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Voter Suppression through Permanent Voter’s Card, By Bamidele Adémólá-Olátéjú December 2, 2014 Bámidélé Adémólá-Olátéjú Bámidélé Adémólá-Olátéjú The Permanent Voter’s Card (PVC) is a solution in search of a problem. We must admit that there is a systematic attack on voting rights in Nigeria. The Independent Electoral Commission (INEC) is making it harder for people to vote with their vanishing PVC’s. They came out ill-prepared despite having large funds at their disposal for the PVC idea; under the pretext of preventing voter fraud and safeguarding election integrity. We know the drill; there is nothing remotely independent in INEC except in name only. With every passing day, the commission unveils new and existing practices that are designed to restrict voting rights. The voting processes in the 2011 election were criticized by concerned citizens owing to inflated votes in the South South and the South East. However, almost everyone agreed Mr. Jonathan would have won an...

The Power Of A Woman ,  By Femi Fani - Kayode February 2, 2014 Femi Fani-Kayode Femi Fani- Kayode Women are a precious gift from God but there are some things that all men need to know. Women are by far the deeper and more powerful of the two sexes. No matter how strong a man thinks he is, he is like butter in the hands of a woman that he loves. It is only a woman that can carry a child for nine months and raise that child to adulthood and yet until the day that that woman dies only she will know the real father of that child. Women are more discerning than men, more calculating, more thoughtful, more spiritual, more loyal, and more disciplined and they can handle emotional pain and psychological torture far better than men. A woman can suffer trauma, deprivation, shame, sheer cruelty and beatings from a man and still stay with him simply for the sake of the children. A woman can do anything and take anything for, or from, a man that she truly loves. A woman ...