March 23, 2023

Yakubu: The ‘Professor of Rigging’ And Fraudulent INEC

March 23, 2023 4:21 am

It was Joseph Stalin who said ‘the people who cast the votes don’t decide an election, the people who count the votes do’, this was perhaps what many Nigerians forgot when they decided to invest their emotions in the fake promissory notes offered by the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu.

In the early hours of Wednesday, the 1st of March, 2023, Prof. Yakubu declared the result of the presidential election which held on Saturday, the 25th of February. Rather than jubilation, a pall of silence descended on the country because many Nigerians believed that

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How Ethnic, Religious Bigotry Destroyed Nigeria

March 23, 2023 4:14 am

Just as you don’t need to look too hard to find the elephant in a room, just a glance at Nigeria will draw your focus to ethnic and religious divisions that are breaking the country into unfixable pieces.

Nigeria is a heterogonous country with so many tribes and religions that even citizens within the country might never meet people of all these tribes in their lifetime. From language to accent, appearance, and culture, people are able to distinguish one tribe from the next. And in many cases, a person’s tribe is a determinant of their religion, although not always.

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The Rise And Fall Of Emperor Wike

March 23, 2023 4:07 am

When the good people of Rivers State went to the polls with so much zeal and excitement to elect Governor Nyesome Wike as their Governor in 2015, little did they know that they were empowering a tyrant with the keys to their collective patrimony and existence as a people. It didn’t take so long before this reality became evident and the rest, they say is history.

In his classic work on the fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon described the Roman era’s declension as a place where ‘bizarreness masqueraded as creativity.’ Nothing can better define what Rivers State became …