Features

Still On 2023 General Election, INEC, Media And Nigeria’s Growing Democracy

The General Election has come and gone, with mixed feelings as expected. Those who won are happy while those who lost are expectedly unhappy. I followed the event closely from the party primaries to the final declaration of winners...

Saratu Umar: Fired Twice From Same Job By Two Presidents

In July 2014, President Goodluck Jonathan appointed a career-oriented woman and investment promotion expert Hajiya Saratu Altine Umar as the new Executive Secretary/ Chief Executive Officer of Nigeria Investment Promotion Commission. It was to last for five years. It...

EMOWAA Pavilion For Arts in City of Arts

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Paris has the Louvre, New York MOMA. The London Museum is smack in the centre of England. There are as many museums in Florence and Venice as there are gondolas plying its waterways. Art aficionados and tourists flock to...

Her Excellency? Almost

For the women folk in Nigeria and beyond, it would have been a moment to relish forever if Senator Aishatu Dahiru Ahmed had won the governorship election in Adamawa state on March 18. She would have made history as...

Not Another Boondoggle Blue Rail Line Project

From the moment of conception 40 years ago, the Lagos Metro Line was doomed from the start. Proposed under the civilian administration of Lateef Kayode Jakande, it is one of the oldest projects by any state government in Nigeria,...

Benue Governorship Candidates: Their Strength And Weaknesses

March 08, (THEWILL) - In this piece, GEORGE MARTINS examines the chances and hurdles against various Governorship candidates in the March 11 polls. Various political parties in Benue state have conducted their primaries, in which governorship standard bearers have...

Ugwudoro Cultural Festival of Unity, Development

The residents of Evuazu community displayed their cultural heritage at the last year's edition of the Ugwudoro Cultural Festival, which attracted arts and culture custodians and tourism stakeholders seeking adventure. The guests at the event were excited by the...

Deploying Thugs And Technology to Win Elections

Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s victory in the February 25 presidential poll has raised hackles among his opponents who charge that thugs under the auspices of his All Progressives Congress intimidated voters and destroyed voting materials in some polling units. Because...

Travelling Puts Me In Position To Appreciate Other People’s Culture – Mba

Convener of Leadership Conference and founder, Zeal Solutions, Dr Lina Mba, speaks with JANEFRANCES CHIBUZOR about the need to rehabilitate the out-of-school girl-child, her love for Edmonton, Nigerian cultural values and why the forthcoming Leadership Conference will be hosted...

Is There No End To Electoral Violence In Nigeria?

Spontaneous acts of violence have become part of the political system in Nigeria, especially during and after elections. Last weekend’s poll was no different as hoodlums dared the authorities by disrupting the elections despite the peace accord signed by...