by Reuben Abati The best way to describe what has happened to Nigeria in the last 72 hours, beginning with the country’s first set of general elections on Saturday, February 25, 2023, is to echo Charl...
Tomorrow is the big day when for the seventh election since the return to democracy, more than 93 million Nigerians are registered to vote. It is likely to be a closely contested race with four candid...
By Zainab Suleiman Okino It does not matter what the naysayers say and the doubts are.By the time the presidential election is concluded this weekend, Nigeria would have written its name in gold, for ...
They have tried all the gimmicks. They have explored all manner of shenanigans. They have rained abuses. They have cursed. They have sang choruses of condemnation. A section of the print and electroni...
Joseph Goebbels, the propaganda Chief of Adolf Hitler said ‘‘Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth’’. This was in the 1930s, before the internet was birthed. Let us clearly, specifically ...
The Centre for Democracy and Development has just published a major study on social media and the 2023 election campaigns which I summarise here . Currently, the number of active social media users in...
The President of the Alumni Association of the National Institute (AANI), former Inspector General of Police, MD Abubakar, mni, has called on the Federal Government, security agencies, and the Indepen...
No one can discountenance the disenchantment in the land. It is written all over the place; on our countenance; on our body language; in our action, or inaction. By this time, almost eight years ago, ...
In Africa, this year, there would be a total of more than 10 general elections in countries across the continent, particularly Sierra Leone in June, Sudan in July, Zimbabwe in July, Liberia in October...
By Agbo, Ochonu & Kperogi In the face of existential challenges facing Nigeria and leading up to the 2023 presidential election, the ensuing conversation arose among three Nigerians in the Diaspor...
