By Abimbola Ogunnaike Ahead of 2023 elections kick starting with presidential poll Saturday, 25 February, 2023, the Commonwealth Observer Group (COG) has called on political parties, candidates and their supporters to play their part in ensuring peaceful and credible elections. The delegation leader of the observation mission, Thabo Mbeki, made the call during a at a press conference in Abuja on Monday, 20 February, 2023. Mbeki, a former President of South Africa, insisted that Nigerians can freely vote during the presidential and national assembly polls on Saturday, 25 February, 2023. While stating that the elections will be Africa’s largest democratic…
Author: Olamide Obayemi
The heavy crowd of All Progressives Congress (APC) members and followers in Agege had started assembling as early as 11am for the meeting scheduled for 3pm at the103 Orile Road, Agege, venue of the APC Convergence hosted by Lawmaker representing Agege State Constituency I in the Lagos State House of Assembly, Honourable Oluyinka Ogundimu. The appreciative and elated crowd welcomed Ogundimu and the member representing Agege Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, Dr Samuel Babatunde Adejare to the event with soul-inspiring songs and dance. The duo was later joined by the former Commissioner for Transportation in Lagos State, Dr…
Justice Obiora Egwuatu of the Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday, 20 February, 2023, granted Ali Bello and three others bail in an alleged N3 billion fraud suit filed against them by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. Ruling against a counter-affidavit by the EFCC counsel opposing the bail request, the judge held that the charges against the defendants were bailable and that it was to enable the defendants charged with an offence to prepare adequately for their trial. Bello was on February 8, 2023, arraigned alongside Abba Adauda, Yakubu Siyaka Adabenege and Iyadai Sadat, on an 18-count charge before…
A female gender activist, Hauwa Mustapha Babura, has called on Nigerians to come to the aid of the 11 female students of Federal Government College, Birnin Yauri, in Kebbi State, who are still in bandits’ captivity. The students, kidnapped in 2021, have spent over 18 months in their captors’ den. While making her appeal to Nigerians, Hauwa, in a two-minute video obtained by PRNigeria, said the FGC Birnin Yauri students have been crying and are also tired of being held hostage by terrorists. “In the name of God, help them,” she said, adding that a social media group she belongs…
By Quadri Adeniyi Olorunfunmi Communication is the most important aspect of every relationship. Communication is important in any relationship, as it allows you to effectively share feelings, opinions and expectations. Many people fail to communicate due to fear of rejection or the fear that they will end up upsetting or even losing their partner, family members or friends. Moving on, discussing about relationships, it can be any relationship as far as communication is concerned. It can be parent/child relationship, boss and staff relationship, husband and wife relationship, boyfriend and girlfriend relationship, mentor and mentee relationship and so on. There are…
With just few days to the February 25 presidential election, Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, has urged the people to vote the Presidential Candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and all other candidates of the ruling party, while describing Tinubu and his running mate, Senator Kashim Shettima as experienced administrators, who will improve the nation’s socio-economic status for the benefit of all. Assuring the people of the capacity of the duo to improve the lot of the nation, Abiodun said the two former governors have given Nigerians a renewed hope. He also promised that his…
BY Prof. Dele Olasiji, USA On February 13, 1999, I wrote an article titled “Why It should be Obasanjo”, published in THISDAY. And came the election day, Nigerians rightly chose Chief Olusegun Obasanjo over Chief Oluyemisi Falae. Though Nigeria’s socio-political environ today is entirely different from that of 1999, Nigerians making right choice in 1999 was as dire then as it is at the present. As then a Professor of Conflict Resolution and Human Relations at the University of Oklahoma, and being an observer abroad of the unfolding issues in Nigeria, I gave my two cents in February 1999, by…
Barely a week to the all-important presidential election in Nigeria, Economic Confidential has undertaken a robust fact-checking exercise to expose the process and people behind most of the pre-election polls that have predicted that certain candidates would win the election. Since the 18 political parties on the ballot concluded their respective primaries and chose their presidential candidates last year, a lot of polls have been conducted by different organisations most of which made bold calls about the likely winners of the election. Economic Confidential has, however, found out that some of the polls were conducted by organisations whose owners are…
It was another massive show of support and solidarity for the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and his running mate, Senator Kashim Shettima, as admirers on Saturday turned his campaign rally in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, into a street carnival. This came about 48 hours after a similar spectacle was recorded in Ibadan, Oyo State, where the APC rally brought the former headquarters of the defunct Western Region to a standstill. In Maiduguri, major streets of the city especially those leading from the Borno State Government House to the palace of the…