Presidential Candidate of Labour Party in the 2023 general elections, Mr Peter Obi, says Nigeria is not practicing true democracy and has rather degenerated to dictatorship and classical state capture. Obi said while commenting on this year’s June 12 democracy day commemoration, on Wednesday, in a series of posts on his X handle. According to him, leadership failure has resulted in uncontrolled systemic corruption, high levels of insecurity, lack of freedom of speech, increasing poverty rates, and unprecedented levels of hunger and hardship, which he said are consequences of lack of true democracy in the country. Obi said, “As our…
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. It’s mere misstep, says presidential media aide President Bola Tinubu, on Wednesday, missed his steps, slipped and fell while boarding the parade vehicle at the Eagle Square venue of the 2024 Democracy Day. But in a swift reaction, Tinubu’s Special Adviser on Social Media, Olusegun Dada, said what happened was only ‘a mild misstep,’ stressing that there was no cause for alarm. The President had earlier delivered a nationwide broadcast on Wednesday morning. Shortly after he arrived at the Eagles Square, Abuja venue of the programme, Tinubu had attempted to climb into the vehicle that would convey him for…
As Nigeria marks the 2024 Democracy Day, some protesters, on Wednesday morning, converged under the Ikeja bridge in Lagos. Armed policemen and operatives of the Lagos Neighbourhood Safety Corps, however, maintained tight security at the venue. The crowd of protesters, carrying placards and banners, chanted solidarity songs. The inscriptions on some of the placards read, ‘President Tinubu, let the poor breathe’, ‘For another general strike with mass protest now’, ‘Payment of living wage to all Nigerian workers now.”
…praises Abiola, other June 12 heroes, vows to preserve democracy . Appeases Nigerians over harsh economic situation President Bola Tinubu, on Wednesday, warned Nigerians to be on alert against the antics of anti-democratic forces in the country. He, however, also praised the winner of the annulled June 12, 1993, presidential election, Chief Moshood Abiola and other heroes of democracy, including General Shehu Musa Yar’Adua and Pa Alfred Rewane, among others. Tinubu, in his Democracy Day broadcast, also celebrated other heroes, including Chief Anthony Enahoro, Chief Abraham Adesanya, Commodore Dan Suleiman, Chief Arthur Nwankwo, Chief Chukwuemeka Ezeife, Admiral Ndubuisi Kanu, Chief…
Agency Report The 1 Division Nigerian Army on Wednesday urged residents neighbouring the shooting range not to panic over the exercise, urging them to go about their normal daily routine activities without fear. The acting Deputy Director, Army Public Relations of the division, Lieutenant Colonel Musa Yahaya, gave the advice in a statement issued in Kaduna. Yahaya also advised the residents to report any breach of security to the division’s Headquarters. He said, “1 Division Training School will conduct its final field Training Exercise for Basic Battle Course 7, within its training area around the schools’ premises in Dalet Cantonment…
A frontline Editorial Board member of the Boiling-Point Platform, Eddy Ademosu has bagged a Doctor of Philosophy(PhD) in Mass Communication and Media Studies at the Ajayi Crowther University, Oyo, Oyo State. Ademosu, who recently successfully defended his thesis on *”Public Relations(PR) Practice and Brand Management in Nigeria’s Pre and Post 1996 Banking Industry”,* earned the distinction of the academic degree by conducting an indepth comparative study of the interconnectivity between the reputation techniques of PR and Brand Management in a financial industry with utilitarian service of over 68 years. In an Abstract to the 225-page study, sighted by our reporter,…
Below is the full text of his address: My fellow Nigerians, let me begin by congratulating all of us for witnessing the celebration of another Democracy Day today, the 12th day of June 2024. This year also marks our nation’s 25 years of uninterrupted democratic governance. On this day, 31 years ago, we entered our rites of passage to becoming a true and enduring democratic society. Going through this passage was hard and dangerous. During the fateful six years that followed, we fought and struggled for our natural rights as human beings put on this earth by the divine hand…
Samuel Adesola, Abuja President Bola Tinubu, on Wednesday, said he was among those who risked their lives for Nigeria to return to democratic rule in 1999. He described himself as a direct and obvious beneficiary of the fruits of the struggle for democratic rule in the country. Tinubu stated this in his nationwide broadcast to Nigerians to mark this year’s Democracy Day. He said, “As president of this nation, I am morally and constitutionally bound to preserve this precious form of governance. “Yes, we pay eternal honour to those who laid down their lives, sacrificing everything to pave the way…
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu says his administration will soon send a new minimum wage bill to the National Assembly. Tinubu made this known in his Democracy Day broadcast on Wednesday. He stated that the Federal Government did not crackdown on Organised Labour as past dictatorial governments would have done. “We have negotiated in good fate and open arms with organized labour on a national minimum wage. We will soon send our executive bill to the National Assembly to enshrine what has been agreed upon in the next five years or less,” he said. On Monday, the National Minimum Wage committee…
By Henry Iyorkase, Makurdi The Secretary to the Benue State Government, Prof Joseph Alakali, has scored Governor Hyacinth Alia very high in the use of local high content in the construction industry in the State. Prof Alakali stated this on Tuesday while interfacing with journalists in Makurdi, on the eve of Democracy Day. He insisted that his boss scored over 70% in the beginning of his first term in office, saying he deserved support. He noted that the Governor was committed to infrastructural development and determined to empower the electorate through sound policy articulation. The Erudite scholar disclosed Alia-led Administration…