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Politics / The Challenges Of Registering To Vote In Nigeria by Naijiant: 11:06pm On Jan 23, 2019 |
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has three administrative building complexes in the capital Abuja. Everybody working there is very busy. 84 million Nigerians are called upon to elect a new president and parliament on February 16. State parliaments and gubernatorial elections will take place two weeks later. Sitting in his office in the capital, INEC’s deputy spokesperson Aliyu M. Bello is happy with the way things are going. “The commission is ready. It has been engaging with critical stakeholders and prepared the voters’ list. So far arrangements for everything pertaining to the 2019 election are excellent,” Bello told DW.More: https://www.naijiant.com/guestcolumn/nigeria-the-challenges-of-registering-to-vote/ |
Politics / Osinbajo’s Lame Defence Of Buhari’s Uselessness by Naijiant: 10:41pm On Jan 21, 2019 |
President Muhammadu Buhari’s two completely inept performances on television in the space of a month have left his handlers and spin-doctors scrambling for excuses with the presidential (s)election less than a month away.More: https://www.naijiant.com/articles/osinbajos-lame-defence-of-buharis-uselessness/ |
Politics / Buhari Is Done, Nigerians Should Put Him Out Of His Misery Next Month by Naijiant: 1:46pm On Jan 18, 2019 |
As February’s presidential (s)election approaches, President Muhammadu Buhari is being wheeled out to talk to Nigerians – something he has tried to avoid over the past three years and more. He hardly ever held press conferences, hardly ever spoke to the Nigerian media. Now with an election approaching, his handlers know that he can’t be seen to be asking people to vote for him without talking to them.More: https://www.naijiant.com/videos/buhari-is-done-nigerians-should-put-him-out-of-his-misery-next-month/ 1 Like 1 Share |
Politics / Warning To Jimi Agbaje: Your “Affirmative Action” Proposal Is Illega by Naijiant: 8:08pm On Jan 15, 2019 |
Jimi Agbaje, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate for the governorship of Lagos State, said during a debate with other candidates last night: “Our people, who are indigenes of the state, must appreciate that it is the contributions of other people who come to Lagos that make it tick. Lagos is a cosmopolitan city, where everyone should have a space, but, that does not detract from the fact that indigenes of the state would be relegated.More: https://www.naijiant.com/articles/warning-to-jimi-agbaje-your-affirmative-action-proposal-is-illegal/ |
Politics / Buhari's Closest Igbo Ally Struggling To Sell The President In The Southeast by Naijiant: 5:59pm On Jan 14, 2019 |
This is the man Buhari wants to be Igbo president. Many Nigerian observers are not aware of the Igbo man who is the closest politically to President Muhammadu Buhari, who does not have that much support in the Igbo heartland of Nigeria’s southeast region.More: https://www.naijiant.com/beer-parlour-gist/buharis-closest-igbo-ally-struggling-to-sell-the-president-in-the-southeast/ |
Politics / Boko Haram: Nigeria Is Seizing Defeat From The Jaws Of Victory by Naijiant: 9:38am On Jan 10, 2019 |
The Boko Haram ISIL (Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant) faction known as ISWAP (Islamic State West Africa Province) has stuck with its strategy of concentrating on the security forces and doing so by assembling a large enough number of gunmen to ensure, most of the time, a quick victory. The continued prevalence of corruption and incompetent officers in the army has contributed to continued chaos and lawlessness in northern Borno State, where most of the population was displaced by Boko Haram violence in 2014-15 and when Boko Haram control was broken by 2017. After that government programs to revive the economy and restore law and order collapsed under the usual corruption and incompetence of local officials and security forces. Even a reform minded president who was a former general and Moslem was