JASAWA TIMES

  By Sadiq Sabo Before the local government councils election on the Plateau late last year, there was a court order restraining the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in participating in the election owing to the fact that, there were two factions in the party and other internal skirmishes within the party. Eventually, the PDP couldn't partake in the exercise and that resulted in sweeping all the seats in the state from the ward to the local government levels by the APC. As if that wasn't enough, the PDP still went into another round of election in February this year when the seat for Bassa/Jos North federal constituency became vacant as a result of the demise of the hitherto occupant Alhaji Haruna Maitala Jingir. The PDP won fraudulently but later relinquished the seat after the tribunal sacked it and affirmed by the appeal court. According to legal practitioners as well as going by the verdict of the court of appeal, the PDP does not have the structure to sponsor, nominate and c...

  By Sadiq Sabo As the 2023 general elections draws nearer, permutations, strategies and other political alliances, adjustments and realignments are heightened all in the hopes of wooing the electorates and of course, gaining a good ground ahead of the polls come next year. The nation's electoral umpire, the independent national electoral commission (INEC), had last month, published the names of national assembly candidates under various platforms (political parties) and that has served as a harbinger and heralded the start of the electioneering campaigns especially as the September 28th date came and gone, ushering in the election season. The publication of names is the last in the political parties' process of fielding candidates, as that would cement the candidates' and their parties' resolve and aspirations and of course, spur them to begin the campaigns in earnest. On the Plateau here, the case is no different. The Peoples Redemption Party (PRP), which is the oldes...

  THERE WAS A COUNTRY? The justice is usually just an illusion, The law could just be manipulated not on action, The people are dare to be intimidation, The humanity are left with illiteracy and temptation. striking is the action,and no one to help in education students where live stranded. In one country, Impartiality is just a slogan of taking action, Indigenous rights has been taking away by action, Cultural riches has blasphemies every reaction, Commoners at any time in manipulation. In one country, Capitalism has thrives into people creation, Imperialism of profited is there in people action, Foreign capital investment is rampant in the nation, Foreign natives has dominated the nation. In one country, The people where murdered and ambushed with less action, The poor battling With hunger, while the rich are pouring dollars in their weddings, The expenses of medicines and hospitals frightened ones existence, The life of people has left with a sword and weapons to be hanged. In o...