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Human Rights Watch (HRW) has on Monday revealed a report concerning the 2019 presidential election that brought President Muhammadu Buhari back into office for his second term as Nigeria’s President. The HRW report comes in few months after Buhari (APC) defeated his closest counterpart of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar in the presidential elections. Evritinnaija s understands that the HRW in its report revealed that the elections were marred by political violence, some of it by soldiers and police officers. HRW in its report released on its website called on Buhari to take concrete steps to address the widespread political violence. The report noted that the election period included persistent attacks by factions of Boko Haram terrorist group in the northeast. In part, the statement noted as thus: “The national and state elections in February, March, and April 2019 contributed to the general insecurity across the country. The politically related violence re

Justice M. L Garba has replace d Justice Zainab Bulkachuwa as the head of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal. Justice Garba is the presiding Justice of the Lagos Division of the Court of Appeal. The Peoples Democratic Party had called on the Court of Appeal to replace Bulkachuwa in the presidential panel to avoid a delay in the prosecution of their petition. The party had also written Justice Bulkachuwa to excuse herself from the Presidential Tribunal sitting over the petition filed by its Presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar . Garba, who appeared on the five-man panel for the first time on Monday, replaces the President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Zainab Bulkachuwa. Bulkachuwa had withdrawn from the panel after allegations were raised against her of being bias by PDP and its presidential candidate. The petition written by PDP and former Vice President is challenging the victory of President Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress in the Feb

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Rochas Okorocha, former governor of Imo State, has challenged his successor, Emeka Ihedioha, to stop behaving like a lawmaker. He said rather than settle down to his responsibility of governance, Ihedioha had been setting up committees as if he was still a member of the House of Representatives on oversight functions. The governor stated this in a statement signed by his Media Aide, Sam Onwuemeodo, yesterday. The statement read, “The new governor of Imo State, Chief Emeka Ihedioha, has not started to govern the state; looking at his activities and utterances so far. “He has been embarking on oversight functions as if he is still at the National Assembly where he was, uninterruptedly, for 12 years. “He has also been busy setting up series of committees with at least three committees a day, and has never done any serious thing or taken any serious step or said any serious thing to show that he has actually taken the seat as the governor of the state. He also seems not to have ca

Without a warning, the thought of him enters your brain and stays there day and night. Everywhere you look, you see his name printed in capital letters. You try to remember the last time you felt this dizzy and conflicted and torn. You close your eyes and embrace the silence around you, hoping to understand your emotions. And it’s somehow working. You’re starting to figure out why you suddenly can’t stop thinking about him. “This isn’t love yet,” you tell yourself. But it’s a little close to that. You’re few moments away from tearing your walls down. The logical part of you is slowly disappearing. And you’re acting like a kid again. You catch yourself smiling for no reason at all. You rest your chin above your hands, unconsciously daydreaming. “How did this happen?” you ask yourself. You look back on the day you first met, when he shook your hand, when you first heard him speak. Maybe his touch melted the coldness in your heart and you weren’t aware of it at that time. Maybe when

A group, Alaigbo Development Forum (ADF), has called on the people of Southeastern Nigeria to be ready to defend themselves against alleged impending attacks by those it called jihadist organisations. The group led by Professor Uzodimma Nwala stated this in a communiqué it made available to newsmen on Sunday. It said the communiqué came following exhaustive discussions by its members. The communiqué read, “There is an agenda of a bloody islamisation and jihad to conquer, occupy, take over and enslave Alaigbo and elsewhere in the Federal Republic of Nigeria. “Ndigbo should do everything in their power to defend themselves, wives, children and their ancestral land.” The group also resolved that: “a memorandum to alert Ndigbo in Nigeria and in the Diaspora on the peace, development and security of Alaigbo should be prepared; all stakeholders in Alaigbo, including the governments and traditional institutions in Alaigbo, to pursue a common agenda in the interest of the surviva

