NATIONAL president, Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, PFN, Rev. Felix Omobude, said ordinarily it was inconceivable for the military to be involved in our political elections. “But when you look at the desperation and the viciousness of our political actors, and the things that happened prior to the last elections…
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Retired Generals should be barred from contesting presidential elections — Tanko Yakassai
Alhaji Tanko Yakasai, Second Republic politician, in this encounter speaks on the military involvement in Nigeria elections and advocates that retired generals be excluded from contesting elections to position of civilian president where they also become commander-in-chief of the armed forces because of the negative impact of miliatry involvement in elections, especially the last elections.
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It’s wrong to say election was militarised, says Gen Buratai, Chief of Army Staff
Militarisation has to be defined. What do you mean by militarisation? How exactly did the military take part in the elections? Generalisation is not the best. People just use the word militarisation without defining it. Was the so-called militarisation everywhere across the country? Why are people making so much noise about it? They are giving the impression that the military was involved in the entire process in the whole country. It is just probably a definition they only restricted to Lagos or where?
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Militarisation of 2019 elections
ALTHOUGH the 2019 general elections have come and gone, the jury is still out on the question of whether the entire process was credible based on how those assigned different roles by law and the relevant authorities conducted themselves. On the dock are the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC; the different political parties that took part in the elections, the security agencies, including the Police, the military and others.
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Lagos Building Collapse:I lost a twin son, doctors battling to save his twin sister in hospital — Bereaved mother
Around 8 a.m. on Wednesday, Adedayo Adedoyin waved her 6-year-old twin son and daughter off as they took the short walk to their school, a few meters away from their home in Lagos Island.
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Lethal rice smuggled inside car bonnet
How safe is that half bag or a full bag of rice you just bought at the market? How sure are you that the rice is not among the ones smuggled by unscrupulous traders from Cotonou in the Republic of Benin through Seme and transported inside the car bonnet or under the car seat or in other hidden parts of the vehicle, and thus fit for consumption?
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Tragedy foretold: Over 1000 buildings marked for demolition including tragic house
Unless something urgent is done, we may be witnessing more building collapses, as over 1000 buildings in Lagos Island have been allegedly certified distressed.
Mr. Kunle Awobodu, 1st Vice President, Nigerian Institute of Building NIOB, and the immediate past President of Building Collapse Prevention Guild BCPG, while reacting to yesterday’s collapsed building in Ita Faji Street, Lagos Island, said “From our findings which revealed over 1000 structures were distressed, we had also recommended that those structures should be earmarked for demolition in Lagos Island.
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SPECIAL REPORT: Out-of-school children in Osun State: Tales of poverty, pains, struggle
Staying out of school has become normal for 13-year-old Adepoju Ibrahim. He considers learning vulcanizing as the best option having dropped out of school. Whenever kids in Ede town area of Osun State are going to school, Ibrahim moves to Oke-Gada area of the town where he is learning vulcanizing. He withdrew from school in […]
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ABDULFATAH Ahmed: Silently transforming Kwara
JAKANDE: The titan that took Lagos to modernity
FONDLY called Baba Kekere, he was the governor of Lagos State elected in the “Class of 79” Governors of the Second Republic, under the platform of the defunct Unity Party of Nigeria, UPN, founded by the late sage and nationalist, Chief Jeremiah Oyeniyi Obafemi Awolowo.
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