Editorial
JAMB’s far-reaching reforms
On March 18, 2019, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, announced at a critical stakeholders meeting in Abuja that it has put certain innovations in place f [...]
Inconclusive elections in Nigeria
Last week, all but three states were yet to conclude the electoral process in determining who the elected governors after the supplementary elections by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.
The elections [...]
The Task Before President Buhari
On February 27, 2019, at 4.20am, the chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof. Mahmood Yukubu, declared President Muhammadu Buhari as winner of the February 23, 2019 presidential election for another four year term.
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2019 Elections: The Danger of Fake Results
Two decades into Nigeria’s democracy, election remains a fretful necessity, eliciting fear over possible violence, manipulation and widespread exclusion.
While [...]
2019: Need Against Fake Results
Two decades into Nigeria’s democracy, election remains a fretful necessity, eliciting fear over possible violence, manipulation and widespread exclusion.
While the country appeared to have hit a milestone in 2015 with minimal incidents, subsequent polls conducted in states and constituenc [...]
FRSC and revenue generation
In the 1960s, there were deliberate efforts to initiate safety programmes by various agencies and regional government.
Notable among the efforts to institute a formidable road safety programme was the effort of Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria, SPDC, between 1960 and 1965.
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Electoral Act Amendment Bill conundrum
With barely two months to the 2019 general elections and global attention fixed on Nigeria, political watchers are beginning to worry that the delay in the passage of the 2019 Electoral Amendment Bill into law may cast some doubts on the integrity of the entire process.
President Muhammadu Buha [...]
2019 and security agencies preparedness
Last week, doubts over the neutrality of security operatives ahead of the 2019 general election were openly voiced by elder statesman, Edwin Clark, and Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa state.
Both leaders bluntly excoriated security operatives as a threat to the Fe [...]
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