Episode 33: Outgoing packages for elected representatives

IDEAS Radio 3 May 2019
Ayo Obe is going to be talking with the Executive Director of the Social Economic Rights Accountability Project, SERAP, Adetokunbo Mumuni, who will be talking to us about lawmakers and executives who are awarding themselves pensions. The morals behind this and all of that, is what we’re going to be looking at during the IDEAS segment and the Ethics question.

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IDEAS Episode 32 (19/04/19) Outgoing & Incoming Governors

We’re looking, we’re going to be talking about political office holders who are not going to be returning to office, who include most notably Governors who will not have a second term or who have already served out their second terms. Things like awarding late contracts, appointments which will be happening between now and inauguration day, as well as some who will be granting amnesty or pardon to some convicts.

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Chibok, five years after Episode 31

IDEAS Radio 12 April 2019
it’s a big day because we’re looking at Chibok, five years after. Believe it or not, how time flies when schoolgirls, 291 of them, I remember very well that day, were taken. The anniversary falls on the weekend but we’re going to be looking the issues concerning the recap of the abduction, how citizen-led advocacy has sustained accountability. And then the Bring Back Our Girls campaign, also a key part of the day’s discussion.

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The developments in Rivers State where the last of the gubernatorial elections for the 2019 election cycle is going on Episode 30

IDEAS Radio 5th April 2019

So, on the Ideas segment today, with Ayo Obe, we are looking at the developments in Rivers State where the last of the gubernatorial elections for the 2019 election cycle is going on, and the collation of results recommenced on the 2nd of April, and INEC says this will run until the 5th, and that if there are any supplementary elections to be held, that will take place on the 13th.

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Does the process by which the leadership of the National Assembly emerge affect its oversight and accountability duties IDEAS Radio Episode 29

We’ll begin with the IDEAS segment where we’re going to be asking the question: Does the process by which the leadership of the National Assembly emerge affect its oversight and accountability duties. It’s a question Ayo Obe will be asking on Countdown on the IDEAS segment.

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The integrity of the supplementary election IDEAS Radio Episode 28

On the IDEAS segment with Ayo Obe which begins straightaway, we’re looking at the integrity of the supplementary election, as well as the big story which is coming out with respect to the Osun election where Ademola Adeleke of the People’s Democratic Party, according to the tribunal has been declared the winner of that poll. The court … the tribunal also declared that the certificate handed to Gboyega Isiaka be handed over to Ademola Adeleke, and saying that the supplementary election should never have happened in the first instance.

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Did the governorship elections meet the Integrity test? IDEAS Radio Episode 27

And Rotimi I am also throwing in another ‘I’, because with the number of states where their result has been declared inconclusive, and the pattern of voting in those states, there’s also a question about the Independence of the Independent National Electoral Commission as well.

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State Assembly and the Governorship elections, Episode 26

And we, on the IDEAS segment, be looking at the State Assembly and the Governorship elections, importantly what you need to know about the State Assembly. A lot of people have no idea that the 29 states that we’re having elections for State Assembly and Governorship, have roles to play in their day-to-day lives.

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IDEAS RADIO SHOW EPISODE 25

All right, welcome to Countdown 2019. And, we’re half way done, and we’re half way going to the next one which is a week, just a week away on Countdown 2019. Countdown 2019 is your, is your political show where we discuss all the news and all the big and significant issues ahead of the general … ahead of now the governorship election.

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IDEAS RADIO SHOW EPISODE 24

Welcome to Nigeria Info where we’re discussing all the big and significant issues on the road to … tomorrow’s election. Next month’s election. Finally, we’re here. And the last hour, we’ve been listening to a briefing by INEC, Chairman of INEC Professor Mahmud Yakubu, and as well as Inspector General of Police. Right now questions are being asked by journalists and we’ll monitor that.

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