Moghalu Seen as 'Change' Candidate for President in Nigeria
Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka, one of Nigeria's best known and most admired citizens, this month endorsed 56-year-old Dr Kingsley Moghalu for president. It was a high-profile sign of the growing popularity of someone who is seen as the only viable alternative - if a long-shot one - to the candidates of the leading parties, both veteran politicians in their 70s.
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Nigeria: Kingsley Moghalu Emerges as Hope of Nigerians Desperate for Change
allAfrica, 15 February 2019
This month Nobel Laurate Wole Soyinka, one of Nigeria's best known and most admired citizens, and the Citizen Forum with which he is associated, endorsed Dr. Kingsley Moghalu for… Read more »
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Nigeria: Focus Is 'Economic Development', Not 'Economic Growth' - Presidential Candidate Moghalu
allAfrica, 15 February 2019
In response to a question about achieving such health goals as reducing high death rates from pregnancy and childbirth and from malaria, Nigerian Presidential candidate Kingsley… Read more »
Kingsley Moghalu (left) greeting Wole Soyinka after the Nobel Laureate endorsed Moghalu's candidacy for the Nigerian presidency.
Dr. Kingsley Moghalu, deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, speaking at the Woodrow Wilson International Center (file photo)
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Nigeria: Do Nigerians Want a Young President?
This is Africa, 15 February 2019
Since the return of democracy in 1999, Nigeria's burgeoning youth population has made the headlines come election time. This year's election, the sixth in the current 20-year-long… Read more »
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Nigeria: 2019 Presidential Election - Moghalu Reacts to Soyinka's Endorsement
Premium Times, 9 February 2019
The presidential candidate of the Young Progressives Party, Kingsley Moghalu, has described the endorsement of his candidature by Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka, as "humbling." Read more »
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Nigeria: 2019 Presidential Election - Wole Soyinka Endorses Kingsley Moghalu
Premium Times, 8 February 2019
Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka, has just sent PREMIUM TIMES the statement below endorsing a former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Kingsley Moghalu, for the February… Read more »
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