constitution, include 35% women inclusion in politics
A House of Representatives Bill for an Act to amend the 1999 Constitution to reserve thirty-five percent of political offices for women in the country, will be presented for stakeholder-input in September. The Bill entitled, “A Bill for An Act to Amend the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria(1999) as Amended To Provide for…
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James Manager @60: A silent political broker in Delta politics
Senator James Manager a lawyer is one Nigerian lawmaker that has remained steadily progressive in his parliamentary duties since 2003. He talks less but remains firm when he is trying to drive home a point during debates in the Red Chamber. Last year, Manager sent chilling messages across Delta state when he told a former…
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The Politics Of Tinubu Obsession – Azu Ishiekwene
National leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has very strong enemies and a few of them would not wait for him to die before burying him. As soon as there were indications last week that President Muhammadu Buhari had withdrawn support for APC Chairman, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, the floodgate of…
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POLITICS WITHOUT PRINCIPLES
By Sonnie Ekwowusi Following the dissolution last Thursday by President Buhari of the Adams Oshiomhole-led All People’s Progressives Congress (APC) National Working Committee (NWC) and the appointment of Yobe State Governor, Mai Mala Buni, as the Chairman of APC Caretaker Committee which has now replaced the defunct APC NWC, it appears that the pseudo-mystique and…
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[TNG Analysis] Ondo 2020: APC’s politics of acrimony as Akeredolu throws caution to the wind
By Emman Ovuakporie Governor Rotimi Akeredolu is a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN with so many years of legal practice attached to his tall credentials. A former President of Nigeria Bar Association, NBA with an impeccable record to display. But events unfolding in his Sunshine State clearly indicate that his immaculate records needed to be…
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The crab mentality and the minority junction of Nigerian politics – Mideno Bayagbon
By Mideno Bayagbon I have spent countless hours pondering over the crab mentality among politicians from the Niger Delta region. It surprises me to no end, how they self immolate, inflict damages on themselves, their peers and their zone with selfish impunity. It usually starts out from failure to understand that there is unity in…
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Senate President blames Nigeria’s problems on ‘the world’
President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has attributed the inability of the Nigerian military and other security outfits to contain the disturbing nation’s insecurity to international politics. He said international politics was slowing down efforts aimed at acquiring sophisticated machinery needed by the security agencies to do their jobs. Lawan spoke on Sunday in an…
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Edwin Clark: Celebrating Nigeria’s encyclopedia of political anatomy @93
By Emman Ovuakporie It was in November 2007 that I met Chief Edwin Kiagbodo Clark at the Denis Osadebey Government House in Benin City for the first time as a career journalist. The news just filtered in that the voice of the South South was in government house to visit the then governor of the…