Tag: political violence

Mr Obasanjo reminds Mr Biden of Cuba’s contributions to the “final liquidation of colonialism and apartheid in Africa”.

The committees were asked to submit their report in three months

Ballot snatching and violence chracterised the past elections in many places. Nigerians are fast losing faith in democracy. We need ...

INEC Chair, Professor Mahmood Yakubu Competitive authoritarianism is a system that seeks to confer legitimacy on electoral abracadabra through mechanisms ...

The clergy should be messengers of electoral peace. They should not become unwittingly the inciters and inviters of electoral violence... ...

What Nigeria is going into looks like war, not an election and that makes it scary. This may affect the ...

Speaking in Yoruba language, Sarafa Awotunde told his supporters that there would be gunshots and assaults on their opponents

“We have been receiving reports of some state governors who encourage political thugs," the IGP said.

Both sides fired guns and hurled bombs in two districts, the police said.

Violence occurred between supporters of the governor and those of his predecessor.

About 30 people are believed to have been buried there, Bujumbura Mayor, Freddy Mbonimpa, said.

The legislators argued over the sack and replacement of local council chairman.

The spectre of political violence in the state began in early January when some supporters of the APC in Rivers ...