Victor Aluko is the Director of Voter Education and Publicity of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). In this interview monitored on Arise Television, he speaks on the preparedness of the electoral umpire ahead of the 2023 general election, use of the Bimodal Voters Accreditation System (BVAS) as well as campaign funding and financing by […]
Alhaji Nura Mohammed is a former Nigerian Ambassador to Malaysia and a Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kwara State. In this interview with STEPHEN OLUFEMI ONI, he bares his mind on sundry political issues, including the Kwara North Agenda for 2023, crisis in the APC and the ongoing Russia/Ukraine war The Kwara […]
Death, they say, is inevitable. The loss of several great talents in the Nigerian entertainment industry is one of the issues that defined the year 2021. From Rachel Oniga to Sadiq Daba, Nigerians watched helplessly as some of their favourite celebrities died one after the other in the outgoing year. EDWIN USOBOH, examines at the […]
Despite the shrinking political space for women in Nigeria, some Nigerian women weathered the storm and contributed their quota in the political and leadership development of the country in 2021, ANAYO EZUGWU reports The year 2021 may not be eventful for Nigerian women but there are some of who represented the interest of […]
T he Rivers State Chapter of All Progressives Congress (APC) has urged the newly appointed judges into the Rivers State judiciary to ignore Governor Nyesom Wike’s advice to resist attempts by the National Judicial Council (NJC) to discipline their erring colleagues in the state. The party said Wike gave the advice, which it described […]
A former Commissioner for Environment in Anambra State, Chief Nkwo Nnabuchi, in this interview with Onah Onah, speaks on the 2023 general election and how the South East can produce the next president What do you think about the Igbo nation beyond 2023 elections? Ndigbo are facing both physical and spiritual oblivion. They […]
Bayelsa State Governor, Douye Diri, yesterday signed into law the state’s 2022 Appropriation Bill, which was passed by the House of Assembly. Governor Diri had in October presented to the Assembly the bill tagged; “Budget of Sustainable Growth,” of N310, 717,608,362. Speaker of the Assembly, Abraham Ingobere, however, explained that the original figure was increased […]
It was a time of comparing notes between the Lagos State government and stakeholders in the housing sector of the state last week when the Lagos State Real Estate Regulatory Authority (LASRERA), put together the second Lagos Real Estate Market Place Conference and Exhibition, with the theme, ‘Lagos: 21st Century Real Estate Investment Hub’, as […]
Pauline Onyibe, Yenagoa The prosperity government will be two years in two months’ time and the administration has not been doing badly even though it has met the expectations of the entire Bayelsans; but one thing that is real is that the state has been relatively peaceful unlike other states in other parts of the […]
Female genital mutilation (FGM) is a form of violence against women and girls and which has been affecting them in some parts of the African continent for years. FGM comprises all procedures that involve partial or total removal of the external female genitalia, or other injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons. […]