Tag: 2023 Elections

2023 ELECTIONS: DG tasks corps members on credible conduct

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The Director General of the National Youth Service Corps, Brigadier General Muhammad Fadah, has urged Corps Members that will be engaged as polling officers during the 2023 general elections to abide by the electoral laws.   He made the call today while addressing the 2022 Batch ‘C’ Corps Members at the Orientation Camps in Yobe and Jigawa States.   Fadah stressed the need for them to be impartial umpires, warning that they must resist being used by anyone to commit fraud.   He told them that the nation reposed great…

2023 ELECTIONS: IGP orders immediate distribution of additional uniforms/kits, Anti-Riot equipment

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The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba has ordered the immediate distribution of additional batches of uniforms, kits, accoutrements and anti-riot equipment comprised bullet-proof vests with armored plates, ballistic helmets, long and short-range tear gas for civil disorder management, and stun guns to ensure officers appear in clean uniforms and are well-suited to discharge policing services professionally before, during and after the 2023 General Elections; and for general safety of all and sundry across the country.   This distribution was coming on the heels of the recently procured batch…

2023: Hon Abiodun calls for support, pledges better opportunities

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By Olayode Abdurasaq All Progressive Party APC candidate for Yewa South/Ipokia Federal Constituency in Ogun State,Hon. Akinlade Abiodun Isiaq has called on the beautiful people of Yewa South and Ipokia in Ogun State to support his political agenda that will ensure more youths in the constituency are gainfully employed. Hon. Abiodun said that despite his leaving elective office for the past eight years but his people still looked up to him for support. According to him, families are lifted out of poverty when their wards, children are employed. “I have…

A Passage north – In Touch, By Sam Omatseye

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NO word or concept captures a political season like love. Yet, no word is more ignored. We brandish such nuggets as “connect,” “grassroots,” “network,” “structure,” “empower,” et al. But they all disguise what the Bible levitates as the queen of all virtues. Apostle Paul describes it as the fulfilling of the law. Jesus says it is the one quality by which others can know his disciples. For the politician, it is why they wake up and go to sleep, or do not go to sleep. They crave the peoples upraised…

Electioneering as a blindfold, by Tola Adeniyi

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Just close your eyes for a minute and imagine with your mind’s eye, a community of slaves which is oblivious to the chains and shackles on them; imagine a pack of lunatics in a Mental Asylum who are living their life without a care in the world; imagine a people in a dilapidated house which is an inch close to collapsing and they are dancing Buga; imagine a people being robbed at gunpoint and they are embracing their traducers; just keep imagining all the horrors of this world staring a…

2023: How Niche, Cult Following, And Primordial Sentiments Will Produce Next President By Law Mefor

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Nigeria’s problems are essentially civilizational. Contrary to permutations that the 2023 presidential election will be significantly different from the past elections, it is still niche-carving, cult following, and primordial sentiments that will produce Nigeria’s next president. The 2023 Presidential Election is upon us and surely it will be peculiar in many respects but much more will remain the same.   Initially, the 2023 general election was perceived as a two-horse race between the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, and the main opposition, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP that is quite…

2023 ELECTIONS: NHRC tasks political parties on human rights agenda

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The National Human Rights Commission has called on the various political parties in Nigeria to ensure that human rights protection remain a critical component of their campaign promises rather than indulging in hate speech to tarnish the image of their opponents. NHRC said “It is a common knowledge that countries are globally rated in terms of their accomplishments in human rights protection of citizens, therefore it will be unthinkable for our political parties to neglect human rights issues and belabour the polity with name calling and hate speech before, during…

Academics, politicians and rogue elements. By Owei Lakemfa

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The country heaved a sigh of relief on Thursday, October 13, 2022 as the eight-month strike by academics which shutdown the public universities was suspended. Days before the suspension, many Nigerians were in a jubilant mood as all indications were that the agreement midwifed by the House of Representatives was acceptable to government and the lecturers national body, the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU.   But some, like me, were a bit sceptical because during the strike, we detected moves that gave the impression that there are powerful but…

2023 ELECTIONS: NHRC unveils MOVE project ,urges Nigerians to shun hate speech

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The National Human Rights Commission NHRC today Monday 17th October,2022 in line with its constitutional responsibility for the upcoming elections unveiled the “Mobilising Voters for Election (MOVE)” Project.The MOVE is initiated by the NHRC to promote access, participation and accountability in the 2023 general elections in Nigeria. In his opening speech at program launch in Abuja,the Executive Secretary, National Human Rights Commission NHRC, Barr Tony Ojukwu SAN said the initiative was in line with the commission’s broad mandate to protect, promote and enforce human rights in Nigeria. He maintained that…

Telecom Infrastructure Critical to Successful 2023 Elections – NCC Boss

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The Executive Vice Chairman,Nigerian Communications Commission, Prof. Umar Danbatta, has said telecom infrastructure remained critical to successful 2023 elections, called on Nigerians in every community should join hands in protecting it for the benefit of the country.   Danbatta, who was special guest at the 6th Edition of the Annual Conference of Guild of Corporate Online Publishers (GOCOP) in Lagos at the weekend, with focus on the forthcoming election and the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu in attendance, said with the planned transmission of…