Tag: APC
Ife Adebayo: This APC is broken (Y! Politico)
by Ife Adebayo However… this APC… this Armored Personnel Carrier meant to provide some safety, some comfort, some hope, and light at the end of the tunnel to Nigeria is…
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Opinion: Dear NNPC, please bring back our refineries
by Solomon Ben Olonade The big question is simple: Should Nigerian refineries translate now from public to private ownership? Most true Nigerians will argue that the right principle for…
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Opinion: Why the PDP thinks it can win Osun State
by Matthew Adejoh Now, where do all these leave Osun State Governor, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, who came in through the window by some legal magic in the judiciary, and is…
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A week to his 52nd birthday, we profile the rise and fall of Farouk Lawan (YNaija Long Read)
by Nchekwube Efunesi As he listened intently - from where he stood in the dock - to the court registrar reeling out all seven counts accusing him of seeking a…
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Dele Momodu: APC, please get serious
by Dele Momodu Those who packaged the present concoction for APC did not do well at all. It created doubts in the minds of admirers like us about the sincerity…
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Opinion: Ayo Fayose – The Ekiti electorate made a bad choice
by Akin Adesokan It is true that the electorate in Ekiti made a choice it considered to be in its interest. But I think it is a bad choice, and…
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TERRIBLE: Explosion rocks South-west state of Osun
by 'Jola Sotubo File photo According to reports, a bomb has exploded in Ile-Ife in the early hours of Tuesday. The explosion is said to have occurred at about 3am…
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Femi Aribisala: The beginning of the end of the Bola Tinubu dynasty
by Femi Aribisala Speaking of himself in the third person, Tinubu declared: “Nobody, no one under the sun, under the United Nations Human Rights Charter, can stop Bola Tinubu’s ambition.” …
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Hannatu Musawa: Mutating from defeat to hope in Ekiti
by Hannatu Musawa Sadly, many leaders especially in Africa hardly ever relinquish power with the kind of grace and demeanor Governor Fayemi exhibited in the aftermath of the Ekiti elections.…
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Opinion: Femi Aribisala walks the fine line between anarchist and a columnist
by Folorunsho Ogunrotimi Why is it that when we see an opportunity to move this country forward people like you rise to stifle it? I was astounded and full of…
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Charly Boy stops Okorocha from speaking at father’s burial, snatches microphone
by S'ola Filani A few weeks back, maverick entertainer, Charles Oputa, popularly known as Charly Boy warned politicians against politicizing his father's burial. The artiste is clearly making good his…
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Toni Kan: This liability called Bola Tinubu
by Toni Kan Opeyemi Bamidele’s defection and direct challenge to Fayemi should have sent warning signals but Tinubu carried on. How does a man whose wife and son-in-law are federal…
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Akin Osuntokun: How the PDP took over the South-west in 2003
by Akin Osuntokun It is said that when a lie is sufficiently repeated it begins to attain the status of truth. Egged on by a thoroughly brainwashed media, the APC…
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Opinion: The opposition APC and its concept of change
by Raymond Inkabi Thus, it appears the APC do not want to merely criticize the entire system, nor itself too, or the general political and social conditions under which this…
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Opinion: Ekiti and its plethora of lessons in poli-tricks
by Abdulazeez Abdulazeez Another great lesson from the Ekiti polls is for the APC to meditate; rethink, and restrategise. The election, by all Nigerian standard, was free and fair. If…
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‘Ekiti was a fluke, PDP can never win in Rivers,’ APC boasts
by Akan Ido The All Progressives Congress (APC), Rivers State Chapter, has dismissed as a fluke, last Saturday’s dislodgement of the party by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) during the…
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Ayomikun Soyombo: Though Ekiti has spoken, we won’t let Nigeria go (Poetry)
by Ayomikun Soyombo We can't neglect this land We can't give in yet Though the imprisoned seeks no liberation We can't just turn our backs to…
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Femi Aribisala: A Muslim/Muslim Presidential disaster for the APC
by Femi Aribisala Those whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad. The APC plan for a Muslim/Muslim ticket in this day and age in Nigeria is…
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Opinion: Ekiti’s critical lessons for democracy
by Jibrin Ibrahim PDP knew what they were doing when they choose him above all the other educated and suave politicians that sought the party nomination. While I respect the…
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#EkitiDecides: 5 journalists arrested by security operatives in Ekiti
by S'ola Filani The Ekiti governorship elections is well underway and so far, the conduct has been peaceful. There have, however, been reports of assault and indiscriminate arrests by security forces…
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For the record: Full text of a world press conference speech delivered by the APC Chairman
by Zara Mustapha Former governor of Edo state, John Odigie-Oyegun was elected National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) some days ago. Chief Oyegun succeeded former APC chairman, Governor Bisi Akande after…
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APC, PDP supporters clash in Osun, scores injured
by Oge Okonkwo Several people were injured yesterday in Iwo, Osun state as supporters of the ruling party All Progressives Congress (APC), clashed with supporters of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), during…
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#EkitiPoll: 11 PDP supporters arrested for thumb printing ballot papers
by 'Jola Sotubo According to reports, 11 members of the Peoples Democratic Party have been arrested by officials of the Department of State Security after they were allegedly caught thumbprinting…
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APC chided for electing 52-year-old Youth Leader, Keshi explains why Nigeria couldn’t defeat Iran & other important news you should know today
by Oge Okonkwo Nigerians condemn APC for electing 52-year-old Youth Leader Nigerians across political divide have criticized the All Progressives Congress, APC, for appointing 52-year-old Ibrahim Jalo as its youth…
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Tunde Leye: The Champagne class and the rest of us in 2015 (Y! FrontPage)
by Tunde Leye On both sides of the divide, we have teams of people that remind me of Squealer from Animal Farm. Where their party is concerned, they justify the…
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Hannatu Musawa: APC should come to equity with clean hands
by Hannatu Musawa As the APC embarks on its congress this weekend (13th-14th June 2014), and begins the journey that will determine its future, one can bet that all eyes…
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“God shall take over the battle”: Doyin Okupe goes spiritual, prophesies over return of Chibok schoolgirls (TWEETS)
by S'ola Filani Senior Special Assistant to the President on Public Affairs, Doyin Okupe took to Twitter prophesying over the return of the missing Chibok schoolgirls. Countering former president Olusegun…
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Demola Rewaju: All hail the new activist king (Y! Superblogger)
by Demola Rewaju The presence of several APC chieftains in Kano before the announcement of Gov Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso has cast a political shadow on Sanusi’s throne and it may be one…
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Opinion: Between Tom Ikimi and APC Chairmanship – This cap does not fit
by Adekunle Omobaba At 68, he was a divorcee and he had this to say: “I don’t have a wife now and I am not in a hurry to find a…
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Femi Aribisala: Lamido Sanusi – The wrong Emir of Kano
by Femi Aribisala Make no mistake about it: this is a political appointment. Even more pointedly, it is an APC appointment. Governor Kwankwaso who made this appointment is a rebel…
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