election violence

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Azeez November 11, 2016

Boroh warns amnesty beneficiaries to shun election violence

Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, Paul Boroh has warned beneficiaries of the scheme to steer clear of election violence in the forthcoming Rivers rerun polls. Boroh in a statement…

Kolapo Olapoju March 21, 2016

Okupe advocates ‘death sentence, life imprisonment’ for perpetrators of election violence

Doyin Okupe, a former Senior Special Assistant to ex-President, Goodluck Jonathan, has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission to stop deploying youth corpers for electoral services. While condemning the…

Sola April 11, 2015

BREAKING: Shots fired as political thugs attack polling unit in Ondo

by Anike Jacobs Some political thugs have just attacked one of the wards in Ondo state. Eyewitnesses on the scene say they are shooting sporadically into the air. Voters on the…

Emmanuel Chidiogo April 8, 2015

Opinion: Counting the lives lost in election violence

by Kayode Komolafe The costs of the elections are not anymore limited to time, energy and money. Now, the costs could also be measured in blood and tears. This is…

Kolapo Olapoju March 28, 2015

#NigeriaDecides: 2 men die following election violence in Rivers (Viewer Discretion)

by Azubuike Azikiwe Two men were killed in different areas of Rivers state during the presidential and House of Assembly elections of Saturday, March 28. In the two seperate incidents…

Emmanuel Chidiogo March 19, 2015

Opinion: President Jonathan offers blood money again

by Abimbola Adelakun The problem is, Nigeria has wronged most of us and if we all were to issue an invoice, the country will be bankrupt under the overwhelming…

Emmanuel Chidiogo March 16, 2015

Opinion: #NigeriaDecides is an election, not war

by Yadoma Mandara A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field, or in the conduct of its business, cannot…

Kolapo Olapoju February 20, 2015

There will be no Interim Government – Ex-President, Abdulsalami Abubakar declares

by Panshak Ibrahim Former Military Head of State, General Abdulsalami Abubakar (retd.), has categorically stated that there will be no interim government. He spoke to journalists during a press conference…

Emmanuel Chidiogo February 20, 2015

Opinion: There may be another country if things continue like this

by Nnaemeka Oruh ...whoever claims to be fighting for the good of our nation would always stop and ask; "Will the current trend help my nation grow, or will it…

Emmanuel Chidiogo February 19, 2015

Olusegun Adeniyi: Some Abuja judges are being primed to game the election process…

by Olusegun Adeniyi While June 12 may mean different things to different people, what is not in doubt is that Nigerians paid an enormous price for the contrived and prolonged…

Emmanuel Chidiogo February 13, 2015

Opinion: Dear politicians, we are not burnt offerings

by Emmanuel Egobiambu The power is in our hands to resist all appearances of political incitement by unscrupulous elements who seek to score cheap political goals because it would amount…

Kolapo Olapoju December 29, 2014

‘Nigerians are afraid’: APC rallies stakeholders against post election violence

by Kolapo Olapoju The All Progressives Congress on Sunday called for a sit-down between the party and the Peoples Democratic Party to discuss ways in which election and post-election…

February 19, 2014

Opinion: The vindication of Buhari by Guardian Newspaper

by Obla Okoi It is unfortunate that the Guardian newspaper that is supposedly the flagship of journalism allowed people like Dr. Reuben Abati to use it to attempt to paint…

December 5, 2012

Abang Mercy: Ghana’s elections and another test for Africa

by Abang Mercy Kofi Annan, one of the most cerebral UN Secretary Generals ever to have graced the UN House in New York, once said that when elections are conducted…

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