The GoNigeria Initiative has announced the names of young Nigerians who won the top three prizes in the GoNigeria English Rap Challenge. GoNigeria organised the Rap competition to encourages youth participation in the electoral process. In a statement, titled, “Winners emerge in the GoNigeria English Rap Challenge”, the group announced Didam Jonah Duniya, from Kaduna…
Concerned about the state of the nation, I returned over the weekend to Professor Adam Przeworski’s seminal work, Crises of Democracy, to make sense of the present, the prospects of democracy and the portents of the democratic order, and to answer the questions citizens ask across the length and breadth of our country- what democracy…
By Sylvanus Tyoakaa, Abuja The senate on Tuesday resumed plenary, promising to expedite action on the Electoral Act Amendment Bill which was rejected by President Muhammadu Buhari. The Senate President, Ahmad Lawan stated this on Tuesday in an address delivered at the start of plenary to welcome Senators back from the Christmas and New Year…
Parents of the 29 remaining abducted students of the Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation, Afaka, Kaduna, have appealed to well meaning Nigerians to help raise fund for the release of their children. Addressing a press conference on Friday in Kaduna spokesman of the parents Mr. Friday Sanni said the bandits had threatened to marry the…
The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), has warned that the resort hate speech, insults and threats of violence by some politicians are a threat to the peaceful conduct of the 2023 general elections. In a statement on Sunday in Kaduna, the forum said despite the security and economic problems facing the country, some desperate politicians and…
The Supreme Court has temporarily stopped moves by Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to ban the use of the old naira notes by February 10, 2023. A seven-member panel led by Justice John Okoro halted the plan in a ruling in an exparte application brought by three northern states of Kaduna, Kogi and Zamfara. The…
