AHANONU KINGSLEY BLOG

Report filtering in is on the clash, today, between protesting members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria, IMN and the Nigerian Police Force in the federal capital territory, Abuja. For long, since the last five years, the members of the IMN, who are faithful of the Shiite leader, Ibrahim El-zakzaky, have consistently being staging loyalty protest and demanding the release of their leader, who has continued to be in detention even after been granted bail by courts of competent jurisdiction. Mr El-zakzaky have suffered incarceration, together with his wife, since 2015 when he was arrested by the Nigerian government for the inciting activities of his followers during one of their Qudd procession. The matter was taken to a federal high court, where the Islamic leader sought for and was obliged a bail. However, for whatever reason, and stoutly in defiance of court order, the federal government of President Muhammadu Buhari has refused to actuate this bail order. Repeatedly, the Shii...

It's apt and timely too, just as always it has been, the letter by former president Olusegun Obasanjo, which for whatever reason of his he decided to make open. Obasanjo, as usual, decided to pen to president Muhammad Buhari an open letter, which expresses his disaffection and which content we've seen grossly reflected the fears and concern of many. He has done that earlier three months before and even further before. It's not his first open letter to President Buhari and not indeed his first to a sitting president. But beyond the reason behind the open letter or the recurrence which the same has taken, I would like to be bothered here basically on three issues, which are my make out from the contents and concerns of the recent treatise. Out of the whole lots of issues and recommendations the former leader raised, my imminent focus would be on the jaggedness of the state of the nation, the fact that the nation is currently at a precipise he raised and ultimately on o...

The killing of the first daughter of Pa Reuben Fasoranti, Ms Funke Olakurin, Friday, brings to the fore the issue of insecurity that continuously has come up our national discourse. Often, the news waves are inundated with stories of insecurity. If not terror attack, or kidnapping, then it's banditry. And each as they come, is riddled with miff of apprehension. Apprehension. Daily as it comes, speaks much further and deeper of something more critical: which is that the government of the day seems overwhelmed, if not jolted, by the sizzling trend. Daily, criminality, adorned in different garbs, continue to soar, and the effort that's committed seems to be bamboozled by the force of the latter. Just as we cannot continue to rue as this thread of insecurity rises, but must stand up to be counted in the defence process, however it must be told to the government that we expect it to do more than it's doing to ensure the guarantee of the cheapest form of security the citiz...

Though it may not augur well with the majority of the Imo people, who generally perceive PDP’s victory as balm for their groans purportedly inflicted by the alleged ‘familiocracy’ of the Rochas' government. However, the reality of the matter as it concerns the electoral outcome of the just concluded gubernatorial election suggests that the process is yet to settle, that is if it going to be constitutionally looked at. And this is one lacuna the major opposition may cling unto to balkanise the celebrated outcome. Section 179 of the Nigerian 1999 Constitution (as amended), in providing the framework for the governorship process, stipulated that for a candidate to be declared as validly elected for the position of governor, the person must have a clear majority and must have at least 25% of the votes cast across two-third of the local governments. From the results reeled out by INEC, PDP’s Emeka Ihedioha garnered the highest numbers of votes cast, thus fulfilling the first...

#NigeriaDecides2019 In the final analysis, the 2019 presidential poll has been won and lost. President Muhammadu Buhari of the APC thrashed Atiku Abubakar of the PDP. While PDP had a good showing with over 11.2 million of total total vote cast, the APC carried the day with 15.1 million votes. Both parties were able to garner the required 25% of two-third of the states. President Buhari of the ruling APC is expected to be declared based on simple majority. There will be no need for a rerun, as the margin of leading is significant. With pockets of incidences, which led to obvious widespread cancellation of votes, the 2019 presidential election witnessed a great deal of disenfranchisement. With this realization, it's yet to see if Atiku Abubakar would make that 'Concession Call' as entrenched by former President Goodluck Jonathan. It is clear Nigerians prefer #NextLevelNG to #MakingNigeriaWorkAgain Congratulations PMB....

The announcement of the results for the 2019 presidential election commenced yesterday, 25th of February. The returning officers for states whose results were ready  reeled out their results. And as was widely envisaged, the battle for the soul of the Nigerian presidency seemed to be between the two rival titans, the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Meanwhile, with over 11 states including the FCT, Abuja, President Buhari of the APC is in early lead. The announcement of results resumes today by 10 am, according to INEC. Ekiti state was the first to be announced. While the APC won this state with over 219000 votes, the PDP trailed behind with over 154000. The other states declared were Osun, Ondo, Kwara, Gombe, Kogi, Nasarawa, Abia, Ebonyi, Enugu, Adamawa, Yobe and the FCT. While Muhammadu Buhari of thr APC won on Osun, Kogi, Ekiti, Gombe, Nasarawa, and Jigawa, Atiku Abubakar of the PDP waa able to make good ahowing in the FCT, ...

There is the news making round that the Nigerian currency, the naira, appreciated overnight ahead the presidential and NASS elections to N184 to 1 USdollar. The news find basis from the erroneous conversion by Google search engine of the US dollar to the Nigerian naira. But that pop up conversion has been confirmed to be a bud. Google has come out to clarify that it was aware of the bug and is doing all it can to correct it. The statement from @googleafrica reads: "We’re aware of an issue causing inaccurate conversions for Nigerian Naira currency, so we will remove the conversion onebox from appearing in search results until we are able to diagnose the issue." The official exchange rate released by the Central Bank of Nigeria puts the US dollar to 306 naira. While the parallel markets have it at N361. #VoteWisely