Nigeria General Elections 2015
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As the popular saying goes, uneasy lies the head that wears the crown, and as with previous democratic presidents of Nigeria, it’s definitely note going to be an exception for the incoming president, General Muhammadu Buhari. The president-elect will have more than social and traditional media to worry about, as the available media already got an…
This year marks the 5th General Elections to be conducted so far in the current democratic dispensation in Nigeria. None have generated as much buzz as the 2015 General Elections. One cannot but reflect on the role that technology and the internet played in the electioneering process. For the first time in the history of Nigeria, the…
“The people who cast the votes don’t decide an election, the people who count the votes do.” – Joseph Stalin I guess leader of the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s, Joseph Stalin was wrong on this. But he wasn’t even thinking about Nigeria in the context of the above quote though. Nigerians, at the recently conducted presidential…
The 2015 General Elections in Nigeria are just days away, and there’s much buzz around change and transformation. While the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is heading to the 2015 polls with card reader devices for accreditation, as a way of guarding against election malpractices, Enough is Enough (EiE) Nigeria also wants us to head to the…
Mark Essien’s online hotel booking platform, Hotels.ng is now offering a chance to win free hotel reservations to people who participate in the in the upcoming national elections. The startup is giving this incentive to encourage and improve participation in the coming polls. Participating in the competition is simple, post a selfie of you alone,…
In Omokri’s Case, Favs always win. President Goodluck Jonathan has improved (yes, improved) his social media team, by demoting the consistently controversial Reno Omokri, and appointing Obi Asika as his new senior special assistant on social media; better late than never, I guess. I think Mr. Omokri certainly did more harm than good to the…
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Most of the election flurry and debates and everyother thing has passed by me really quickly. Of course, I have seen the campaign posters, interviews, manifestos and the slurs that the candidates have thrown at each other. Perhaps the most salient campaign point of the APC against the PDP would be the security issue we…
We’ve all been caught up in the frenzy. A few days from now, the 2015 general elections will hold. Arguably, the most keenly contested presidential election in the history of Nigeria will be held on February 14, 2015. Different parties, politicians and activists have given several reasons why the outcome of these elections, the presidential…
The general elections are about 2 weeks away, not that I need to remind you, with the aggressive (but not so focused) campaigning from both sides, you’d need to be selectively deaf and/or blind to not be aware [Soludo’s epistles >_>]. With the elections so close, Google Nigeria recently held a workshop for Nigerian journalists…
The Presidential elections are drawing closer and we have seen the extreme lengths that both sides are going to, in order to win. In the spirit of everyone revealing their plans for Nigeria if they win, the All Progressives Congress (APC) is organising a live internet broadcast via Google Hangouts which will feature Professor Yemi…