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IDEAs Episode 137 One Year After the vote: IDEAs in the behaviour of POLITICIANS

Ayo Obe welcomed listeners to the last episode of IDEAs Radio.  She said that over the past four weeks the programme had looked at the IDEAs quotient in Security, the Electoral Process, the Judiciary and the Economy.  The last of the programme would be looking at Politicians, and what was their own Integrity, Ethics and Accountability contribution to our...

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IDEAs Episode 136 One Year After the Vote: IDEAs in the Economy with Bismarck Rewane

Ayo Obe said that this fourth programme in the One Year After the Vote series would look at the Economy, for which she was happy to welcome back to the programme, Bismarck Rewane, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Financial Derivatives who is an economist and a banker and was a member of President Buhari’s Economic Advisory Council.

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DEAs Episode 135 One Year After the Vote: IDEAs in the Judiciary with Ikeazor Akaraiwe SAN

icking the discussion off, Ayo introduced Ike who had come all the way from Enugu, and said that we would look at the Integrity, Democracy, Ethics and Accountability issues in the way that the Judiciary has comported itself since the last elections.  The first thing we should look at was the performance of the Judiciary in relation to elections,...

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IDEAs Episode 134 IDEAs Radio One Year after the vote: IDEAs in the Electoral Process .

Ayo Obe said that Elections are a key part of Nigeria’s Democracy.  Although they are not the only part, where there is dissatisfaction with elections and the electoral process, that dissatisfaction spreads throughout the polity.  Ayo said that she was not quite old enough to remember the elections of the 1950s and 1960s and so could not speak for...

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IDEAs Episode 133 IDEAs Radio “One Year after the vote: IDEAs in SECURITY”.

Ayo Obe said that it would surprise many that IDEAs was back on air after it was supposed to have ended last July, but noting that “It’s an ill wind that blows nobody good”, she explained that the ‘ill wind’ of the collapse in the value of the naira had brought the ‘good’ that allowed IDEAs to do a...

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IDEAs Episode 132 IDEAs Radio Bows Out: Final Episode Review

Chukwudi Ezugwu started by referring to the saying about “good things coming to an end”, to which Ayo Obe replied that it might be better to stick to “all things must pass”, as it might be rather bold to talk about IDEAs as “good things”.  Chukwudi said that regular listeners would know that the programme came up on Friday...

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IDEAs Episode 131 Bismarck Rewane on IDEAs issues in Subsidy Removal and Naira Convergence

andra introduced Ayo who intimated her that today’s was the penultimate broadcast of IDEAs Radio. The guest, Bismarck Rewane, was greeted by Ayo who went on to say that the new administration of President Bola Tinubu had been getting praised for its policies such as floating the Naira and removing the fuel subsidy, but that most of that praise was...

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IDEAs Epsiode 130 Nkoyo Toyo on Subsidy Removal and Palliatives

Chuwudi Ezugwu introduced the guest – Nkoyo Toyo, the Convener of the Labour Civil Society Front – and the topic, which he felt everyone would be very interested to hear: the removal of subsidy and the kind of palliatives that would be most useful. Ayo Obe feared that listeners may have been groaning at the idea of more talk about...

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IDEAs Episode 128 NBC’s power to impose fines struck down: what IDEAs issues arise?

Sandra Ezekwesili was full of beans and had ‘raised shoulders’ over the decision of the Federal High Court striking down the power of the National Broadcasting Commission to impose fines as she welcomed Ayo Obe for IDEAs this week, and Ayo’s guest, Lanre Arogundade, the Executive Director of the International Press Centre, Nigeria.

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IDEAs Episode 126 #BBOG’s Habiba Balogun on the 9th Anniversary of the Chibok Girls’ Abduction

IDEAs 14th April 2023 … #BBOG’s Habiba Balogun on the 9th Anniversary of the Chibok Girls’ Abduction. Ayo Obe said that today’s programme was going to be different from the usual election-related topics that IDEAs had been covering because the 14th of April marks a sad anniversary.  It is 9 years since the abduction of...

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IDEAs Episode 125 Ikeazor Akaraiwe Esq. SAN on Election Petitions

IDEAs 31st March 2023 … Ikeazor Akaraiwe Esq. SAN on Election Petitions Chukwudi Ezugwu said that today’s programme would be looking at Election Petitions in general, and their role in upholding the Integrity of Elections. Ayo Obe then introduced today’s guest, Ikeazor Akaraiwe SAN.  She said that it was known that the Independent National Electoral...

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IDEAs Episode 124 Paul James of YIAGA on the State Elections

IDEAs 24th March 2023 … Paul James of YIAGA on the State Elections Chukwudi Ezugwu introduced today’s guest, Paul James, the Manager of YIAGA Africa’s Elections Programme, who would be discussing last Saturday’s State elections, and looking at the Integrity and Ethics of the electoral umpire, and the lessons to be carried forward. Ayo Obe...

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IDEAs Episode 123 Ene Obi on the pre State Elections Environment

Today’s guest was Ene Obi, Convener of the Nigerian Civil Society Situation Room, and after Sandra Ezekwesili had kicked off the programme, Ayo Obe said that although we could not be sure that this was the last election in this cycle, since anything could happen. 

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IDEAs Episode 122 – Integrity Pressure Points In Nigeria’s Electoral Process

IDEAs 10th March 2023 … Sandra Ezekwesili Introduced the programme, saying that today, the discussion would be about the Integrity pressure points in Nigeria’s electoral process.  She started by asking Ayo Obe what was meant by Integrity in the electoral process? Ayo said that Integrity in the electoral process meant issues about whether the procedures...

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IDEAs Episode 121 – 3rd March 2023YIAGA’s Samson Itodo on the National Elections

Ayo welcomed Samson Itodo, the Executive Director of YIAGA, to the programme and referred to YIAGA’s Press Statement on the 2023 Presidential elections.  She said that looking at the Report and the election, she wanted to distinguish between the actual voting process and the Integrity of that – because the ‘I’ in IDEAs is for Integrity, while the other...

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IDEAs Episode 120 – Civil Society Situation Room’s Ene Obi on the eve of #NigeriaDecides2023

IDEAs Episode 120 – 24th February 2023 Civil Society Situation Room’s Ene Obi on the eve of #NigeriaDecides2023 Chukwudi Ezugwu introduced the programme by saying that Ayo Obe would be speaking to Ene Obi, and that he was sure that listeners were familiar with the Nigerian Civil Society Situation Room, of which she is the...

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