AWKA – Strategies for 2021 governorship election in Anambra state are gathering momentum as political parties gear up for the forthcoming election. Last week Saturday, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) held its 8th stakeholders meeting in Awka with a call…
On the eve of the 12th Extraordinary Summit of the African Union Heads of State that took place on the 7th of July 2019 in Niamey, Niger; the federal government announced that it would sign the Africa Continental Free Trade…
“At this juncture, the answers to the following questions will be very crucial to unknotting the controversies: Does INEC have electronic data (soft copy) of all registered voters on their lists/records? Do the PVCs used during the elections and the…
No June 12 declaration as Democracy Day can obfuscate the rape of democracy we have just witnessed. What we have in Nigeria is not government of the people by the people and for the people; but government of the government…
Chima Christian and Oseloka H. Obaze Nigeria’s economy is stressed. Several performance indicators and ratings point to its parlous inclination. But no performance indicator is as stark as everyday realities that confront the general populace. Beyond the gross erosion of…
The governorship election in Anambra State is still some two years away, but a zoning debate has been kicked off by stakeholders who are already positioning their political parties well ahead of the off-season election, Group Politics Editor, TAIWO ADISA,…
The legal quandary, which the All Progressives Congress has found itself in Zamfara State, was not only avoidable, but self-inflicted, writes Tobi Soniyi Filing multiple cases on same subject matter often results in confusion. This explains why many people do…
In the 2015 presidential election, Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC) was awarded 15,424,921 votes by Attahiru Jega’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), while Goodluck Jonathan of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was awarded 12,853,162 votes. In that…
Anambra is one state where political analysts have concluded is still free for any presidential candidate to work hard to take, as it is deemed to be still free. The above submission may stem from the fact that while the…
By Emmanuel Aziken, Political Editor and Abdulmumin Murtala, Kano Yesterday’s “unbelievable” crowd that attended Atiku Abubakar’s campaign rally in Kano, a state whose votes had always been seen as the birthright of Muhammadu Buhari may signpost significant undercurrents in the…