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The game has changed. The days are gone where rampant and widespread ballot-box snatching, political thuggery, and falsification of figures at collation centres define election rigging in Nigeria.Today, vote-buying is the name of the game and just as an election ....

On July 30, 2009, the Nigerian Police Force summarily executed Mohammed Yusuf, founder of the dreaded militant Islamist group, Boko Haram, then aged 39. Nine years after, it has turned out to be an ‘unforced error’ in one of the unending incidences of extrajudicial killings that is hurting the nation dearly. Security forces had hunted…

On July 2, 2018, an Ikeja Domestic Violence and Sexual Offences Court, Lagos sentenced a 48-year-old man, Adelaja Olaide, to 60 years imprisonment for defiling a seven-year-old primary two pupil. Justice Sybil Nwaka, who convicted the paedophile, described him as an ‘animal.’ The convict, Olaide, a driver who resides at 17, Itun Oluwo Street, Ketu,…

The decision of a few yesterday’s men is today jeopardizing the future of over 9,000 children of school age when the plots of land allocated for the siting of public primary and secondary schools were sold off in two Lagos communities. This is today swelling the 11.4 million out-of-school children population in the country. UJUNWA…

African youth Monday issued their rallying call to end Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in a generation by sparking one million conversations that break the silence that allows the practice to prevail. As the largest African generation ever, the young people from all over the world have been speaking out, pledging to make theirs the generation…

Last week Tuesday, President Muhammadu Buhari wrote to the Senate requesting the lawmakers to approve the sum of N254,445,322,600 to be drawn from the 2018 and 2019 budgets to prosecute the 2019 general election.

Beyond the heavy toll on tanker drivers, who spend over 10 days on the queue for a few days’ journey, there are concerns over the safety of Lagos bridges due to the dead weight of the heavy-duty trucks that have now become permanent features on them, writes Bertram Nwannekanma https://youtu.be/uNwN5h-8Xh4 For over two years, Lagos…

Last weekend, there was a rare harvest of deaths in Abeokuta, the capital of Ogun State when 12 persons, including a mother and her two sons, were swept...

Lagos State is no stranger to many citizens of the world. While Nigeria stands tall as the most populous black country on earth, Lagos remains the economic hub of Nigeria 27 years after Abuja replaced it as the country’s capital.

Grammy award-winning artiste, James Brown, it was, who released the album in 1966, “It’s a man’s world, but not without adding “But it wouldn’t be nothing, nothing without a woman or a girl.” Across the world, the times are fast changing and women, armed with the affirmative action, are dropping the second fiddle role to…

The mission to save the 12 boys and their coach trapped in a complex cave system is currently underway. But why is the Thai soccer boys’ rescue so complicated? Thai Navy SEALs posted a video on Facebook showing the moment the British rescue divers first found the team. In the five-minute video, the boys are…

Nigeria ranks amongst nations with a high rate of out-of-school children. This is why the United Nations International Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is running a pilot project, the education Cash Transfer Programme (CTP), which is already being implemented in Sokoto and Niger states. UJUNWA ATUEYI writes on the need for northern governors to adopt this initiative…