By Shu’aibu Usman Leman Every electoral cycle in Nigeria begins with the same familiar spectacle. Political parties unveil elaborate timetables, aspirants purchase nomination forms worth tens of millions of naira, and party officials appear before television cameras promising “free, fair, and credible” primaries. Yet by the end of these exercises, what emerges bears little resemblance…
The Kaduna state chapter of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has kicked against “mass sack” of workers by the state government. Addressing a press conference on Wednesday in Kaduna, the state chairman of the union, Comrade Ayuba Suleiman, said Kaduna was faced with serious security challenges and dwindling businesses, caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, stressing…
The President of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Dr. Daniel Okoh, has urged Christian leaders and churches across the country to be non-partisan in election matters. He also called on Nigerians to be properly guided in making the right decisions in the next presidential election. According to The PUNCH, Okoh made the call in…
The Media Rights Agenda (MRA) has called on the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mr. Kayode Egbetokun, to put an end to the growing trend of public officials and other powerful individuals using the police to journalists who publish negative reports about them. In a statement in Lagos, Deputy Executive Director of MRA, Ayode Longe,…
A member of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Hon. Abdulsobur Olawale is dead. The lawmaker, who is the chairman, house committee on local government, was said to have slumped and died on Tuesday after attending the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential campaign flag-off in Jos, Plateau state. TheCable, quoted sources in the Lagos assembly…
The world is turning and reinventing itself to confront new destructive ideologies. Saudi Arabia is turning with it and reinventing itself. The country that once powered the most rigid streams of global Islam, born out of the teachings of Muhammed Ibn Abdulwahhab, is now rewriting its story and turning back on its less than glorious…
