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As expectation mounts over the 2023 general elections, the National Association of Seadogs (NAS), aka Pyrates Confraternity, Benin One Branch, weekend, organized a sensitization programme for residents of Benin City. Project Manager of the association, Ibrahim Oven said the exercise is aimed at encouraging the electorate on rightful conducts during the elections. He urged the electorate to vote wisely for the candidates that they think and feel would best create the enabling atmosphere for the dividends of democracy to thrive. “What we have come out to do today is to ensure our vote counts. This is usually what we do…

Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, has charged pilgrims from Edo State embarking on pilgrimage to Israel and Jordan, as well as other Christians, to pray for the success of the 2023 general election and continuous unity and progress in the country. The governor Obaseki made the request at the departure wing of the Benin Airport where he went to bid farewell to a 16-man delegation from Edo State embarking on the 2023 pilgrimage to Israel and Jordan. He commended the chairman of the state Pilgrims Board for a change of narrative in relation to abscondment. Said he, “I believe this…

The Resident Electoral Commission (REC), Edo State, Hon. Obo Effanga, has over 1.9 million persons have collected their Permanent Voter Cards, representing 79.8 percent. Obo Effanga disclosed this while addressing journalists on the preparedness of the commission ahead of the general elections in the country, Benin City, Edo state. He said the Commission was not expected to see any figure above the number of those who collected their PVCs adding that anything above that would amount to nullity. “The total number of registered voters in Edo State going into these elections is 2,501,081 persons that are registered to vote in…

Imagine a farmer with his plough, and hour after hour he is ploughing in the field. He is doing this work in expectation that there will be a harvest. If he was convinced that those seeds would not grow do you think he would take the time to go out and plough? Perhaps just so that the other farmers could see that he knew how to plough? No, he would not waste his time. But if he believes that the seeds will grow, he ploughs in expectation; he ploughs with the distinct understanding that that is the necessary and logical…

They obviously thought Buhari was their ‘mugu’. They were sure they could manipulate him anyhow and anytime they want. At the APC primaries, they outfoxed him. A few months to his departure from Aso Rock, Buhari has put his foot down and shown that stubborn streak that made millions of Nigerians vote for him in the first place. Muhammadu Buhari may have become Robin Hood and the APC High Command cannot understand what is going on. They are in disarray! The APC governors and their other kingpins appear to have gone gaga. The Naira redesign policy of the CBN has…

All eyes will be on Nigeria on Saturday, 25th February, when the people go to the polls to elect a new President and 469 members of the country’s National Assembly, and two weeks later they will return to the ballot to elect new governors and members of the 36 State Houses of Assembly. It will be the seventh general elections, since the country returned to democratic rule in 1999 after the military government of General Abdulsalami Abubakar inaugurated Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, a former Military Head of State and winner of the 1999 presidential election as the new civilian President. The…

The cashless system is driving so many Nigerians crazy as life has become tougher, with people unable to feed and cater for their families anymore. Businesses are collapsing as it gets harder by the day to access cash. Faces wear clear signs of despair, confusion as hunger swells, following the inability of banks and mobile banking operators to dispense cash to customers. For many in Rivers State, the new banking policy is a heavy knock coming on the heels of last year’s flooding which swept away most of what the people had. In most communities in the Niger Delta, a…

Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State has appealed to citizens of the state and Nigerians in general, to remain calm amidst scarcity of the new naira notes in the country. The governor’s appeal is coming on the heels of violent protests by some citizens of the state at Orhuwhorun Community in Udu Local Government Area of the state where a bank’s ATM gallery was reportedly torched. Okowa’s appeal was contained in a statement by the State Commissioner for Information, Mr Charles Aniagwu in Asaba. He called on the people to remain calm while also appealing to the Central Bank of…

As the hardship occasioned by the unavailability of new Naira notes continues, youths in Warri and environs have embarked on demonstration which have resulted in the vandalism and setting ablaze of banks. The violent protest broke out in Orhuwhorum junction and spread to Express junction axis of the metropolis in protest of the shortage of Naira notes as well as hike in fuel pump price. The protesters vandalized automated teller machines of Access Bank at Orhuwhorum Junction as well as First Bank ATM in Udu road. Part of the bank buildings were also vandalized by mobs who hauled stones at…

The situation in Nigeria is unfolding into very ominous signs of a possible “melt down” of state institutions under President Muhammadu Buhari. We are tempted to ask: Can the centre hold as Things Fall Apart? 1) The health institution suffered a virus attack and haemorrhage, by the mass “exodus” of Nigerian doctors and medical personnel. Armed with their certificates which Nigeria seems to have little regard for since 1999, such health personnel grab their rubber slippers as economic refugees and leave to anywhere but home. Dr Chris Ngige as minister of Labour was reported as saying that Nigeria could do…