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All for Peace!
2019: IGP Releases Security Arrangement For Campaigns And Rallies By Political Parties
• Charges Police Officers Not to be Partisan Consequent on the release of the Time Table and Schedule of activities for 2019 General Elections by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), and the commencement of campaign by Political Parties for the Presidential & National Assembly Elections which has taken off on 18th November, 2018 and Governorship & State Houses of Assembly Elections starting on 1st December, 2018,...
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Nemesis!
$20.5M Scam: 3 Men Docked for Forging Email Addresses of President Buhari and Wife, Aisha
By Akin Kuponiyi The Federal Criminal Investigative Department (FCID) of the Nigeria Police, Alagbon, Ikoyi, Lagos today 19 November 2018, arraigned three men for fraud. They were alleged to have swindled various people across the world of $20.5 million (NN7. 4 billion). They allegedly used what they claimed was the email accounts of President Muhammadu Buhari and his wife, Aisha. The three men were: Uche Anyanwu Julius...
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The Roadmap...
2019: Buhari inaugurates Campaign Manual, urges politicians not to set country ablaze
President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday inaugurated campaign manual for his re-election in 2019 with a call on politicians to be peaceful and decent in their campaigns and avoid any act capable of setting the nation ablaze. Speaking at the launch of the Campaign Manual/Next Level Document at the Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa, Abuja, the president said the call had become imperative in view of the commencement of campaigns by political parties...
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Dilemma
News Analysis: Atiku Doesn’t Want To Be President
By Farooq Kperogi For me, Nigeria’s greatest tragedy is that in the year 2018, its only validly realistic options for president are Buhari and Atiku. These are clearly not the best, or even the third best, Nigeria—or even northern Nigeria– can offer. However, given Buhari’s irreparably manifest incompetence, I was willing to tolerate an Atiku presidency. Unfortunately, I’ve seen no indication that Atiku wants to be president....
Nigeria’s first coup, Biafra: British Secret files (Part Two)
Damola Awoyokun offers the second and third part of his revealing fresh narrative on Nigeria’s first coup on 15 January 1966, using hitherto secret British diplomatic and intelligence files. This sequel tells how Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu held sway as military governor of Northern Nigeria for several days, how Yakubu Gowon in Lagos and David Ejoor in Enugu...
