Author: Spade Nigeria

By Emmanuel Egobiambu The Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC), Prof. Itse Sagay, says the 2023 election is one of the best in the country’s history. He spoke while fielding questions on Channels Television Sunday Politics where he hailed the role of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) in the exercise. While Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) was declared the winner of the presidential election, critics say the exercise was marred with violence. Top contenders like Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Labour Party (LP)’s Peter Obi have challenged the outcome…

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Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta on Saturday said his administration was building sustainable infrastructure for the continued growth and development of the state. Okowa stated this while speaking to journalists shortly after inspecting extent of work on Storm Drainage channel from Owa-Alero and environs through Owa-Alizomor and Owa-Offie to Iyi-Amah stream in Ika North East Local Government Area. The multi-billion naira project which is 50 per cent completed was among the projects listed in the bridging finance facility earlier obtained by the state government. The governor, who was conducted round the site by the Commissioner for Works, Mr Noel Omodon…

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A former aspirant Hous of Assembly Ughelli South Constituency DTHA and serving legislative Assistant, RT Comrade Williams Odevwarehor Aminugo, to the current workaholics Deputy Senate President of Nigerian and All Progress Congress APC Governorship candidate awaiting swear-ing, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege whose mandate was stolen by OKowa third-term bid to manipulated results scores for one Mr Francis Oboroevowori and Sheriff’Oborevwori and after losses his failed VP ticket to our President-elect Ahemed Bola Tinubu awaiting swear-ing gang up with the Delta INEC coalition officers to forge fake results sheets without coulated real results and announced ghost results scores. Aminugo who made…

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Dear President Biden, Something remarkable happened on the morning of February 25, the day of the Nigerian presidential election. Many Nigerians went out to vote holding in their hearts a new sense of trust. Cautious trust, but still trust. Since the end of military rule in 1999, Nigerians have had little confidence in elections. To vote in a presidential election was to brace yourself for the inevitable aftermath: fraud. Elections would be rigged because elections were always rigged; the question was how badly. Sometimes voting felt like an inconsequential gesture as predetermined “winners” were announced. A law passed last year,…

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Governorship candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), His Excellency, Olorogun Barr. Kenneth Gbagi, has filed his petition, challenging the victory and subsequent disqualification of Sheriff Oborevwori, the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate and his Deputy, Monday Onyeme in the 18th March election. Gbagi, a renowned Criminologist, is also seeking the Governorship Election Petition Tribunal to disqualify the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Ovie Augustine Omo-Agege, All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Chief Great Ovedje Ogboru, Labour Party (LP), Kennedy Pela and their Deputies respectively. Gbagi, a former Chairman, Legal Aid Council of Nigeria, urged the Tribunal to…

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Michael Orheruata, a Professor of Agricultural Science and teacher at the University of Benin (UNIBEN), will on Saturday, April 15, 2023, join siblings and family members to bury his mother, Late Deaconess Mrs. Comfort Ewuefevwa Orheruata (Nee Adiaga) who died at 83 years. Until her transition to glory, she was a devout christian and a strong mobilizer of the women folk for peaceful coexistence of residents in the locality. A lover of western education, Late Comfort Ewuefevwa Orheruata ensured that her children got the right education to enhance their leadership roles in the society. She is the mother of Prof.…

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By OLISE ONWUSANDO The 2023 electoral season has come and gone but the varied postures and inclinations of political gladiators that mounted the soapbox are still fresh in the minds of Nigerians. The conduct of most contestants reflected the foibles of the average Nigerian politician while a small number of contestants manifested a commendable disposition such as lack of desperation in the pursuit of their ambitions. During and after the 2023 election season, Dr. Goodnews Agbi, the governorship candidate of the New Nigeria People’s Party(NNPP) in Delta State, had shown certain distinctness in carriage and approach to politicking. As a…

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By Dele Alake The noted and internationally acclaimed Nigerian novelist and essayist, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, deserves a great deal of pity and sympathy for her so utterly biased piece titled ‘Nigeria’s hollow democracy’ published in the latest edition of ‘The Atlantic’ magazine. It is a piece that does little credit to the image and reputation of a leading Nigerian thinker who ought to be a voice of truth and reason in a time when passions run high and truth is almost indistinguishable from falsehood, in a situation in which many people are heavily emotionally invested in an election which, unfortunately,…

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It would appear that a record discharge of toxic sludge from our notorious smut factory is currently clogging the streets and sewers of the Republic of Liars. It goes to prove the point that provoked the avalanche EXACTLY! The seeds of incipient fascism in the political arena have evidently matured. A climate of fear is being generated. The refusal to entertain corrective criticism, even differing perspectives of the same position has become a badge of honour and certificate of commitment. What is at stake, ultimately is – Truth, and at a most elementary level of social regulation: when you are…

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By Harrison Essien “It is on record that both parties have consented to the dissolution of the marriage and the respondent has asked the court to grant her husband prayer of divorce. In view of this, the Court has no other choice than to grant the petitioner’s prayer for divorce. The marriage is hereby dissolved. The petitioner has waved the N25,000 bride price he paid. Hence the respondent has no need to return it”. The Court held. “My Lord, I have just 9 years to retire from civil service. I don’t have any child. I am exhausted in this marriage.…

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