unable to push military reforms far enough and fast enough. Boko Haram is not winning, the government is failing to finish off a defeated Boko Haram and take advantage of an opportunity to regain the trust and loyalty of the local population. ISIL took advantage of similar conditions to quickly overrun more than a third of Iraq in 2014. Many Nigerian leaders are well aware of how that worked but the corruption is so entrenched and widespread that reform moves slowly and that left the army and government officials vulnerable to a well-organized Boko Haram comeback.More: https://www.naijiant.com/guestcolumn/nigeria-seizing-defeat-from-the-jaws-of-victory/ |
Politics / Re: We Will Replicate Anambra Education Revolution Nationally — Obi by Naijiant: 3:53pm On Jan 09, 2019 |
The same Basketmouth Obi that said education in Anambra State was not for the poor. https://www.naijiant.com/articles/peter-obi-education-in-anambra-state-is-not-meant-for-the-poor/ 2 Likes |
Politics / Re: Buhari Showed In The This Day Interview That He's Not Presidential Material by Naijiant: 3:34pm On Jan 09, 2019 |
ayampissed:You are the one that would need the pills to cope with 4 more years of suffering and smiling. 2 Likes |
Politics / Buhari Showed In The This Day Interview That He's Not Presidential Material by Naijiant: 9:03am On Jan 09, 2019 |
Unless we are talking about president of Daura Town Union. Many Nigerian politicians specialise in running their mouths, but can’t run much else. President Muhammadu Buhari showed in his so-called interview with This Day newspaper that he can’t talk like a leader, can’t lead the country, and can’t even be trusted with something as mundane as running a bath, let alone running a large country like Nigeria.More: https://www.naijiant.com/videos/buhari-shows-he-cant-be-trusted-to-run-a-bath/ |
Politics / Buhari Not Interested In Young People's Concerns - Expert by Naijiant: 1:16pm On Dec 31, 2018 |
"The spike in violence again has meant that while Buhari ran on bringing peace and stability back to Nigeria, he hasn't succeeded," said Sophia Moestrup, deputy director for Central and West Africa at the National Democratic Institute (NDI).More: https://www.naijiant.com/guestcolumn/nigerians-fear-violence-will-play-a-part-in-februarys-selections/ |
Politics / Don't Get It Twisted About Shagari, He Was A Disaster As President by Naijiant: 8:11pm On Dec 30, 2018 |
The death of Second Republic president Shehu Shagari on Friday, has kicked off quite a bit of historic revisionism from some quarters. Shagari was president from 1979 until his government was overthrown in a military coup on 31 December 1983 that installed Muhammadu Buhari as head of the ruling junta.More: https://www.naijiant.com/articles/a-brief-look-at-shehu-shagaris-presidency/ 1 Like |
Politics / Ben Murray-Bruce: So Bereft Of Common Sense by Naijiant: 4:48pm On Dec 29, 2018 |
Ben Murray-Bruce, officially the senator for Bayelsa East, but unofficially the “Senator representing Twitter”, also has other more disparaging nicknames including “Ben Murray Dunce” and “Senator Alabi Yellow”. But Bruce prefers to be known as “the Common Sense Senator”, announcing via his Twitter handle that he is a “Common Sense Advocate” and that he is the author of the book: “A Commonsense Revolution”.More: https://www.naijiant.com/articles/ben-murray-bruce-so-bereft-of-common-sense/ |
Politics / Re: 11 Reasons Why Atiku Will Lose In 2019 by Naijiant: 12:13pm On Dec 28, 2018 |
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Politics / Re: Do You Know That Goodluck Ebele Jonathan Isn't Ijaw? by Naijiant: 12:09pm On Dec 28, 2018 |
Jonathan's grandfather is an Igbo man from Arochukwu that settled in Otuoke. 1 Like |
Politics / Tinubu Is Behind Okorocha's Troubles - APC Source by Naijiant: 5:47pm On Dec 22, 2018 |
Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State, who completes his second term next year, was taunted by Adams Oshiomhole, the chairman of Okorocha’s party, the All Progressives Congress (APC) at a rally yesterday for the APC governorship candidate Hope Uzodinma.More: https://www.naijiant.com/beer-parlour-gist/tinubu-is-behind-okorochas-troubles-apc-source/ |
