Ajibola AMZAT 49 posts

THE Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD) has scored President Muhammadu Buhari low in the fight against corruption, despite his campaign promise of change. According to CDD, many Nigerians had high hopes that President Buhari would…
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In February, four young men lost their lives in Sagamu, Ogun State. They are victims of brutality that has characterised operations of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), a unit of the Nigerian Police Force. The police authorities…
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THE government of South Africa has imposed a travel ban on foreign nationals from Coronavirus high-risk countries such as Italy, Iran, South, Korea, Spain, Germany, the United States, the United Kingdom and China. The travel ban takes…
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MEN suspected to be officers of the State Security Service (SSS) on Sunday morning breached the security of the Abuja residence of Muskilu Mojeed,  the Editor-in-Chief of the PREMIUM TIMES, The ICIR has learnt Two plain-clothes men who…
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Europe should help develop Africa because they helped in underdeveloping Africa
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MATTHEW Urhoghide, Chairman Senate Committee on Appropriation was upset this morning when responding to questions on Sunrise Daily, a Channel television programme. The Committee he chairs just obtained the Auditor-General’s report that…
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A COALITION of civil society organisations has demanded a full measure sanction against all federal agencies and their heads that have failed to account for public resources allocated to them in 2017 and the previous years. The group in a…
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THE attention of the International Centre for Investigative Reporting, ICIR, has been drawn to fake news purportedly written by one Deborah MacJacobson, published on January 20, and shared on various WhatsApp groups. The report, titled,…
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IN inner Mongolia, an autonomous region of northern China, an old lady was brought to a stop by a loud voice as she wandered the street. She looked left and right to know where the voice was coming from. Then, she looked up. The voice…
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FOLLOWING The ICIR's report on the travail of missing persons in the northeastern Nigeria and the struggle of their families to get justice, the Federal House of Representatives has resolved to declare the status of missing persons and…
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Women of Borno have seen it all: Torture,  killings and prolonged detention of their sons and husbands by soldiers fighting insurgency in northeastern Nigeria since 2009. Now the women can no longer bear suffering and injustice that come…
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BABATUNDE Fowler, chief executive of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), is expected to respond to the query served him by President Muhammadu Buhari today. The query stamp, dated August 8, was issued over declining tax collection…
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IN May 2016, barely a year after the commencement of his first term in office, President Muhammadu Buhari in London committed Nigeria to joining Open Government Partnership initiative. Two months after the promise, Nigeria formally became…
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COMMUNITIES in the North East, especially the people living around the Lake Chad Basin area are grappling with hunger, rape and uncertain future for their children.  Their situation may get worse as adverse ecological changes, linked to…
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AT 9 am on Saturday, members of National Association of Seadogs (NAS) aka Pyrates Confraternity were seated at the hall of Merit House in Abuja to listen to celebrated poet Dike Chukwumerije who has been billed to speak on the topic:…
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IN WHAT appeared to be one of the most contentious political race since Nigeria's return to civil rule, a winner has emerged in the 2019 presidential election; he is Muhammadu Buhari, the candidate of the All Progressive Congress.…
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THE spokesman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Buba Galadima, has been "kidnapped by masked security operatives." The party's National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbodiyan, made this disclosure on Sunday on his Twitter handle.…
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FESTUS Keyamu, the director of strategic communications, APC Presidential Campaign Council, has defended the statement by President Muhammadu Buhari which threatened with loss of life anyone that dares snatch ballot box during the general…
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MEMBERS  of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, recruited for election exercise  in Ilorin, Kwara State have protested the non-payment of their allowances by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. The youth corps members…
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THE People's Democratic Party presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, on Saturday accused the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari of plotting to disenfranchise Nigerians after the announcement of the postponement of the general …
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How poor management of Nigerian forests led to exploitation by criminals Across the world forests have been exploited as a source of cover from which to launch attacks. Rettet den Regenwald/shutterstock Azeez Olaniyan, Ekiti State…
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President Muhammadu Buhari has debunked the news gaining currency in the social media that he is being cloned, describing it as “ignorant rumour”. The president went further to assure Nigerians that his personage is not being usurped by…
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PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday has launched his campaign for the 2019 presidential election, themed ‘Next Level’. In the speech delivered at the launch,  Buhari listed his achievements in the past three and a half years, as well as…
