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I do not know Tinubu or Lai Muhammed, Kwara Must Change Convener –Abdulrazaq Hamzat

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Few weeks ago, my attention was drawn to an agitprop and hogwash material circulated online by agents of the Senate President titled: Brief History of Kwara Must Change anchor (Tinubu’s Agent in Kwara). My initial reaction was to ignore it because i do not think it is worthy of my response. However, i am now forced to issue this response because of genuine concerns by friends and associates concerning the content of the material. The material, which also made it to the front page of nairaland, Africa’s largest forum was circulated by emissary of the ruling government in Kwara State in a desperate attempt to link the Pro-Democracy struggle of Kwara Must Change to end oppression and enthrone people’s governance to some imaginary sponsors that do not exist anywhere. It is important to note that, this is not the first time the Bukola Saraki led dynasty will be attempting to link Abdulrazaq Hamzat or Kwara Must Change to Former Lagos State governor, Bola Tinubu and Minister of Inf

My Presidential Candidate, PACT convener call on Nigerians to join Olawepo Hashim

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MY PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE Please Meet my choice of Presidential Candidate for the coming 2019 elections, I have met with Gbenga Olawepo-Hashim for a couple of weeks now and discussed very serious national issues, he has demonstrated his capacity and understanding of the challenges we are faced with as a nation. He understands that the first thing to achieve is building trust between the people and the government, this is the foundation for any national development, it's upon this all important foundation that every other good sprout from, and to achieve this, it's necessary to have a people centred policy but most importantly a political process that is powered by the streets and not the vault of the CBN or the treasury of the establishment. I have given my full support to him knowing fully well well that he is ready to give the major players a good fight. His $4trillion economic plan is very explicit and achievable considering our tremendous human and material resource

Olawepo Hashim Seeks Ties with Arewa on Peace, unity

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w The Presidential candidate of People's Trust ( PT),Mr. Gbenga Olawepo Hashim has appealed to chieftains of the Arewa Consultative Forum ( ACF) to continue to promote peace and sustainable development in the country. He commended the contribution of Arewa Consulative Forum (ACF) to politics and nation-building, saying ACF's contributions to national development could not be wished away. Speaking at the ACF' s headquarters in Kaduna while on a courtesy call, Olawepo Hashim urged the Arewa Leaders to support his candidature in the 2019 Presidential election in order to overcome the alleged, misrule of the present Government. Nigeria,he said ,had gone through era of economic uncertainty and insecurity. "I am ready to provide the needed leadership for unity and development," he said. Reacting,the ACF chairman,Alhaji Musa Liman Kwande said ACF as a non partisan body would support the emergence of a credible Presidential candidate that will promote

Shiite Killings: Citizens Against Humanity

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I have come to the very sad conclusions that, majority of Nigerian citizens are worse than their leaders. Maybe not so worse, but a true reflection of our leaders. When our leaders do evil, that even satan (the condemned one) often try hard to compete with, we justify the evil and even commend it. What that means is that, if given the opportunity, majority of us will do the same or worse. If given the chance, majority of us will create greater poverty in this country than we currently experience as the poverty capital of the world. If given the opportunity, we would act with greater impunity and tyranny. We will kill as much people as we desire and bring as much hardship on our people. If in the position of slight advantage, we will oppress the weak, downgrade the poor and deny everyone of what is rightfully theirs. This is the reality we have been shying away from over the years. We do not want to believe that we are all part of the problem, but indeed, we are a reflecti

How RuggedMan and 9ice elevated Afrobeat

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10 years ago, after Tuface Idibia had blessed the world with African Queen, two (2) Nigerian Music legends, Ruggedman and 9ice released a popular joint that would change the history of African music in the world forever. The smashing hit song, titled ‘’Ruggedy Baba’’ was the turning point for afrobeats music, not only in Nigeria, but in Africa as a whole. As you may have known, Nigeria is the heart of Africa and where ever Nigeria goes, the rest of Africa follows. Ruggedy Baba was a song that espoused, bolstered and propagandized the concept of mother tongue in hip hop music, transposing the myth of rappers who often claimed that only those who rap in English like Americans are truly hip hop heads. The boastful ‘’Ruggedy Baba’’synthesized hip hop music with traditional tune that was not very popular at the time and produce a masterpiece of Afrobeats music that would go on to inspire confidence in the younger generation of African artists and embolden them to confidently incorpo