Politics / Experts Say Nigeria Must Change Its Strategy To Defeat Boko Haram by Naijiant: 3:32pm On Dec 21, 2018 |
The resurgence of attacks by Boko Haram in parts of northeastern Nigeria has raised concerns that the jihadist group is far from being vanquished. Security experts are now urging a change in counter-insurgency measures.More: https://www.naijiant.com/guestcolumn/experts-say-nigeria-must-change-its-strategy-to-defeat-boko-haram/ |
Politics / Re: British Peer Accuses Buhari Of "Ineffectiveness" On Fulani Herdsmen Violence by Naijiant: 11:08am On Dec 21, 2018 |
Larryfest:Your mumu never do. |
Politics / British Peer Accuses Buhari Of "Ineffectiveness" On Fulani Herdsmen Violence by Naijiant: 12:23am On Dec 21, 2018 |
The House of Lords in the UK held a debate titled “Nigeria: Intercommunal violence” on Tuesday. During the debate, Liberal Democrat Lord Chidgey said: “… following Amnesty International’s report yesterday which confirmed that more than half of the 3,600-plus deaths over the past three years of the conflict in Nigeria have occurred this year, what discussions are the Government planning with their Nigerian counterparts about the failure of their security forces? I note the Minister’s comments about the 30,000 who are being trained. Will he also comment on the negative impact that the corruption among senior officers is having on the welfare and security of their troops? Does he agree that it contributed to the recent massacre at Metele, which was not helped by the ineffectiveness in these matters of the ex-general, President Muhammadu Buhari? “More: https://www.naijiant.com/articles/british-peer-accuses-buhari-of-ineffectiveness-in-dealing-with-fulani-herdsmen-violence/ 1 Like 1 Share |
Politics / Living Without Electricity In Buhari's Home State by Naijiant: 4:13pm On Dec 16, 2018 |
The lack of electricity is pervasive in rural Nigeria, where 90 million people live entirely off the grid. Zaharaddeen Umar, from the German public service broadcaster, DW, asked people in one village in far northern Katsina State how they get by in the dark. Nigeria's president Muhammadu Buhari comes from Daura in Katsina State.More: https://www.naijiant.com/guestcolumn/living-without-electricity-in-buharis-home-state/ |
Politics / Al Jazeera’s Mehdi Hasan Asks The Questions Nigerian Journalists Fail To Ask by Naijiant: 4:30pm On Dec 15, 2018 |
Nigerian journalists should watch Al Jazeera’s Mehdi Hasan and always do so with pen and paper ready for note-taking. Hasan was at his best again on the Upfront programme titled: “Who will be Nigeria’s next president?”, and trying to hold Nigerian politicians to account – something Nigerian chequebook journalists consistently fail to do.More & video: https://www.naijiant.com/videos/al-jazeeras-mehdi-hasan-asks-the-questions-nigerian-journalists-fail-to-ask/ |
Politics / Nigeria's Vice Presidential Debate Shows Why (s)elections Are A Waste Of Time by Naijiant: 12:24am On Dec 15, 2018 |
Five candidates for the Number Two position in Nigeria lined up this evening on national TV for a debate. The word "debate" is used very loosely here. There was a lot of talk, but precious little substance.More: https://www.naijiant.com/videos/nigerias-vice-presidential-debate-shows-why-selections-are-a-waste-of-time/ |
Politics / Human Rights Watch Calls On Buhari To End Impunity For Killing Of Shia by Naijiant: 4:13pm On Dec 12, 2018 |
Nigerian authorities have failed to ensure justice for the killings of hundreds of members of the Shia Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) since 2015, Human Rights Watch said today in releasing a video of security forces’ violent crackdowns against members of the IMN.More: https://www.naijiant.com/videos/nigeria-end-impunity-for-killings-of-shia/ |
Politics / Abuja Vibes Don't Feel Good For Buhari by Naijiant: 2:15pm On Dec 11, 2018 |
