Nigerian elections:  Decline of academic integrity

By  Shu’aibu Usman Leman Professor Attahiru Jega’s well-intentioned initiative, aimed at bolstering the integrity of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) through the deployment of university academics in elections has, regrettably, descended into a quagmire of alleged electoral malfeasance. This deterioration has profoundly undermined the initial promise of enhanced probity and eroded public confidence in…

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Police Arrests Nollywood Actress

The Lagos state police command has arrested Funke Akindele, Nollywood actress, for hosting a house party, in violation to the lockdown order in the state government.She was picked up on Sunday evening and taken to the State Criminal Investigation Department, Panti (SCID), Yaba on Sunday evening.Spokesman of the Lagos Police Command, Bala Elkana, announced Akindele’s…

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Buhari to visit Kaduna on Thursday

President Muhammadu Buhari is expected in Kaduna on Thursday for a two-day working visit. Muyiwa Adekeye, spokesman to the Governor Nasir El-Rufai, disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday in Kaduna. Adekeye said, during the visit, the president “will commission several important projects”during the two-day visit from Thursday to Friday. According to the statement, Buhari will…

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The Coming Battle

Our nation has entered its harmattan, at a time the season has not reached its own cycle or begun the cyclical journey around itself. The harmattan, as we know it in our part, is that dry and lean period of the year when men, women, plants, and generally nature itself, give in to the hardships…

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2023: CAN urge Christians to get the PVCs

The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in Plateau state has asked Christians to get their permanent voter cards (PVCs) to participate in the 2023 elections. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the State Chairman of association, Rev. Fr. Polycarp Lubo, gave the advice at the 2022 lenten campaign launch of the Catholic Diocese…

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