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THE CIA has concluded that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman personally ordered the killing of  Jamal Khashoggi, despite the Saudi government's denials that the prince was not involved, according to The Washington Post. The  CIA’s…
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Contrary to the previous claim by the Saudi government that the late Jamal Khashoggi died in a rogue extradition operation, the Turkish prosecutor’s office has disclosed that the late Saudi journalist who entered Saudi consulate in…
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NOT fewer than 45 supporters of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (MIN) have been killed by the Nigerian soldiers over two days, when the Shi’a Muslim group held a peaceful religious procession around Abuja, an independent investigation by…
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JAMAL Khashoggi, the Saudi journalist who was murdered by a 15-man gang allegedly acting on the order of the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman disappeared on October 2. But before he made the final journey to the Saudi…
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AS Nigeria is celebrating the 58 years of independence today, some Nigerians are dreaming of emigrating, not to the United States of America or Europe, or any other country where the grass is greener, but to a country in the space -…
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THE Saturday 22 September gubernatorial election in Osun State is going to be a different one, if not unprecedented. In 2014, only  20 parties presented candidates for election, and the number was even fewer in the previous polls – 2007,…
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THE Presidency has denied there was any allocation for the purchase of Hilux vehicles in 2016 and 2017 appropriated budgets, but The  ICIR's check has shown that the claim is false.  Responding to the allegations that Abba Kyari,  the…
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 GOVERNOR Rauf  Aregbesola has listed 10 major achievements of his 8-year tenure on the website of Osun State government. The third on the list of his achievements is that the government has increased the Internally Generated Revenue…
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In early April, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) decried low rate of Permanent Voters’ Cards' (PVC) collection, especially in the South West.  Lagos, which was among the affected states, was found to have the highest number…
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Over I.6 million new voters have been registered ahead of the Osun State governorship election slated for September 22, and out of this number, 1.1 million Permanent Voter Cards so far have been collected.  INEC made this announcement on…
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THE demolition of Fresh FM 105.9 Ibadan, a  radio station owned by gospel musician, Yinka Ayefele has been widely reported in the news. A dominant representation in the news is that the Oyo State government destroyed a section of the…
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MR. Lawal Daura, who yesterday joined the list of ex- director-generals of the Department of State Security Services, DSS, is the fourth person to hold that office since the return of the civil rule in 1999. He is also the shortest-serving…
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BEYOND the euphoria and  anguish of political change that   characterised the just concluded 2018 Ekiti governorship election, the poll results compared with 2014 election results  announced by the Independent National electoral Commission,…
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The July 14 governorship election in Ekiti State was adjudged peaceful, despite skirmishes in a number of communities. One of the under reported issues of that election was the frustration of disenfranchised voters  who remain aggrieved…
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For the second time, Dr. John Kayode Fayemi has won in the 2018 Ekiti State governorship election having polled 197,459, while his closest challenger, Kolapo Olusola Eleka of People's Democratic Party, PDP scored 178,121. Independent…
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THE governorship election in Ekiti State though has been adjudged peaceful, the Resident Electoral Commissioner in   the state Prof. Abdulganiy Raji, on Saturday, confirmed the disruption in some areas of the state. Raji, who addressed…
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THE African Centre for Media and Information Literacy (AFRICMIL) has petitioned the Inspector General of Police, the Police Service Commission, and the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) over what it called “unethical conduct” of a police…
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There were at least 10 grammatical errors in the statement issued by President Buhari to declare June 12 as Democracy Day in Nigeria.
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BOTH the Senate President, Bukola Saraki and the Kwara State Governor, Abdulfatah Ahmed have denied association with the armed robbers who killed 33 persons during the bank robbery at Offa in April. In a statement signed by Saraki's…
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EVERY year Nigerian governments at all levels spend  an average of N241.2 billion on security votes that are never accounted for, or subjected to public scrutiny, and “lacks legal or constitutional basis”,  the 2018 Transparency…
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FORMER Vice President, Federal Republic of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar, has again called on the Buhari administration to demonstrate responsible leadership and stop the violent killings of Nigerians across the country by various…
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LONDON seems to be a place of choice for prominent Nigerians to die. In the past three years, death of five foremost Nigerians took place in London hospitals where they were receiving treatment before their passing. Last week Tuesday,…
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In 2015, Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) awarded over 300 contracts for the renovation and rehabilitation of schools across 26 states, including Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.  The Guardian monitors the school…
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