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Candidate For Change And Not Party For Change ~SANNI AYODEJI

With a Political Undertone; Nigeria Politics is one thing I used to know that seems very articulate and interesting when it comes to Discussing. Leadership from unset has been a thing of the Flesh, only resides with the kind of individual if You will bring out the value of your flesh. To start with, #Team Buhari#- Firstly, Buhari without any iota of Doubt is no point of a Good leader but to be Frank he is also a Good Leader.  1. Insurmountable economic problems plagued the Buhari regime as petroleum prices collapsed in the face of expanding foreign debt. Buhari instituted austerity measures that caused severe hardship to the average Nigerian. In addition, political corruption continued unabated, with politicians escaping to Western countries with millions of dollars in government money. In an effort to stop dissension, Buhari instituted restrictions on the press, political freedoms, and...

Getting The FEC To Clean Up Its Cookstove Act, By Temilade Sesan

A few weeks ago, newspapers around the country reported on an issue that hardly ever makes its way to the forefront of public consciousness: clean cookstoves for the poor. Several popular blogs ran reprints of the newspaper articles, most of them featuring reader comments that were unapologetically and almost uniformly vilifying in their condemnation of what many see as the government’s latest display of ineptitude and wastefulness. The crux of the story is that the Federal Executive Council suddenly announced plans to import clean cookstove components and ‘wonderbags’ for free distribution to ‘poor rural women’ with the colossal sum of N9.2 billion – and this is for the first phase alone. By the time the ‘aggressive’ scheme winds up five years from now, the project is expected to have spent tens of billions more procuring a total of 20 million cookstoves for poor households nationwide. Notwithstanding the public sentiments alleging subterfuge and foul play, it is inde...

URGENT APPEAL ~OluwaKayode Ogundamisi

Urgent Appeal! #GMB15 before it is too late, please tweet to @AsiwajuTinubu let him know anyone advising him to run 4 VP is Nigeria’s enemy, if the former Lagos State Governor should run he would have erased all the goodwill he gained in the last one year as a result of his determination in building a formidable opposition. It is time Tinubu should stop listening to the hawks around him and concentrate on building a viable opposition behind the scene. Nigeria can not afford to miss an opportunity for change and progress.                                          ~Kayode Ogundamisi (@Ogundamisi).

THE FAULT IS IN US NOT IN OUR STARS ~Dada Ajibola

it is disheartening that government care not about these which has affect majorly all sector of the economy. But by far, what happens to be the greatest challenge in this country is the issue of conducting free and fair election that is acceptable locally and internationally.. With all these manifestations, Nigerians often appreciated the essence of good governance, transparency and accountability. Despite all these blessings, corruption has pervaded all spheres of public. And private life with serious implications for service delivery without concrete efforts from government to fight this menace. Political office holders do seldom want to leave office, they manipulate the electoral process and compromise the electoral process and electoral laws. The electoral reform being articulated by well-meaning Nigerians centers on the following issues: Independent candidacy, membership of political party to contest election, restriction on political party formation, campaign fin...

IF IT IS IN THE INTEREST OF NIGERIANS: CHOICE OF APC VP CANDIDATE ~ 'Deolu OYEBODE

IF IT IS IN THE INTEREST OF NIGERIANS: CHOICE OF APC VP CANDIDATE 14th December 2014. The National Chairman, All Progressives’ Congress, Abuja. Through: The APC Deputy National Chairman (South) Your Excellency, IF IT IS ABOUT CHANGING NIGERIA; THE CHOICE OF APC AND GENERAL MUHAMMADU BUHARI’S VP 1. I am humbled to join my voice with many Nigerians and party faithful on the need for our great party to consider some very pivotal points on the selection of who is best to be the running mate of our great leader and mentor, the standard flag bearer and candidate of our great party APC, HE General Muhammadu Buhari (retd). It is a statement of fact that the party will present to Nigerians sooner than later, the anticipated VP candidate having sought the opinions of Nigerians and the country’s Statesmen in the next few hours, I have thus decided to share my very little opinion as a party man; A Party that recognises the wishes of her members, and poised on CHANGING t...

President Jonathan: A Litany Of Failed Promises By Babatunde Raji Fashola

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My duty today is simple; yet it is one that excites me very deeply because as I welcome you all to Lagos and to the first Presidential Convention of the All Progressives Congress, I am confident that I am welcoming you to change. I welcome you to a change that is for the better. I welcome you to change that will liberate Nigeria from inefficient national management. I welcome you all delegates from across Nigeria, to Lagos, where the first building blocks of the country now known as Nigeria were laid. I welcome you back to the epicenter of nationalism and the home of change, where our pre-eminent nationalists forced a change from colonial government to a Nigerian government. I welcome you all back to where the promise of Nigeria was hatched, as a land of endless opportunities. Unfortunately, the bridge between us and our opportunities have been shattered by a series of broken promises by a party, Government and President for whom promises mean nothing. I have...

2015 ELECTIONS What’s Faith Got To Do With It? John Kayode Fayemi, PhD. Civil / Military Relations Expert

A Speech at   GLEEHD Foundation’s Election ThinkTank Series Lagos, Nigeria, Tuesday, November 12, 2014 Protocols “It is easy to blame religion-or more fairly, what some people do in the name of religion-for all our troubles, but that is too simple. Religion is a powerful force, but its impact depends entirely on what it inspires people to do. The challenge for policy-makers is to harness the unifying potential of faith, while containing its capacity to divide”                                                         ~Madeleine Albright I am delighted to share my thoughts with this distinguished audience on a subject that has gained primacy in public discourse in recent times and which by all means deserves sober interrogation by leaders of thought in our country as the 2015 General Elections approaches. Before I go ahead, I...