Nigeria can arguably be said to be a patriarchal society where men hold primary power and predominate in roles of political leadership, moral authority, social privilege and other areas. But some Nigerian women in the civic space are pushing the limits, finding expressions, influencing political and social structures around them without fear. From Aisha Yesufu who has been leading the campaign [...]
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Oby Ezekwesili, former minister of education, and leaders of the Nigerian community in Cape Town, South Africa, have asked Cyril Ramaphosa, president of the country, to apologise to Nigerians and other countries whose citizens were victims in the recent xenophobic attacks. In a communique issued after a meeting held to proffer solutions to the recurring incident, the concerned Nigerians asked the government [...]
The recent trip of Nasir el-Rufai, governor of Kaduna state, and Kayode Fayemi, his Ekiti state counterpart, to South Africa is causing storm on Twitter. Both governors attended the "Africa in the World Festival of Ideas", a programme which held in Stellensbosch, South Africa. Pictures of the governors with Muhammadu Sanusi, emir of Kano, had generated reactions on social media. Many Twitter users mistook [...]
Oby Ezekwesili, former minister of education, has described President Muhammadu Buhari as a "completely out-of-touch leader" over his directive to the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to stop providing foreign exchange for food importation. In a statement issued on Tuesday by Garba Shehu, presidential spokesman, the president said he had asked the CBN to stop issuing foreign exchange for food importation [...]
Garba Shehu, senior special assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on media and publicity, is facing backlash over a comment he made about Oby Ezekwesili, former minister of education, on Sunday. One Christopher Okagbare had made a post on Twitter asking for Shehu's reaction to comments made by Ezekwesili against the president. "Dear @GarShehu, Oby (Ezekwesili) has lately attacked the President at so [...]
Oby Ezekwesili, former minister of education, says President Muhammadu Buhari is not taking charge of the country’s armed forces. She said this in an interview with journalists at the 11th Wole Soyinka Centre Media lecture series, in Lagos, on Saturday. The event was organised to celebrate the 85th birthday of Wole Soyinka, Nobel laureate. The former minister said Buhari feels more comfortable in [...]
The Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN) has demanded that Oby Ezekwesili, former presidential candidate of the party, return all funds generated during her campaign. On Wednesday, Ezekwesili had accounted for "every penny" spent on her campaign. The former minister said the campaign raised N48,957,416.00, $17,645.00, and £200, from October 1, 2018 to February 2, 2019, before she withdrew from the presidential race. But [...]
I didn’t notice the squirrel until later. The Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN) actually has a squirrel as its logo, but I didn’t make out the silhouette until the leadership of the party showed its furry hand last week. The founders of the party may have been thinking of an easily recongisable symbol when they chose the squirrel, but the [...]
Omoyele Sowore, presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), says his party cannot afford to pollute its ideology by joining a coalition. Sowore said this on Tuesday during a morning show on Arise Television. The presidential candidate said his colleagues from other parties have not reached out to him on the issue of coalition. On Thursday, Fela Durotoye, presidential candidate of the [...]
What was Oby Ezekwesili’s agenda? What was her interest? And what was her endgame? A few weeks to the general election, Ezekwesili woke up marketing the illusion that she was “Esther”; the destined liberator of Nigerians. She claimed she was running for president under the Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN). Before her political interest, she founded the “Red-Card Movement”, the so-called [...]
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it is too late for any candidate to withdraw from contesting any position in the upcoming elections. INEC said this while reacting to the withdrawal of Oby Ezekwesili as presidential candidate of the Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN) Ezekwesili announced her withdrawal on Thursday, saying she wanted to give room for a coalition against candidates of [...]
The Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN) says it will support President Muhammadu Buhari's re-election bid. The development is coming hours after Oby Ezekwesili, presidential candidate of the party, withdrew from the race. On Thursday, Ozioma Ubabukoh, spokesperson of the Obiageli Ezekwesili Presidential Campaign Organisation, said the former education minister will now devote her time in building a coalition that would the defeat [...]
Fela Durotoye, presidential candidate of the Alliance for New Nigeria (ANN), says he is ready to withdraw from the race for a consensus candidate. In an Instagram post on Thursday, Durotoye said he is ready to support either of Omoyele Sowore, presidential candidate of African Action Congress (AAC), and Kingsley Moghalu, Young Progressive Party (YPP), to win the presidential elections "for [...]
Following her withdrawal from the presidential race, Oby Ezekwesili, presidential candidate of the Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN), has got Nigerians talking. Her decision to withdraw and focus on helping to build a veritable coalition to face the #APCPDP in the forthcoming elections has been met with diverse reactions on social media. Here's what Nigerians are saying on Twitter. https://twitter.com/thesocio_media/status/1088341500398841857 https://twitter.com/PelumiK/status/1088343466185232384 https://twitter.com/elsieisyblog/status/1088341583357972480 https://twitter.com/degemstone69/status/1088341517851185152 https://twitter.com/Ceorhemz/status/1088341338674868224 https://twitter.com/neotastic/status/1088343249071284224 https://twitter.com/ojofisayoolaoye/status/1088341220169080832 https://twitter.com/abbassalihu247/status/1088343877571014659 https://twitter.com/AbuDooshima/status/1088340898855960576 https://twitter.com/LifeOfOneX/status/1088340850541772800 https://twitter.com/BuchiIzuchuks/status/1088341975860948992 https://twitter.com/Chukwu_emekah/status/1088344831926120448 https://twitter.com/RotimiAdebayo9/status/1088344429243568128 https://twitter.com/tbasejones/status/1088344022463201280 https://twitter.com/zubidavies/status/1088343632204177409 https://twitter.com/Dahveydson/status/1088343127939788805 https://twitter.com/chi_nenyenwa/status/1088343029398847488 https://twitter.com/Frances_warlord/status/1088342878546509824 [...]
Oby Ezekwesili, presidential candidate of the Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN), has assured Nigerians that she would address the increasing unemployment rate in the country if she emerges in 2019. Ezekwesili gave the assurance while reacting to the Q4 2017 to Q3 2018 job report released by the Nigerian Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Wednesday. According to the report, 20.9 million [...]
The campaign organisation of Omoyele Sowore, presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC) has asked Oby Ezekwesili, Kingsley Moghalu and Fela Durotoye to boycott the presidential debate slated for January 19, 2019. Ezekwesili is the presidential candidate of Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN); Moghalu is the candidate of Young Progressives Party (YPP) and Durotoye is of the Alliance for New Nigeria [...]
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