Udi Stakeholders Storm Court, Demand Order Restraining Aneke From Parading As PDP LG Chair
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The Judiciary and 2023 General Elections – THISDAYLIVE
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It’s Unconstitutional To Subject Operation, Independence Of INEC To Another Agency
In the aftermath of the controversies that followed the 2019 general election and much later the off-cycle gubernatorial elections in Kogi and Bayelsa states, the intensity of the push by the electorate and various stakeholder groups interested in the nation’s electioneering process increased significantly. There seemed to be a consensus that the 2023 election cycle would not roll in without a fundamental review of the main electoral legislation, the Electoral Act 2010 that was last reviewed about 10 years ago by the 6th National Assembly. x
Attempts had been made to review the current Act in the period leading to the 2019 election but efforts of the 8th National Assembly, led by Senator Bukola Saraki, didn’t come to fruition. President Muhammadu Buhari had, on the eve of the election, refused assent to the Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill, 2018, citing the be
New Threats To Press Freedom, By Gloria Mabeiam Ballason
When all is said and done, principles matter.
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Every threat provides an opportunity and when the most is made of the opportunity, it produces a desired outcome. The new or subsisting threats to the media can largely be surmounted by the basic codes and canons of journalism like courage, truthfulness, accuracy, objectivity, impartiality, fairness, social justice and public accountability. I would, to those codes, add consistency in upholding values.
Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 10 of the Human Rights Act, and Section 39 of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria confer on humans the right to freedom of opinion, expression, the press, and the right to receive and impart information and ideas, without interference by the public authority and regardless of frontiers. This is a qualified right, which enables anyone to hold free opinion and express them verbally, i