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STATE OF THE NATION: We’re losing our youths to bandits Nnamani
On Insecurity in South-East anti-Igbo culture Igbo emancipation not dependent on producing president Govt losing to bandits on youths’ loyalty Southern governors right on need for conference We need to talk urgently Elite capture of state bedrock of economic inequality, rising poverty How porous border, ungoverned large spaces boost insecurity Rising population, a looming time bomb We must attack poverty holistically, aggressively How Nigeria can make banditry unattractive
By Henry Umoru, Assistant Politics Editor
Senator Chimaroke Nnamani, a medical doctor, an administrator, and a politician, served as governor of Enugu State from 1999 to 2007, and as Enugu East senator on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP from 2007 to 2011.
•How Nigeria surmounted 1953, 1963, 1973, 1983, 1993, 2003, 2013 hurdles
By Clifford Ndujihe, Politics Editor
GOING by the calendar of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, the 2023 presidential election is exactly 671 days away.
On October 15, INEC National Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, announced February 18, 2023 as the date for the 2023 presidential contest.
He made the disclosure at the inauguration of the House of Representatives committee on 1999 constitution review.
Since the date was fixed the polity has been charged as hordes of presidential contenders and pretenders criss-cross the length and breadth of the country strategising, aligning and realigning.
There have been posturing among the six geopolitical zones over which region should produce President Muhammadu Buhari’s successor. The two leading political parties-ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, and Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, are locked in efforts to ensure internal harmony, att
INSECURITY: Will 2023 polls hold?
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…How Nigeria surmounted 1953, 1963, 1973, 1983, 1993, 2003, 2013 hurdles
By Clifford Ndujihe, Politics Editor
GOING by the calendar of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, the 2023 presidential election is exactly 671 days away.
On October 15, INEC National Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, announced February 18, 2023 as the date for the 2023 presidential contest.
He made the disclosure at the inauguration of the House of Representatives committee on 1999 constitution review.
Since the date was fixed the polity has been charged as hordes of presidential contenders and pretenders criss-cross the length and breadth of the country strategising, aligning and realigning. There have been posturing among the six geopolitical zones over which region should produce President Muhammadu Buhari’s successor. The two leading political parties-ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, and Peoples Democratic Pa
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Obaseki orders investigation into destruction of electricity facilities in Edo
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By Ozioruva Aliu
THE Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki has condemned the vandalisation of some facilities of the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) by unknown persons in Agbede, Etsako West Local Government Area of the state.
Obaseki stated this who received the TCN Manager in Edo, Mr. Isaac Okpe on a courtesy visit at the Government House, Benin City, ordered for thorough investigation into circumstances that led to the incident.
“As a government, we are very concerned about this incident. Why will people go out to vandalise such structures with such a high risk?” he queried.