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The Ruga is a programme recently announced by the federal government to enable willing states to contribute large areas of land to the federal government for construction of animal husbandry settlements. In this episode, Segun discussed: What is Ruga? Why the contradiction between RUGA and National Livestock Transformation Plan? What is the way forward?

In the fourth instalment of the review of the presidential and federal legislative election, we discussed the losers of the election so far. We looked at Saraki, Akpabio, Kwankwaso, Akume, Ajimobi and Saraki

In the third instalment of the review of the presidential and federal legislative election, apart from APC and PDP no other party had up to 1% of the votes in the election. I discussed this with Derek and Yomi.

In the second instalment of the review of the presidential and federal legislative election, we discussed the turn out of voters for the election and the pattern of voting in different regions

Code of Conduct Bureau filed six counts of non-declaration of assets against the CJN on Friday Yomi and I attempted to interpret the position of the constitution and the Code of Conduct Bureau and Tribunal Act on this. We also weighed in on the political undertone and absurdity of the Learned Jurist's excuse for his default.

In last week roundup, we talked about the 8-day siege in Senator Dino Melaye's house. We also weighed in on the appointment of Amina Zakari as the Head, Presidential Election Collation Centre of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the rumour surrounding her relationship with President Buhari and lastly, we touched on the announcement of Chief Bola Ahmed Tinubu as Buhari's surrogate on the campaign train as the President wants to focus on governance

In this second instalment of a two-part series, we discuss the issues debated and we scored the debate based on what we thought of the delivery of the candidate.

In this instalment of a two-part series, we discuss the background information of the candidates and the selection process. We also discussed their opening statements and scored the candidates based on how we think they have delivered.

We examined the inability of elected Political office holders in Nigeria to relinquish power after the expiration of their tenure leading to Godfatherism and frivolously seeking reelection to other political offices. Yomi and I had a look at the danger it poses for our democracy, and suggestions to stem this. On the weekend roundup, Yomi commented on House of Reps accusation of Osinbajo of illegal approval of N5.8bn north-east intervention fund ad also Boko Haram attack in a Nigerian army base that left 100 of soldiers dead.

On the episode along with my co-host Yomi, we discussed the necessity of NYSC in contemporary Nigeria with respect to the recent happenings in the country. We turned our spotlight on cases surrounding the former minister of finance, Kemi Adeosun and the minister of information This episode talks about the