• Nigeria election stumbles into action as president struggles to cast vote

    Nigeria election stumbles into action as president struggles to cast vote0

    Nigeria’s eagerly awaited election got off to an embarrassing start on Saturday when the country’s president, Goodluck Jonathan, was denied registration and officials had to scramble to find a way for him to vote. National television showed Jonathan in his trademark black fedora, standing patiently in a tented polling booth for 20 minutes in his home

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  • 2015: Jonathan, Buhari, Other Presidential Candidates Sign Pact Against Violence

    2015: Jonathan, Buhari, Other Presidential Candidates Sign Pact Against Violence0

      President Goodluck Jonathan and Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Major-General Muhammadu Buhari, and other presidential candidates in the February 14 election, yesterday signed an undertaking committing them to violence-free election. The pact, known as the “Abuja Declaration Accord,” was adopted by acclamation

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  • 2015: Intrigues of bidding for power at the centre

    2015: Intrigues of bidding for power at the centre1

    It is no longer news that since the un-interrupted return of democratic rule in Nigeria from 1999 till date, the nation’s political terrain has been dominated by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Having produced the President consecutively since 1999, the party’s leadership once boasted that PDP would rule Nigeria for the next 50 years. Inspite

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