Presidential candidate of Young Progressive Party (YPP) in the 2019 elections, Kingsley Moghalu has blamed northern elites and politicians of encouraging poverty among the masses. Moghalu made this statement on Sunday while speaking at the Ra’ayi Initiative for Human Development (RIHD) annual lecture, in Kano. He spoke on “Northern Nigeria’s prosperity in the 21st Century: The imperative of social and economic transformation.” According to him, the selfishness of the northern political class remains the major cause of poverty and under-development in the region. He wondered why the North could hold power at the centre for 42 years and still remain “the headquarters of poverty in Nigeria.” He said solutions for repositioning the North are based on re-setting of the people’s mindset and worldview, insisting that, “the problem with the North is the North versus itself. Moghalu urged northerners to make human development their priorities, adding that there was a nagging need to fi

I never thought I could get myself into an ‘almost relationship’, one that starts out fast, and ends fast. And I never thought that an ‘almost relationship’ could also break my heart. The thing about ‘almost relationships’ is that there is potential for an actual relationship. It could bloom into one, right? And that’s the exact downfall about it. You keep hoping and praying that it’s going to turn into something beautiful. You keep thinking that it will until he texts you that he has changed his mind. You keep thinking that it’ll turn into a love story, until he really does change his mind and walks out. I was positive it was going to work out with this guy. I got giddy when I saw him. My heart beat out of my chest when I was with him, and I felt breathless in his presence. I introduced him to my friends. I slept over at his place. I told him my deepest secrets. I kissed him like I could only kiss a boyfriend. I gladly, let him walk into my life. And I never expected him to wa

CAUTION: DO NOT READ THIS ARTICLE ANYWHERE NEAR THE PERSON YOU’RE THINKING ABOUT BASED ON THIS TITLE UNLESS YOU’RE READY TO WALK AWAY RIGHT NOW… Labelless love. That bastard. I wish I knew then what I know now. Whether you call it a “situationship”, an “understanding”. or you’re really not sure what to call it… a labelless love is definitely one you should leave in 2018. Here are 8 things I wish I would’ve known before getting into a labelless relationship. 1. The title actually does matter . We see it all the time on social media that “the title doesn’t matter”, but yes the hell it does. A labelless relationship does nothing but leave room for misunderstandings, confusion, and ultimately, heartbreak. Here I am, happy as all get out, providing the best girlfriend qualities I possess just to be introduced as his friend months after we had been involved. It was like a slap in the face. I wasn’t “just your friend’ when you were holding me at night or when you wanted me to cook fo

Explains how ‘unholy trinity’ of Hausa-Fulani, Igbo and Yoruba compromises security Zacharys Anger Gundu is a professor of archaeology at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. He is also the Pro-chancellor and Chairman of the Governing Council of Benue State University, Makurdi. He had spoken extensively in the past on the security challenges in the country. In this interview, Gundu speaks on the dangers constituted by herdsmen and other criminalities in the country. He also speaks on other developments in the polity. The country is virtually held by the jugular by security challenges. What in your opinion is responsible for this dismal state of things? Successive governments, right from the military era, have slept on duty on several issues including the security of the country. During the military, there was more concern for securing military dictatorships than securing the lives and property of ordinary citizens. The different fault lines and grievances of citizens and constituent

A Second Republic lawmaker, Dr Junaid Mohammed, has slammed former President Olusegun Obasanjo and former Defence Minister, Lt.-Gen. Theophilus Danjuma (rtd) over their claims that there was a “Fulanisation” and “Islamisation” agenda. Mohammed,  who is a Kano-based sociopolitical critic, said that Obasanjo and Danjuma were among retired soldiers that “conspired” to impose President Muhammadu Buhari on Nigerians in 2015. He said that they were only complaining now because they fell out with the Buhari administration. Recall that Obasanjo in May said that there was a plot by Boko Haram and Fulani herdsmen to “Islamise Africa” and “Fulanise West Africa”. Last week, the Nigerian Christian Elders’ Forum (NCEF) that has Danjuma as a prominent member reported the Buhari administration to the United Kingdom’s All Party Parliamentary Group for International Freedom of Religion or Belief. According to the Christian elders, the Buhari administration has been aiding jihadists instead o