Hon. (Mrs) Victoria Pamugo, Founder/National Chairperson of the Diasporans for PDP was at the WAP’s Media Chat where she spoke to Dr. Anthony Ogbo about an upcoming Diaspora Summit.
By Prof. Felix Akpan The BVAS machine has become their albatross. Its introduction has put an end to ballot box snatching, multiple thump printing, and voting without accreditation, which was the proble’matique of our previous elections in the country. The recent political appointments made by Governor Wike of Rivers State have attracted a lot of interest and interrogation from different people across the political divide, within and outside of his State. But the Governor...
Nigerian universities urgently need a reboot; whether ASUU should be part of that process is an open question. When the Academic Staff Union of Nigerian Universities (ASUU) suspended its industrial action last week, it found itself precisely where it was back in February when the National Executive Council (NEC) announced “a comprehensive and total strike”—exasperated, forlorn, and no closer to an agreement with the Federal Government. February’s strike was the union’s first since 2020 when a nine-month industrial action...
“Dan Ulasi understands Nigeria’s electoral maps and could read them with his eyes closed” ―Anthony Obi Ogbo ________________________ Campaigns for the 2023 general election officially commenced on September 28, in line with the timetable and schedule of activities of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). This date signaled the beginning of a process of shaping the electioneering landscape ahead of the general election. In the succeeding weeks, all the major political parties unleashed their supporters...
Nigerian writer, Chimamanda Adichie, has joined the likes of late Prof. Chinua Achebe and late Chief Gani Fawehinmi who declined a national honour. It was gathered that the award-winning author rejected a national honour to be conferred on her by President Muhammadu Buhari. President Buhari on Tuesday in Abuja conferred national honours on deserving Nigerians and foreigners as part of the activities for the celebration of Nigeria’s 62nd independence anniversary. Among the women who made the honours...
An absence of political will may prove a far harder problem than complicated logistics Nearly two years after war broke out in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, the fighting is intensifying, and the interstate dimension to the conflict is as undeniable as ever. Reports indicate that some one hundred thousand Eritrean troops are assaulting Tigray, apparently in coordination with the Ethiopian military. The region has been under siege since June of 2021, with only piecemeal exceptions during the lull...
Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), has said addressing insecurity will tackle inflation in the country. He indicated this during a BBC interview aired on Tuesday. Obi said Nigeria’s top priority today is security, adding that it’s an issue that requires urgent attention. He said the country has been hit by high food inflation, which can be tackled by improving security. In its consumer price index (CPI) report for August 2022,...
Peter Obi’s ascendance appears to have ripped up the Igbo self-determination playbook. Until recently, one overarching question dominated Nigerian political discourse: will the February 2023 general elections hold as scheduled? Underpinning this question was a legitimate concern over security—the insurgency in the northeast, sporadic banditry in the northwest, rampant abductions across the entire southern belt, and recurrent violence linked to the activities of the self-determination group, the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) in the southeast. Of...
LAGOS — The University of Lagos (UNILAG) has produced its first-ever female vice-chancellor (VC), Professor Folashade Ogunshola. Prof. Ogunsola’s announcement as UNILAG’s 13th VC was made by Mrs. Adejoke Alaga, Principal Assistant Registrar, Communication Unit of the institution on Friday. The professor of microbiology was among the seven shortlisted candidates for the position. Other shortlisted candidates were: Prof. Abayomi Akinyeye of the faculty of arts; Prof. Mathew Ilori and Prof. Adeyinka Adekunle both of the...
ABUJA — President Muhammadu Buhari Friday presented a budget proposal of N20.51 trillion naira to the joint session of the National Assembly in Abuja, which he referred to the 2023 Appropriation as a “budget of fiscal sustainability and transition before he leaves office in May next year. Addressing the session, the President described the oil subsidy regime as grossly unsustainable in the current reality of low revenues occasioned by oil theft and insecurity. President Buhari,...