PT will resist attempts to turn Nigeria into two party state- Olawepo Hashim

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The Presidential candidate of the Peoples Trust (PT), Gbenga Olawepo-Hashim, has said that his party will resist the attempts by some dominant political forces to turn Nigeria into a two party state. The Peoples Trust candidate, in a statement signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Hassan Ibrahim, said that the party is aware of some subterranean moves by certain forces to strangulate the emerging political parties and turn Nigeria into a two party state. The candidate of the Third Force Movement said that any attempt to turn the hand of Nigeria’s democratic progress backwards and curtail the fundamental rights of the people to associate will be resisted squarely. He said: “There is no democracy in the world where choices are restricted to one or two parties. Even in the United States of America, where you have two dominant parties, there is multiplicity of parties that are allowed to participate in the process. “The PT is the biggest of all the new political parties according

Trending video of extrajudicial killings by soldiers unfortunate, says FPP

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Foundation for Peace Professionals (FPP) has intercepted a trending and disturbing video online, in which soldiers of the Nigerian army are seen in the video, marching two (2) harmless civilians into a location for execution, over the simple offense of coming out during curfew as heard from one of the soldiers. As the heart breaking video proceeded, the two harmless citizens were seen being gunned down by 3 soldiers who were also celebrating the heinous crime against humanity. In the trending video, the soldiers didn’t just gun down the harmless citizens after leveling all sorts of unsubstantiated allegations against them; they also gunned down their donkeys, firing more than 30 shots in the process. We regret to say that this gruesome extra-judicial killings of innocent citizens is unfortunate and unacceptable, as it is counterproductive to our quest for peace and justice This unfortunate exposure came out barely a week after the International Criminal Court (ICC) accused th

Why People's Trust Olawepo Hashim Trended On Twitter yesterday

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People's Trust Presidential Candidate, Mr Olawepo Hashim who has promised to create a $4trillion economy for Nigeria and pay workers #50,000 minimum wage trended on Twitter with #TrustHashim2019 yesterday. Olawepo Hashim trended amidst the trend of 2019 presidential Debate. Mr Hashim who is also the presidential candidate of the 3rd Force movement recently over took President Muhammadu Buhari of APC and Alh. Atiku Abubakar of PDP as the most talked about candidate on the social media, particularly on Facebook while reacting to his exclusion from the debate declared that the debate is an APC debate. According to him, the APC is doing everything possible to shut out the third force so that they can an easy ride with the discredited PDP. But he assured that this would never happen and that both PDP and APC will be sent parking in 2019. According to data released by analyst last week, more than 28,000 people are talking about Olawepo Hashim on Facebook, compared to only 24000

FPP Nominated for NCMG Prestigious Peace Award

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Foundation for Peace Professionals (FPP), an independent Non-Governmental Organization for Professional Peace Advocacy, Research and Conflict Transformation received with great honour, our nomination for the NCMG prestigious Peace Award in the Institutional Peacebuilders category. The 2017 edition of this award category was won by the #BringBackOurGirls movement led by former Minister of Education and 2019 Presidential Candidate, Mrs Oby Ezekwesili. Negotiation and Conflict Management Group (NCMG) that was incorporated in Nigeria in 1996 translated due to global demands into an international brand with major focus on promoting and advocating for world peace and conflict management within the Africa continent. The NCMG thus became NCMG International as approved by its Board of Governors with its Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland in 2012 and has been on the vanguard of ADR development in Africa, and continues to advance the frontiers of this relatively new industry through collabor