Tag: violence
Reasons Polls May Go Violent
Nigerian elections are just ten days away, and things are getting tense, reports Reuters. The country has a couple of…
Don’t Leave The North, Okorocha Tells Igbos
Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, has advised Igbos living in the North against leaving the places they currently reside ahead…
APC, PDP Supporters Must Sheathe Their Swords
The animosity between supporters of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, and those of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has reached…
Shun violence, insult, Buhari tells supporters
The All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Flag-bearer, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, on Monday, urged his supporters to abide by the rule…
Election Violence: PDP, APC Supporters Spill Blood
Jamiu Yisa & Eromosele Ebhomele Despite the pledges made by the All Progressives Congress, APC, and the Peoples Democratic Party,…
APC mocks Rivers PDP says desperation, impending disgrace reason for violence
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Rivers state has been told that the resort to violence will…
2015 Election: The Genuine Fear Of Violence
By Godwin Onyeacholem There can be no better expression of apprehension over the 2015 elections than the spontaneous groundswell of…
The Gathering Storm
Less than six weeks to the general elections in Nigeria that promise to be the toughest contest since the return…
2015 election will be violent, says Afenifere
Kazeem Ugbodaga The Afenifere Renewal Group, ARG, says next month’s presidential election in Nigeria is laden with potential threats of…
Speak the truth, don’t fuel violence, PDP tells politicians
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has asked politicians to rededicate themselves to peace, truth and respect for constituted authority as…
2015 Election, Averting America’s Prediction
By Vincent Egwunyenga Nigeria the largest economy in Africa, the largest concentration of Black people on earth is on the…
Over 15 million children affected by violence in 2014 – UNICEF
Millions of children suffered under extreme violence, destruction and forced displacement in 2014, the UN Children’s Fund said in a…
I’m Afraid For 2015, Says Ex-Lagos CJ
Eromosele Ebhomele Former Chief Judge of Lagos State, western Nigeria, Justice Ayotunde Philips, has said she is very worried about…
2015 election on track to be volatile, vicious, says Crisis Group
Nigeria’s general election is on track to be “volatile and vicious”, the International Crisis Group (ICG) said Friday, warning that…
2015 Elections: Acts of violence not tolerated, says Sambo Dasuki
The Federal Government said on Monday in Abuja that it was determined to ensure that acts of political violence were…