buhari, 2019 elections and the law

Staff Writer . . Published on September 5, 2018 . . . . . . . by Reuben Abati . President Muhammadu Buhari reportedly declared in China, last Sunday, that he believes in the idea of free and fair elections, and that he is committed to this pillar of the democratic process. ..

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Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, . and a contributing opinion writer for . ... Marina Warner is President of the Royal Society of Literature and Professor of English and Creative Writing at Birkbeck College, University of London. ..

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He is the author, most recently, of Mentored by a Madman: The William Burroughs Experiment. ... Mathews was President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace from 1997 until 2015 and is now a Distinguished ­Fellow there. ..

john ostrander: "a legacy of spies"

I’m a huge (or as our president would say, YUGE) fan of John le Carré, the English writer specializing in espionage stories. le Carre’ is the pen name for David John Moore Cornwell, who was a member of the Secret Intelligence System or MI6 so he brings a great deal of first hand..

philippines: police deceit in ‘drug war’ killings

“Our investigations into the Philippine ‘drug war’ found that police routinely kill drug suspects in cold blood and then cover up their crime by planting drugs and guns at the scene,” said Peter Bouckaert, emergencies director at Human Rights Watch and author of the report...

religious right not enthusiastic about bush

August 18, 1992 | By Susan Baer | Susan Baer,Staff Writer . HOUSTON -- Vice President Dan Quayle made his convention debut at a 'God and Country' rally yesterday, extolling traditional values, the power of prayer and a newly adopted platform so socially conservative that one Christian leader..

mckibben sees opening to press obama on climate change

Bill McKibben explains why now is the time to press President Obama on Climate Change . . Bill McKibben, author and co-founder of the global grassroots climate activist movement 350.org, kicked off the “Do The Math” tour Wednesday before over 2,000 people at Seattle’s Benaroya Hall. ..

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Ayodele Fayose GARBA SHEHU, Senior Special Adviser to Nigerian President on Media & Publicity BY YINUSA IPADE POLITICAL REPORTER, EKITI STATE, CHIME IKALU STAFF WRITER POLITICS, LAGOS & LAURETTA IBONG, POLITICAL EDITOR, ABUJA. ..

trump follows, dprk-iran lead

It is by no means impossible that we may yet see Tehran as effective as Pyongyang in dealing with the Trump administration, with President Trump, 'the great deal-maker', finding it less easy to handle the world of international diplomacy than he might have expected.' . ..

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