Abuja, Nigeria's once-gleaming and supposedly modern capital, mainly built in the 1990s, seems to be a shadow of its former self. Yours truly spent the last weekend there and tried to gauge the national mood with the 2019 presidential (s)election less than three months away.More: https://www.naijiant.com/articles/abuja-vibes-dont-feel-good-for-buhari/ |
Politics / Re: see Buhari and Jubril pictured together at an event by Naijiant: 11:22am On Dec 11, 2018 |
crunchyg:That's FCT Minister Mohammed Bello. |
Politics / Re: Jubril: Kanu Is A Drug Addict Who Shouldn’t Be Taken Seriously – Arewa Youths by Naijiant: 1:45pm On Dec 10, 2018 |
Politics / Buhari Is The Laziest Nigerian President Ever by Naijiant: 11:12pm On Dec 09, 2018 |
Buhari reportedly only spends an hour in the office and doesn't read any papers. More here: https://www.naijiant.com/beer-parlour-gist/buhari-is-the-laziest-nigerian-president-ever/ |
Politics / Oby Ezekwesili Takes Talking Loud And Saying Nothing To Chatham House by Naijiant: 6:28pm On Dec 06, 2018 |
Oby Ezekwesili, who is meant to be running for president with the Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN), which might as well be called the "No Hope Party of Nigeria", spoke at Chatham House in London on Monday.More: https://www.naijiant.com/articles/oby-ezekwesili-takes-talking-loud-and-saying-nothing-to-chatham-house/ |
Politics / Jubril Al-sudani, The Buhari Joke That Has Gone Too Far by Naijiant: 7:33pm On Dec 03, 2018 |
I have thus far refrained from talking about Jubril al-Sudani, because it is bunkum. And I was quite glad that President Muhammadu Buhari had also ignored it, or, appeared to have. Until yesterday.More: https://www.naijiant.com/guestcolumn/jubril-al-sudani-the-buhari-joke-that-has-gone-too-far/ |
Politics / Re: Nnamdi Kanu: Where Is The DNA Evidence? by Naijiant: 8:27pm On Dec 02, 2018 |
kid23:Kanu said last week that he will present DNA evidence during his broadcast yesterday. He did not. He did not do what he promised to do. He did not even mention DNA yesterday. 1 Like |
Politics / Nnamdi Kanu: Where Is The DNA Evidence? by Naijiant: 6:38pm On Dec 02, 2018 |
Last week Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the separatist group, the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), promised to "unmask with DNA evidence" the "impostor Jubril from Sudan" who has allegedly been used by the "Fulani cabal" to replace President Muhammadu Buhari. Buhari, as the Kanu tall tales go, died in January last year and rather than let the vice president take over as the law says, the cabal brought in a body double from Sudan.More: https://www.naijiant.com/articles/nnamdi-kanu-where-is-the-dna-evidence/ |
Politics / German TV: Nigerian Army Demoralized In Fight Against Boko Haram by Naijiant: 3:29pm On Nov 29, 2018 |
Buhari's failuresMore: https://www.naijiant.com/guestcolumn/nigeria-sees-pre-election-resurgence-of-jihadist-attacks/ |
Politics / British MP Asks: Is Buhari Failing To Act On Fulani Herdsmen B/c He Is Fulani? by Naijiant: 12:42am On Nov 29, 2018 |
British MPs held a debate in Westminster Hall yesterday titled: "Nigeria: Armed Violence (Rural Communities)". Jim Shannon, who introduced the debate, asked fellow MP John Howell:"Given his knowledge of Nigeria, can the hon. Gentleman see any reason why the Nigerian Government have been reluctant, unable or unwilling to respond to the high levels of violence?" Howell, the Conservative MP for Henley replied: "That is an interesting question. There is an ethnicity element to it. President Buhari comes from the area that identifies with the Fulani. I am not going to make that point more strongly. I do not know the extent to which that ethnic belonging influences him and his actions. All I will say is that I agree that less action has been taken in this area than anyone would have liked." It should be noted that Howell is the British government "envoy" to Nigeria. This may have influenced how he answered the question.More: https://www.naijiant.com/articles/british-mp-asks-whether-buhari-being-a-fulani-is-influencing-his-inaction-against-fulani-herdsmen/ |
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