
As the clock ticks towards the 2023 general elections, more female candidates, like their male counterparts, have continued to strategise and improve on their visibility by making their voices heard on why Nigerians and their constituents should vote for them. Statistics of female participation in the 2023 general elections have shown a decline compared to
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For security agencies, the saying that a critical challenge, demands a critical solution is more apt, particularly with regards to the attack on Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) facilities in the country, and indeed, in the South East. Between 2019 and 2022, there have been 51 incidents of attacks on INEC Offices in 15 states.
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The parliament is the best symbol of democracy. It is made up of the representatives of the people acting together, to control and guide the government. Under the parliamentary system of government, the leader of the government and the Ministers are all members of the parliament. There has been an argument for Nigeria to return
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The popular expression that “women rule the world” may not be widely embraced in Nigeria due to several factors including religious and cultural. Conversations are often about underrepresentation and lack of inclusivity for women in the electoral process; with declining numbers of women holding important political positions, a lot of people, including female journalists are
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The 2023 general elections are about three months away, but the political heat is getting hotter, as politicians take their jamboree to the nooks and crannies of Nigeria. It goes without saying that as election day draws nearer the more the likelihood that politicians would become more desperate and aggressively seek gaining the upper hand
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Despite a deluge of criticisms, including that of lack of empathy that have greeted President Buhari’s attitude towards the issue of floods that have ravaged at least 30 out of the 36 states of the federation, the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development and, Sadiya Umar Farouq ruffled waters Thursday when she
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