Activists worry on salient election issues
Complex issues milling around the nation, especially on the upcoming general elections, attract mixed expressions from civil society activists. Senior Correspondent, ONYEWUCHI OJINNAKA, writes
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Fixing Nigeria from Beko memorial lecture
The ninth public lecture in honour of the late human rights activist, Beko Ransome-Kuti, was held last Tuesday in Lagos. At the event, which...
JDPC holds 50,000-man election sensitisation rally in Lagos
Penultimate Saturday, the Justice, Development and Peace Commission (JDPC) of the Catholic Archdiocese of Lagos organised a 50,000-man rally to sensitise Nigerians on the...
Polls: Civil groups’ angst over PVC shortfall
Rights groups fault the peace accord signed by presidential candidates of 14 political parties, expressing concern on the recent allegation of PVC snatching from...
General elections: Anti-corruption agenda for presidential candidates
To ensure zero tolerance corruption, and prudency in the spending of public funds by the next administration, SERAP has written to all the presidential...
How CSOs, lawyers see Fayose’s death wish publication
Criticisms have continued to trail the publication in The Punch and Daily Sun newspapers last Monday by the Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose,...
Civil groups and final trek to credible polls
With less than one month to the conduct of the presidential and National Assembly elections, political campaigns are in top gear at every level...
45 years on, with thousands killed, does death penalty reduce crime?
Bloodshed in the civil war, which lasted from July 1967 to January 1970, spilled over into the early 1970s and has risen ever since;...
Imo: The candidates, the politics
Assistant Editor, South East, CHRISTIAN NWOKOCHA, x-rays the programmes and chances of leading Imo State governorship candidates in the February election.
The Independent National Electoral...
Role of religious leaders in eliminating GBV (2)
Islamic texts seen as condoning violence against women
According to Muslim scholar and activist, Sharifa Alkhateeb, within Islam, we also find texts and interpretations of...
