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Profiling NNPP’s Presidential Candidate, Rabiu Kwankwanso
Born on the 21st of October 1956, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso comes from a village located at Madobi, to a Sunni Muslim Fulani family. He attended Kwankwaso Primary School, Gwarzo Boarding Senior Primary School, Wudil Craft School and Kano Technical College after which he proceeded to Kaduna Polytechnic for his National Diploma, and Higher National Diploma.…
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Profiling PDP’s Presidential Candidate, Atiku Abubakar
Atiku Abubakar was born on 25 November 1946 in Jada, a village which was then under the administration of the British Cameroons before becoming part of Nigeria. He was enrolled in a traditional school system, while growing up due to his father’s opposition for western education. This ideology made his father, Mr Abubakar, spend a…
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Why The Anambra State Elections Was Declared Inconclusive
The electoral commission of Nigeria, INEC has suspended the collision of votes and announcement of results in Anambra State in what political party actors as well as voters opine might be a ploy to rig elections. However, INEC Returning Officer of the Anambra governorship election, Florence Obi, has disabused these opinions, saying that the suspension…
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How Twitter Promoted Movements In Nigeria (Part 2)
While the ‘indefinite suspension’ of Twitter has generated a lot of concerns in Nigeria, the microblogging platform had, in time’s past, been used to drive opinions of the people to the government or affected agencies. With an estimate of 40 million Nigerians operating on the platform, several movements have been staged through the use of…