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I served as an ad hoc Presiding Officer for the (INEC) during the recent FCT election. We underwent three intensive days of training from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., fully committed to ensuring a credible and transparent electoral process.
At the end of the exercise, we were paid ₦4,500 for feeding allowance and ₦9,000 as honorarium. However, my daily transportation expenses alone exceeded ₦4,000 throughout the three days of training.
Considering the level of responsibility, physical stress, and time invested in safeguarding our democracy, the compensation provided does not adequately reflect the sacrifices made by ad hoc staff.
We respectfully appeal for a fair review of the remuneration structure. Electoral workers play a vital role in strengthening Nigeria’s democracy, and their welfare should be treated as a priority. We slept outside at our RACs
We call on Nigerians to speak up and support improved welfare for election officials.Let them pay us Adequately please .
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Oyetola vs Omisore: There is always a tomorrow
By Ismail Omipidan
I have, for a long time, refrained from intervening in the ongoing roforofo fight between the camps of my former principal, Adegboyega Oyetola, and his now-estranged political ally, Senator Iyiola Omisore. However, after reading certain planted stories now being amplified by Omisore's supporters, I felt compelled to do this intervention. Both parties may not like some of the things I am about to say, but I owe the public the right to know. And if in the end, Omisore’s men choose to come at me from all cylinders, I will take it in good faith. After all, I have taken several bullets for Oyetola in the past, so this one won’t break me.
While the Aregbesola camp may argue that the APC did not need Omisore to win the 2018 governorship re-run election, the facts say otherwise. If what happened did not happen, the party leaders who championed the negotiations at the time would not have run to Omisore. This is despite the fact that some of the negotiators had funded and supported Moshood Adeoti in the ADP to create the very stalemate the APC faced. I will go into the details of all these later, but certainly not in this piece.
Anyway, apart from the ministerial position, every other item that was negotiated was implemented to the letter by Oyetola. He gave out commissionership and SA slots, and he consistently deferred to Omisore on several sensitive matters, often to the displeasure of some of his closest aides. It even got to a point where Aregbesola began referring to Omisore as Oyetola’s new leader.
If Oyetola cannot be credited for anything else, he should at least be acknowledged for saving Omisore from political oblivion. But for Oyetola’s efforts and insistence, there was no way Omisore would have emerged as the APC National Secretary at the time he did. And that single event revived and preserved Omisore’s political career. Till today, some APC elders in the South-West have not forgiven Oyetola for the role he played in Omisore's emergence.
I know some people may argue that Omisore could still have secured the position without Oyetola’s backing, given the support he enjoyed from the late Akeredolu, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, and some of Buhari’s men. But the prestige and political weight of home support accorded him would certainly not be there without Oyetola. I was at the convention ground. I saw and knew all that transpired. I was always with Oyetola, in the days leading to that convention, going back and forth to Asiwaju, our now President and Baba Akande's residences. In fact, there are days that we will go there more than thrice in one day, and remain sometimes till 2 am.
For me, I believe we did not see much of Omisore’s influence in the 2022 governorship election results. Many still insist that if Oyetola had not ceded the entire Ile-Ife structure to him, the outcome of the election in that area would have been different. But all that is now history. The point I am making is simple: Oyetola deserves some respect from Omisore and his Rottweilers. Life is not static. As we say in Yoruba, rain dey beat person enter the same house twice o.
I also recall how, under Omisore’s stewardship as National Secretary, the Bayelsa governorship ticket was handed to someone else against the wise counsel of senior party elders. Oyetola was severely tongue-lashed afterward, with some saying, “Ṣé bi eyin le mu wa?” (After all, you are the ones who brought him- Omisore.)
For Oyetola, I strongly advise that he continues to demonstrate maturity in the face of these blackmails, provocations, and intimidations. This too shall pass. Although, I also believe that if Oyetola had confronted Omisore earlier and advised him against putting his hat in the ring in the first place, perhaps what we are witnessing today might have been avoided. But could he really have stopped him from pursuing his ambition?
Due to the current crisis within the leadership of the People’s Democratic Party(@OfficialPDPNig) at the national level, on the 4th of November, 2025, I officially conveyed my resignation letter as a member to the leadership of the party in Sagba Abogunde, Ward 2, Ede North local government.
I thanked the party and its numerous members and supporters for the opportunities given to me to use the platform for my elections as first a Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and now as Governor of Osun State.
Ribadu: Abducted Niger schoolchildren are doing fine — they’ll return soon
Nuhu Ribadu, the national security adviser (NSA), says pupils and staff abducted from St. Mary’s Private Catholic Primary and Secondary School, Papiri, Agwarra LGA of Niger state, are in good condition and will soon be reunited with their families.
On November 21, armed men attacked the school and abducted 315 people — including 303 students and 12 teachers.
Subsequently, the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in Niger state said 50 students abducted from the school had escaped from captivity.
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"I am not unaware that there were a few voices of dissent against the proclamation, which led to their instituting over 40 cases in the courts in Abuja, Port Harcourt, & Yenagoa, to invalidate the declaration. THAT IS THE WAY IT SHOULD BE IN A DEMOCRATIC SETTING." - President Tinubu on Rivers State Of Emergency